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 need of a law enforcing the protection of the Portuguese film industry.
Short note on the inexistance of Portuguese legislation on film industry.
A foretaste of Portuguese cinema's success in the year of 1930.
Notes on the educational potential of film.
On the potentials of sound film for the recording of Portugal’s oral traditions.
A protest on the fragmentation of a film about Angola as a way for exhibitors to enforcing the law.
Notes on a group of documentary films and on documentary cinema in general.