"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Fragment of newsreel or reportage about World War I with the label "Une réserve d'obusiers". The film content is just a pan from left to right which shows a long guns battery. The guns are aligned in...
Melodrama over het wel en wee van drie families tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
III. A study of the inhabitants as they pick almonds, including a lady "of low caste" (according to the shotsheet) a girl and a veiled lady of high caste. It is not clear whether these are Jewish or M...
Propaganda film describing the efficiency of the British naval airplanes and the training of cadets.
Beelden van soldaten in Berlijn en in een Rode Kruispost aan het front.
Opnamen van de natuur rond Berchtesgaden en het Koningsmeer (Königssee) in Beieren.
'WOMEN WINNING THE WAR: Women and boys working in munition factories replace men who are able to join the colours. Working on capstan lathes and large vertical drilling machines'. A brief scene of a b...
An indignant message of Bárta (laborer) to his friends Janda (smith) and Tomeš (farmer) before leaving for the front: "We are Czechs, we are Slavs! And they want to rush us against Slavs!"