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...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....
1. Intertitle: Filmed by the German „Lichtbild“ company, inc., Berlin SW 19, in the factories of the Fessler (Pforzheim) Brothers, Pforzheim. 2. Intertitle: The Fessler belt is a belt made of roll...
The film opens with an unrelated scene of Australian troops exploding a shell or mine in a training exercise. 1st Spahi Cavalry Regiment 'charges' the camera. One of the men demonstrates steadiness by...
The Higher Invention Committee attends kite flying and watches an airship in the sky.
A common motto of the three friends before leaving for the front: "The world must protect democracy and small nations against "boots" of Prussian militarism!"
A message of Tomeš (farmer) to his friends after homecoming from the front and establishing of the independent Czechoslovak Republic: "None of us wants war! But woe to anyone who wants to hurt Czecho...
Little Momi’s father has left to be a soldier and his letters are eagerly anticipated by his family at home. In one of them he recounts the adventure of little highlander Berto, who saved his mother...
Popular Czech singer and actor Karel Hašler in the film "Písničkář/Ballad-Singer" (1932). Main character - a postal director Hala (Karel Hašler) hides his ardent patriotism beneath his shield as...