The Johnsons in the first talking African jungle movie play jazz records in between filming animal sequences. Two rhinos charging towards the camera is the highlight. Thousands of flamingos and pygmy life are also included.
American animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a team of native helpers roam the area from Northern Johore to Perak in search of interesting wild animals, reptiles and birds. Hoping to find a tiger, Buck captures a monitor lizard and a bla...
Histoire du soldat inconnu (1932) is made up of footage from 1928, when an anti-war treaty had been signed. The filmmaker uses intellectual montage to make the point that militarism and the institutions that support it are clearly going to make mincemeat of the treaty’s ideals. The approach is pretty simple, juxtaposing marching soldiers with religious processions. At that poin...
"Beginning with conventionally beautiful mountain vistas, the film slowly moves toward the area around the sacred grotto and finally to shots within the grotto itself. There are shots of shop-windows full of Lourdes souvenirs (including candy made with holy water from the shrine), but these come in fairly late, avoiding a blatant focus on the commercialization of the site and t...
The first audio documentary, in which stage the rally, first used the effect of direct cinema – Anthem of electrification, the establishment of electricity to the numerous examples of its use, the national anthem first five-year labor enthusiasm.
A chemist is working on a very important and secret new formula in a quite isolated country house. He believes someone is wanting to rob this formula and informs a friend, who is a detective. One night when several guests are in the house, the formula is stolen indeed and the chemist is about to be poisoned with a drug out of a lacquered box.
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家树得知刘将军被杀,恐被株连,乃走天津,依其叔父。叔父因误会,致书伯和夫妇,请商何父令丽娜与家树速缔良缘。家树得知,乃将与凤喜、秀姑之情史告知丽娜。伤心人丽娜随即返京,在车上邂逅沈国英旅长。丽娜回京后开一盛大跳舞会,邀沈国英等参加,丽娜即席致词,宣布将与诸君小别,另做新人。
政局变,军阀倒,家树无所顾忌,复返北京,不料被欲为刘将军报仇的刘将军旧部劫持。寿峰父女将家树救出。家树到凤喜家,见凤喜痴疾日剧,乃延医诊治。后家树、寿峰众人送凤喜入疯人院。家树至西山寿峰、秀姑父女居处,意外遇到亦居此地的丽娜。寿峰称当晚即与秀姑出发归隐山东。是夕丽娜留家树晚餐,忽一花球自窗外掷入,上系红帛,题曰关秀姑敬贺。