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Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Unknown Director

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Reawakening perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Documentary about the physical and vocational rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.

Dir: C.L. Chester

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Willy Mullens

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Horseshoe and Bridal Veil perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Towns on the Zuidersee in the Netherlands.

Dir: Alberto Botelho

A view of the Carnival festivities in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as covered by filmmaker Alberto Botelho in 1920.

Dir: Konstantin Derzhavin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Den doode steden aan de Zuiderzee perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: C.L. Chester

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Ya'ackov Ben-Dov

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of O Que Foi O Carnaval de 1920! perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William F. Adler

A travelogue/documentary including explorations of the fauna and people of Siam, New Guinea, and Java, with interpolations of an apparently fictitious encounter between the filmmakers and cannibalistic natives of Frederick Henry Island in the South Pacific.

Dir: Vassil Gendov

The university student and a girl are in love. They make dates, visit a party shop. The girl's aunt opposes their love. She has decided to marry her off to a rich suitor from whose uncle she receives a telegram that his nephew will be arriving from Gabrovo. While Aunt Kera is asleep in the winter garden the young people meet. The girl informs her lover about the forthcoming visit. The student decides to cunningly discredit the suitor of her choice before the aunt. He changes clothes with his friend and poses as the expected wooer. In the conversation with Aunt Kera he feigns nervous tics. Scared she turns him out of the house. After a second change of clothes the two young man carry on the farce. The friend playing the part of the of the mentally deranged suitor raves round the garden, screaming and threatening. The student who happens to pass by chases him away. Having passed himself off for a hero in the aunt's eyes, he finally gets her blessing. The young couple fall into each other's arms.