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...
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...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
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...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
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 ...
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
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.
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
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 ...
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
The film is constructed on a contemporary requirement tied to the wartime situation, seeing as Italy had gone to war with Austria in May 1915. At the end of the wedding ceremony the procession o...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
French language version of a newsreel item on the town of Amiens after the German failure to capture it, showing a pan over the town and the outside of the cathedral, Western Front, 5th-7th April 1918...
First lead role for the gentle giant Maciste (original name Bartolomeo Pagano), who stole the scene to the leaders and the princesses in "Cabiria". The period and the location are different, but not t...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...