I. Orly Airport near Paris, France. Bulgarian delegates, led by Todor Zhivkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, get off the plane. French President Charles de Gaulle is among the greeters. In front of the ...
Men in swimming trunks jump one after the other from a wooden jetty into the Lahn. In the first half of the film, the footage runs backwards. The film ends with a close-up of Günther Leitz (1914-1969...
Amateur footage from Germany, filmed in 1920: Undernourished children in a convalescent home (presumably in Berlin-Buch), medical care of children with rickets, street scenes – some of Potsdamer Pla...
Van Duylen, representative of a diamond syndicate, brings to Amsterdam the "Koh-I-Noor II", the largest diamond ever found. In one of the city's oldest diamond-cutting establishments it is cleft and t...
Jess Newton, expecting to spend her holidays alone at her boarding school in England, receives a letter from her father asking her to come to him. Since the death of his wife, Mr Newton has been prosp...
Reel 1: In the introduction, the film separates the old and the new Bern. The old part: Münster cathedral, fountains, streets in the old town. The new part: Gymnasium Kirchenfeld, Hotel Savoy. 2nd p...
During the First Balkan War in 1912 the Serbian reconnoitre troop was bombed. The middle aged sergeant Đorđe saves his neighbour, seriously injured young man Gavrilo, the Cavalry second lieutenant. ...
Scenes on 35mm film from the first modern performance of an ancient Greek tragedy staged in Epidaurus after 2500 years! Sophocles's Electra by the National Theater was directed by Dimitris Rontiris. K...
Wide shot of men sitting at a table in a hospital room. Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is standing at the head of the table with raised arms, speaking to the group. Sitting to the left of him is Vy...
Five men sit on logs in front of a barn. From the left: Janda (smith) and his son, Bárta (laborer) and his son and Jeník Tomeš. Nearby Jeník stands his father - Tomeš sen. Sons are dressed in the...
Medium shot of several men sitting around a table with a half loaf of bread and a carafe of water. On the left sits Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) with a bandaged neck. To the right sit Vyskočil (...
Wide shot of a café. Austrian officers sit around tables on the right and left (second from left is actor Jaroslav Marvan). Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) is standing next to the table on t...
Gabriel Hart (actor) as Karel Havlíček Borovský. "A father is showing his son a book containing pictures of famous Czech men. During the night the boy has a dream. He goes to heaven and an angel le...
View of a dance café. Several couples are dancing on the left, including First Lieutenant Schranel (actor: Vladimír Pospíšil-Born) and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová). To the right of th...
Wide shot of a church interior that has been converted into a military hospital. Wounded soldiers sit or lie on hospital beds lined up along the walls. Other patients sit at the two tables standing in...
Wide shot of a corridor. Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) is standing on the right with an arm in a cast and bandaged eyes. Infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk) is standing next...