Poul is a struggling magician looking for just the right trick to take him to the big time. To get the money to acquire 'The Sawed-in-Half Lady' from Frankfurt he makes a deal with Arne, a shifty insu...
The sculptor Benno Schotz at work in his studio in Glasgow, and demonstrating his technique. The film examines his working methods and the themes running through his work. Much of his work is as a m...
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...
Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
Mr. Anestis, an old coachman, doesn’t want to change professions, even though cars now rule the road. He lives together with an orphan girl, Annoula, who was the beloved of a boy named Nikos, who ha...
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 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...
26407 - Tyrol - Cantonnement Autrichien
4012 - Les Flandres - Inondées (Belgique)
Le Vieil-Armand - côte allemand (Hartmannswillerkopf, Vosges, Haut-Rhin)
1426 - Verdun - Fort de Tavannes (Département Meuse, Lorraine)
1399 - Bois-le-Prêtre - Observatoire (Priesterwald, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine)
Mont Haut - Cimetière (Département Marne)
4209 - Verdun - Tunnel á Tavannes (Département Meuse, Lorraine)
1416 - Releve des morts
A crowd is standing on a deserted plain. One man is considered a threat to the others because of his arm, which is hitting him uncontrollably. The crowd has to deal with the problem. After discussing ...
Drozdov talk of his understanding of 'freedom'. He compares present freedom as it used to be in the Ukraine; he describes how close friendships, earlier as now, create a space in which a feeling of fr...
Christian IX (b. 1818) died 29 January 1906. He was king of Denmark for 42 years. With his many family ties to the royal houses of Europe, he was known as 'Europe's father-in-law'. After castrum dolor...
With a slight bow to Cornell Woolrich's mystery novel Rendezvous in Black, this crime thriller deals with a series of murders that at first do not seem to be in any way inter-connected. Gradually, a p...
Opstandelsen brings the zombie apocalypse into the house of God. Simon's three siblings gather at his funeral - where all hell breaks loose as the undead rise from their graves, driving the siblings d...
Luca Comerio is perhaps the greatest documentary filmmaker in Italian silent cinema. War films have an important place within his immense production, in particular the ones dedicated to the Italo-Turk...
Footage (without intertitles) on the equestrian statue of King Albert I: inauguration of the statue, Belgian flag, dignitaries, Karel Aubroeck while working in his studio.
Young couple on Sunday morning: the man plays the tuba in the bed, his wife struggles with the housework in the old building. He proposes to have breakfast at a friendly couple. There, the proudly wif...