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On a stage featuring a backdrop decorated with plants and flowers, a girl performs a series of magic tricks. The short ends with a phantasmagoria of women, flowers and the final apotheosis. This film forms part of what is known as 'cinema of attract…
Set against a black backdrop, a troupe of acrobats of varying ages, dressed as and playing the part of Japanese people, perform a series of impossible balancing exercises that defy the laws of gravity. This film forms part of what is known as 'cinem…
Set in a drawing room, a magician performs a series of magic tricks in which people are seen to appear and disappear, change costume, replicate and change from men to women. He is assisted by several people, including acrobats, clowns and dancers. The f…
On a stage with an oriental backdrop, a Japanese magician performs a series of magic tricks in which he makes a number of characters appear and disappear, who go on to dance around the stage with colourful parasols. Finally, a large butterfly appears whic…
Married couple, Laure and Bertrand, arrive at a hotel where everything is automated through the use of control panels. Everything is working fine until an inebriated hotel employee begins to fiddle with one of the control panels, thereby causing chaos in …
A pair of shoplifters are seen stealing food from a grocery store. They head to a field to eat the food and then realise they have nothing to drink, so they decide to return to the shop to steal something. The shopkeeper, meanwhile, has connected his prod…
Gringoire and his wife, Claudine, have an argument and Gringoire storms out of the house. Claudine follows him but cannot persuade him to return. Peevishly, he sits down in the middle of a field where a sorceress appears to him and tries to tempt him with…
Set inside a room made to look like an art studio, a sculptor works the clay prepared by his assistant onto a frame hanging on the wall, and deftly moulds a series of faces depicting a variety of characters. This film represents part of Chomón's evo…
Standing on a moon, a woman picks white costumes from the stars which, when she shakes them, turn into harlequins. The harlequins fall to earth and there begin to dance, initiating a series of transformations, until they change back into harlequins. The…
Girls, nymphs, fairies and demons appear and disappear as they dance and interact with each other in front of a backdrop featuring large flowers on a black background. This film forms part of what is known as 'cinema of attractions', successor t…
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Soldiers and civilians inspect the wreckage of a tri-engine bomber shot down by the Republican air force. The narrator points out that none of the five crew members were able to parachute out a…
Laya Films and Film Popular documentary produced during the Spanish Civil War, based on a compilation of ESPANYA AL DIA [SPAIN TODAY] news pieces, from the documentary A DAY AT THE ARAGON FRONT and another unidentified documentary about the defence of Mad…
ESPANYA AL DIA [SPAIN TODAY], the Laya Films and Film Popular newsreel produced during the Spanish Civil War made up of the following reports: 1. SECTOR OF ARGANDA. GERMAN TANKS CAPTURED FROM THE ENEMY Republican soldiers inspect a number of German ta…
ESPANYA AL DIA [SPAIN TODAY], the Laya Films and Film Popular newsreel produced during the Spanish Civil War made up of the following reports: 1. VALENCIA. HUMOROUS EXHIBITION Exhibition of 'Ninot' effigies for the Valencian 'Falles' …
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Images of the conscripts loyal to the Republican cause from the Aragon region carrying out weapons drills in training barracks.
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Indian Congress Party leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, is received by Government of Catalonia President, Lluís Companys, at the Palau de la Generalitat government building. Pictures of the visit, as w…
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. A group of British Labour MPs visit the Catalan Parliament, where they are received by the Spanish Parliament President, Diego Martínez Barrio, and Catalan Parliament President, Joan Casanovas.…
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Images of an interview between Vyacheslav Molotov, the USSR's Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and Marcelino Pascua, while he was the ambassador to Moscow. The narrator no…
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Passive defence training drills against a potential toxic gas air strike in Prague. Civilian simulation drills. Military and civilian units with gas masks, care for the wounded and decontaminat…
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Construction of protection measures for the Gothic columns of the Palau de la Generalitat government building. Temporary walls under construction to protect the columns from bombings.
Laya films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Images of an anti-aircraft artillery reflector and soldiers of the Popular Army loading ammunition and distributing weapons following the taking of Teruel.
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Exhibition of paintings and sculptures as evidence of the continuation of daily life in the rearguard. One of the pictures is a portrait of the anarchist leader, Buenaventura Durruti.
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. The third plenary session of the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) political party is being held at the organisation's headquarters. A number of delegates are seen speaking in a small…
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. A group of young people place flowers at the monument to Dr Domènec Martí Julià, an active force for the social movement within Catalan politics and founder of the Unió Catalanista political pa…