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Chi vola vale e vince [Who Flies Is Worth and Wins]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Renzo Renzi

Description:

documentario "sull'avioraduno universitario di Bologna, svoltosi alla presenza del Duce"—Littoriali del cinema, Merano, 1939

documentary "on the air rally of the University of Bologna, held in the presence of the Duce"-Littoriali del cinema, Merano, 1939


Quan la gana apreta! = [When the Appetite Tightens!]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Lluís Gibert Romeu

Description:

Documentary about how a wealthy family from Barcelona spends the last year of the Spanish Civil War, from the Francoist point of view. The film includes very rare footage of everyday life during the war, as well as reenacted scenes shot after the end of the conflict, and the use of stop motion and archival materials.


Arrival of Evacuees

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Lorrimer

Description:

"Young evacuees from London wait in the centre of Welwyn Garden City" (EAFA Database).


At “The Fisheries”

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"A group of four adults (including Eunice Alliott) look at/ stand close to a motor boat on a river; three of the adults with a small dog board the boat; as Eunice Alliott approaches boat, the man gets out and helps her board; the boat leaves the jetty and heads away; the boat returns to the jetty; the man helps the women disembark; the group walk up steps onto a lawn’ (EAFA Database).


City of Franconia, A

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eustace Alliott


Cinci

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Michele Gandin

Description:

"a soggetto"/fiction film


Città Nemica, La [The Enemy City]

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Renzo Renzi

Description:

Fiction


Circuito degli assi [Circuit of the Aces]

Date produced: 1939


Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Record of a trip to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the surrounding area, preceded by scenes from visits to Rüdesheim am Rhein, Wiesbaden (possibly) and the Linderhof Palace near Ettal" (EAFA Database).


New York World’s Fair

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Cyrus Pinkham

Description:

"A clever, artfully-shot, and carefully-edited amateur film of the 1939 New York World's Fair." oldfilm.org


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