Portrayal of 3 companies from the North of Portugal: jewellery making, fish canning industry, meat factory.
Incomplet. Bull herdsmen on horseback control herds of cows and bulls. Theyr prepare them to bullfights, stimulating their fierceness, train them in a ring and brand them in an ox-stall.
Incomplet. The architectural heritage, mainly of religious nature, and the industrial and commercial aspects of Barreiro.
The quarries of Pero Pinheiro, Sintra. Views of the work in the quarry and its facilities.
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.
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.
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Portrait of the film director
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Fim poster.
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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.
Commentary on the film work of Artur Costa de Macedo.
Film review of 'Alfama, velha Lisboa'.
Manuel Antunes Amor reports on his documentary works in the East.