Uncensored silent color footage of the fires and the aftermath of the saturation incendiary night bombing runs that destroyed Hamburg on 07-28-1943, causing the death of over 50.000 mostly unidentified civilians and more than a million homeless. Original montage.Calling “fair use” for the soundtrack, added in 2007 by ROMANO-ARCHIVES, performed by Gregor Samsa.
Before there was Lucy and Ethel, there was Jane and Carol; follow their adventures in this campy and slightly painful early infomercial sponsored by Bemberg House of Rayon.
Southwestern U.S. travelogue flies around in modern 1930s airplanes, stopping off at Albuquerque and an Arizona dude ranch, all the time focusing on fashions worn by its cargo of aspiring Paramount starlets. Excellent pre-World War II fashion footage in Kodachrome, plus documentation of affluent tourist destinations. Produced and directed by Harry D. Donahue. With Mary Martin.
Newsreel footage of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother ),and the young princesses,Elizabeth and Margaret, in front of the cameras at Windsor Castle.
1937: The Luftschiffbau Zeppelin 129 Hindenburg. Almost unedited new color footage of the airship, including the Hindenburg burning.
Fan made trailer for William A. Wellman’s Wings. Won oscar for best production. It is more melodramatic than this trailer let think and also a bit dated. In my opinion it is not a great great film, too melodramatic for my taste, there’s a dozen of better films made that same year. But it is entertaining. If you think you can handle it, it’s maybe worth a look.
A clip illustrating the excitement in the motion picture business over the discovery of sound.
Enjoy the lampooning of Hindenburg, Coolidge, Al Smith and Will Rogers – great caricature work.
1918 ushered in mutinies within the French Army. General Petain, Hero of Verdun, was assigned the task of smoothing the way between the Poilus and the French leadership.
Period film clips accompanied by an admirable British voice-over performer explaining what was involved in the massive effort to put two-million Doughboys in the field.
Not exactly a “fashion video” as we have come to know them, but this is interesting silent film footage from 1917 depicting the fashions of that year -featuring fashion models who clearly have not skipped a meal.
Selected scenes from The Outlaw. Includes the controversial cleavage shot that outraged the censors in 1953. How times have changed
n 1914-15 on the Western Front, Germany drove her armies into Belgium and Luxembourg, leaving a trail of atrocities on a scale never witnessed before, giving rise to the legend of the “Hun”, while France fougth for her survival at the battle of the Marne.
