Documentary film on the colonial exhibition held in 1934 in Oporto. Images of the participants, pavilions, gardens, leisure areas, folk parades and of the most visited commercial stands.
Portuguese Youth parade in the celebrations of the 1st December (Independence Restoration Day).
Activities of Mocidade Portuguesa (“Portuguese Youth”): camping, sports demonstrations, marches, parade at Av. da Liberdade (Lisbon, 1938), meeting at the Jockey Club (1939).
Incomplet. The School of Cavalry and the field instruction: slope and entering the water in a horse exercises. As some slopes are almost vertical, fallings are inevitable.
The first public appearance of the organization.
Unedited footage. Images of the official opening of the building, located in Av. Da Liberdade, Lisbon, with the presence of the President of the Republic. Shots of the car exhibition.
The textile industry in Areosa, Oporto. Firemen exercises. A visit by the Indigenous Company of Mozambique (Landins of Mozambique).
Parade of the Mocidade Portuguesa (“Portuguese Youth”) and outdoor mass in the Jockey Club’s field, 1938.
The exteriors of the studios of the Oporto-based film company, Invicta Film.
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Film frame of Arthur Costa de Macedo's 'Homenagens aos soldados desconhecidos' ('Tribute to Unknown Soldiers'), 1921.
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Notes on the work of film director José Branco Gomes Barata.
Notes on the team work; set still of Fernandez Tomaz.
A letter to the periodical on the authorship of the film «Angola» (1930).
Criticism on the weaknesses of the Portuguese documentary films included by law in every cinema-shows.
On the film potential in the domain of tourism. An incentive for that type of film.
On some weaknesses of the protection law stipulating the inclusion of 100 m footage of Portuguese documentary films in commercial scéances.
Notes on the first film exhibitions in Portugal and on Portuguese early films.
Notes on the huge development of documentary film, namely in Germany.