Unedited footage. The footage depicts a release of bulls in the streets, which are then fight by several horsemen and bull herdsmen as a test to their fierceness ('tenta') in an open land in Vila Nova...
One of the earliest Portuguese films, by Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, frequently refered to as the first portuguese film director, shows the stunts of a trapeze artist in a garden.
Images on the arrival in Lisbon of the German Emperor Wilhelm II for an official visit.
Documentary film of the South Atlantic aerial crossing, from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922.
Touristic sites of the Graça area, in Lisbon: churches (Penha de França, S. Vicente de Fora, Graça), Flea market, J. de Castilho bust and Estrela d'Ouro neighbourhood.
Views of several locations in the North of Portugal: Melgaço and Viana do Castelo, the Senhora da Agonia Festivities, Lamego, the river Vouga railway line, the river Leça, Oporto and Gaia.
Amateur film; unedited footage. Images of the North of Portugal: a traditional parade, a horse show, a train on the banks of the Douro river, washerwomen, oxen carts, villagers and sheperds.
The monuments and landscapes visited by the group excursion.
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Portuguese film operator, Manuel Maria da Costa Veiga, remembers the first years of film exhibition in Portugal.
Weekly publication of cinematographic art.
Notes on the cinematographic work of Aníbal Contreiras and César de Sá.
Commentary on the scientific films’ enormous interest, namely those using chronophotography.
Notes on film’s potential in depicting reality with emphasis on some reels on WWI.
Commentary on the historical value of newsreels in terms of search and reconstructing of events.
Notes on the documentary films depicting submarine life, referring some technologies used.
Report on the departure of Augusto Claro to Africa and the reasons behind this departure.