Cinema - a hundred years ago
This gallery celebrates the World Day of Audiovisual Heritage 2025 with a journey into Europe’s film history from a century ago. Featuring films and images preserved in archives across the continent, it offers a glimpse into the creativity, innovation, and daily life captured on screen. These rare materials highlight the importance of safeguarding our shared moving image heritage for future generations. Explore this collection to rediscover the magic of cinema as it was experienced 100 years ago
28 genstande
In 1916, around Easter, in a Romanian village near the Siret river, two young men, Ion Strajeru and Ilie Paduraru, love the same girl, Ileana, the daughter of the local mayor. Ileana loves Ion, the most handsome and vigorous man in the village, and is eng…
Detailed speeded up shots of sprouting and growing plants (Japanese lily, beans, mustard, flax, garden anemone, daffodil, rose, viktoria regia).
A film about Skandinaviska Filmcentralen, a film company started by Lars Björck in 1915, later incorporated into Svensk Filmindustri following bankruptcy in 1922. A group of men and women of different ages pose in a garden for a group portrait. One coupl…
Life on board a cruise ship along the coast of Northern Norway.
Waxholm now has a fixed link with the mainland - the new bridge - the route of the new road 2. A Stockholm firm celebrates. Renowned drapers Harald Löfberg has recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. 3. A picture from Södermalmstorg Square, where worke…
Mr van den Heuvel, a cobbler, lives with his wife and two small children in a one-room hovel in a dingy alley. He wants to work, but is usually too tired and is continuously coughing. He ignores the advice of his doctor to go to a health centre. His littl…
Sequences of this film showing Mallorcan landscapes and monuments: the Serra de Ternelles in Pollença; in Palma we are shown the facade and the cloister of the convent of Sant Francesc, the Fish Market and the Consolat del Mar, the Jonquet neighbourhood; …
The film is documenting the European Ice Hockey Championship, which was held on the natural ice rings of Štrbské pleso and Starý Smokovec, the High Tatras. Before the match between Czechoslovakia and Austria we can see some ice hockey functionaries posing…
Legend of William Tell, and the struggle between the Swiss Cantons and the Austr ian overlords in the 14th century. (BFI)
Antoine Depage's funeral.
Lya de Putti in "Varieté" (1925)
Aquarell. 19,2 x 12 cm.
On the set: Günter Anders, Karl Freund and Robert Baberske around the Mitchell-Camera; in the front: Emil Jannings and Warwick Ward on the left, E. A. Dupont and interpreter Joe Rive on the right
The video shows the first five minutes of the film. Film synopsis: Two inmates are on their break in the jail courtyard when one of them, Boss, is called to the director′s office. Boss′ wife has appealed his case, asking for a pardon. Sentenced for murder…
The Berlin 'Wintergarten' in "Varieté" (1925)
Ceremony of the unveiling of the Dunfermline War Memorial by Sir Ralph Anstruther.
Educational film shot at the ‘Hooger Normaalinstituut van Landbouwhuishoudkunde, Laeken’, a school for rural domestic economy in Laken, in which a student shows the different steps of making bread. Attention is paid to the dosing of the ingredients, the m…
Coverage of the fire at the Kelvin Hall and Kelvingrove UF Church, Glasgow.
"I. Sofia. Military parade in front of the palace. Veterans from the liberation war with a flag. Men and women in traditional dress; students in uniform; little children; cavalry; bicycle riders. King Boris III observes the parade. // II. Intertitle:…
Title cards in vegetal paper.
Illustrierter Film-Kurier Nr. 199, 1925.
G. W. Pabst (second from left behind the camera), Guido Seeber (at the camera), Greta Garbo, Jaro Fürth (front, left to right) while shooting "Die freudlose Gasse" (1925)
Henry Stuart, Gräfin Agnes Esterhazy, Ilka Grüning, Karl Etlinger, Robert Garrison (front, left to right) in "Die freudlose Gasse" (1925)
The video shows the first five minutes of the film.
Skizze zu "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus" und dem Bühnenstück "König Lear" (1923)