Der angehende Schriftsteller Liam verdient sich seinen Lebensunterhalt als privater Tutor. Sein neues Engagement führt ihn auf das Anwesen des berühmten britischen Literaten JM Sinclair, dessen Sohn...
In ihrem Dokumentarfilm "La Paloma" porträtiert Sigrid Faltin kein Land, kein Milieu und keinen Menschen – sondern ein Lied. Der Evergreen "La Paloma" gehört zu den Lieblin...
Tom und sein Bruder Sid wohnen bei ihrer Tante im kleinen Städtchen St. Petersburg am Mississippi. Die Tante hat es nicht leicht, Tom zu einem anständigen jungen Mann zu erziehen. Er zieht es vor, m...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.