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.
Il piccolo Agenore (Ferdinande Guillaume) combina un sacco di guai all'amico di famiglia Ilario Mentecatti (Natale Guillaume).
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
Spanish writers and personalities devoted to their hobbies: reading, walking, painting or visiting a museum.
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Il circuito internazionale, riservato a "aeronavi, dirigibili e macchine volanti", si svolse a Brescia dal 5 al 20 settembre 1909. Alla manifestazione partecipano molti pionieri dell'aviazione: ...
Il film rievoca alcuni momenti dell'itinerario poetico dello scrittore triestino Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini, soffermandosi soprattutto sulla sua unica opera in versi, "Racconto d'amore", p...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
Il film è costruito su un'esigenza di attualità legata alla situazione bellica, visto che l'Italia era entrata in guerra contro l'Austria nel maggio del 1915. Alla fine della cerimonia di matr...
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...
Bidoni, attendente del colonnello X..., è un soldato molto distratto; questo difetto gli procura molte sgridate, ma è un giovane di cuore e perciò amato da tutti, specialmente dalla piccola M...
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...
Primo film da protagonista per il gigante buono Maciste (al secolo Bartolomeo Pagano) che in Cabiria aveva rubato la scena a condottieri e principesse. Cambia l'epoca e l'ambiente ma non lo spirito: n...
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...