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A short love story set in prehistoric times. A woman with two suitors shoots the one she doesn’t love with her bow and arrow, hitting him in the heart.Read More »

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.Read More »

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Grigorii Grebner and Anatolii Lunacharskii adapted Lunacharskii’s play (based on a story by Prosper Merimee) to the screen. Since it was yet another glaring example of the commercial “line” of the studio Mezhrabpom Rus’, “The Bear’s Wedding” was an odd effort indeed for the Commissar of Enlightenment to be associated with.Read More »

At the age of 13 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from his father’s shop. This became his first film Wigwam, with his own family as cast. Black Eagle, a bad indian, kidnaps the daughter of a farmer’s family. Flaming Arrow, played by the young Joris Ivens, saves the child from the kidnapper and brings it back to her family. No better conclusion than smoking a peace pipe.Read More »

A movement study in which all possible camera angles are tried out to observe the chaos of traffic flows in Paris.Read More »

The vertical lift-bridge in Rotterdam is the object of study in The Bridge. Normally it seems to be a very static object, but Joris Ivens made a very dynamic film out of it. “For me, the bridge consisted of a laboratory of movements, tints, forms, contrasts, rythms and the relationship between all these phenomena”. The film was immediately recognised as a masterpiece by international critics and colleague filmmakers; Joris Ivens was at once the most famous avant-garde filmmaker of the Netherlands.Read More »

Autotranslated from French:
At first glance, “The Apple Knockers and the Coke” seems like a small, low-profile film, designed to be eye-catching. But this splendid young woman on the screen seems familiar to us… According to the legend of the time, the one who has fun with an apple and a bottle of Coca-Cola would be Norma Jeane Mortenson, the future Marilyn Monroe. Information which will then be denied.Read More »

Synopsis (contains spoilers)
Jode McWilliams wants to marry Peg Owens, but her father (and Jode’s employer) won’t allow it. Jode writes Peg a love letter, but it is stolen by an Indian. The Indian delivers the letter to Peg. Her father finds the letter and kidnaps Jode, he escapes and marries Peg.Read More »

The White Hell of Piz Palü opens with the male protagonist, Dr. Johannes Krafft, who mountain climbs with his wife on their honeymoon. At the sight of an avalanche, he laughs arrogantly. Nature seems to retaliate, and moments later Dr. Krafft’s wife slips, plummeting down a small, deep crevice. The encounter with forces of nature initiates Dr. Krafft’s grief-driven search effort to rescue his wife.Read More »