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...
The making of patriotic films was not rare among FAI productions, and "Il bacio della gloria" is one example, together with "Armi e amori" (1913) and "Per la Patria!" (1915). “In the Speech fr...
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...
An uproarious comic, in which a novel duel by shrapnel is seen, the shells being strapped on the back of each combatant and hammers provided. The two have a most exciting time. Some clever trick...
Giuseppe Garibaldi was in America when he met and married Anita Ribeira. In 1848 Garibaldi decided to go back to Italy where war was imminent, and Anita followed him. In the fighting at Vascello...
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...
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...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
From the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 1918. We see the Holmenkollen ski jump arena, the ski jumpers and the audience. The royal family arrives, King Haakon VII, Queen Maud and Crown prince Olav.
Georges Lordier would direct more than 300 songs on film. Here about a soldier, falling in love with a girl. He flirts with her and later, on his room, he dreams about her while writing a letter.
Short item about the Van Berkel seaplane The Rotterdam engineering factory Van Berkel was well known for its meat-slicers and scales. But between 1918 and 1921, Van Berkel, commissioned by the Departm...
Jonas, the lord of the manor, and Ahti the Finn have been close friends for years. When Jonas's sister is attacked by a gypsy, Jonas and Ahti come to her aid, and the gypsy is badly beaten. Soon after...
Short war film. Being imprisoned, chained and shaven half bold, dragged through the snow. A man stayes behind and is saved by passengers. Yet later on, when he is recognised, he is shot down.
Claire is the beautiful daughter of the director of the steelworks. Revolutionaries storm the director's estate during a strike, and the director is killed. Worker Albert Fjeld remembers that Claire h...
Young Espen has been wrongfully accused of a theft at school. Worried that no one will believe him, he runs away from home, boards a ship and experiences many adventures. When he later escapes the clu...
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...
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 ...