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...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
De Duitse Invasie. 5e serie. Na de terugtrekking van het Duitse leger.
Filmportret van Gouda: typerende gebouwen, stadsbeelden en een kijkje in de kaarsenindustrie.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
A commercial for Rex Margarine with the Greek philosopher Diogenes as the main character.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
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...
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...
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...
Melodrama over het wel en wee van drie families tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
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.
The wooden huts of the hospital show various bomb blasts but little fire damage. Four coffins, covered in Union Jacks, are wheeled on trollies by soldiers. A single coffin, also covered with a Union J...
'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...