Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...
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...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
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...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Hans Albers, Hilde Hildebrand (left to right) in "Große Freiheit Nr. 7" (1944)
Hans Albers in "Große Freiheit Nr. 7" (1944)
The Last Supper Germany, 1933. On the day Adolf Hitler seizes power, the Jewish family Glickstein gathers for dinner in Berlin. Of course, political developments are a central topic of discussion - bu...
The Big Other Of all people, the television presenter Gregory, a convinced atheist, is sent to Rome to report on the upcoming election of the new pope. In the eternal city he meets Maria, with whom he...
A small village, somwhere in Khirgizia. It′s the home of shrewd electrician Svet-Ake, endearingly called "Mr. Light" by the other villagers. Allways willing to lend an ear to the probl...
FC Venus - Women with Balls Paul moves back from Berlin to his little home town Imma together with his girl friend Anna. He wants to support his old friend Steffen’s soccer club which is in dang...
Documentary about four software engineers who want to use their technical knowledge to put an end to their everlasting singlehood. For this purpose they seek the support of specialist Atanas: Despite ...
Report shot in 1977 focused on the coastal town of Calvia, one of the most important tourism centres in Spain. The leitmotif is the postcards that two tourists who are on holiday in Mallorca send to t...
Bishop Ordination in St. Gallen on 16.10.1938, all sequences show different people from the church, i.e. Cardinal Pacelli / later Pius XII, walking down a forecourt, that is bordered by other guests.