The Pictures That Moved: Australian Cinema 1896-1920 (1968)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 45M
Director : Alan Anderson
Sinopse
Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films, to the controversy of "The Story of the Kelly Gang" and the success of "The Sentimental Bloke".
A jovem Flor de Lótus vê um homem inconsciente flutuando na água perto da praia e o socorre. O homem é Allen Carver, um americano visitando a China. Os dois se apaixonam e Carver promete levar a jovem chinesa com ele. Após ser desencorajado por amigos, Carver volta sozinho para os EUA, causando tristeza em Flor de Lótus. Alguns anos depois, os dois se reencontram e a reapromixação será difícil para ambos. “ The Toll Of The Sea” é considerado o primeiro filme colorido feito em Hollywood e o segundo realizado em Technicolor.
Parentes de um milionário excêntrico reúnem-se em sua mansão assustadora no 20º aniversário da sua morte para a leitura de seu testamento.
Molly (Mary Pickford) é a mais velha dos órfãos que moram em uma fazenda. O dono do local, o malvado e manco Sr. Grimes (Gustave Von Seyffertitz), além de explorar a mão-de-obra infantil, vez ou outra ameaça jogar uma criança para que afunde no pântano. O que vai mudar tudo é o arriscado negócio que ele fez: combinar o sequestro de uma criança, a filha do rico Dennis Wayne (Roy Stewart), que fica sob os cuidados de Molly, que, assim como outras personagens de Mary, é sofredora, porém decidida e corajosa. Ela não hesita em enfrentar Ambrose (‘Spec’ O’Donnell), o mimado e glutão filho dos “patrões”.
Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc.
Na década de 1920, o ator George Valentin é uma estrela do cinema mudo, mas sua carreira está ameaçada pela chegada do cinema sonoro. Enquanto ele luta para manter seus filmes, Peppy Miller, uma coadjuvante, alcança a fama.
Em um mundo apocalíptico, Max Rockatansky acredita que a melhor forma de sobreviver é não depender de ninguém. Porém, após ser capturado pelo tirano Immortan Joe e seus rebeldes, Max se vê no meio de uma guerra mortal, iniciada pela imperatriz Furiosa que tenta salvar um grupo de garotas. Também tentando fugir, Max aceita ajudar Furiosa. Dessa vez, o tirano Joe está ainda mais implacável pois teve algo insubstituível roubado.
Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters. The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out 10 months ago and hasn't been seen since. Mother-daughter relations hit bottom when Rhia takes in Doyle, her father in-law, who is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. Doyle turns Lou's initial hostility around with exciting tales of his South Seas adventures. But coursing deepest in his mind are fractured memories of Annie, his late wife. Before long, Doyle "sees" Annie in Lou and imagines he is courting her all over again.
Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) é um jovem advogado tributarista. Sua vida sofre sobre uma estranha reviravolta após se envolver num caso em defesa de um grupo de aborígenes, que foram acusados de assassinato. Burton começa a ter visões perturbadoras e visões fantasmagóricas de Chris (David Gulpilil, Walkabout), um dos homens envolvidos no assassinato.
A street artist (Charles Lane) rescues a baby girl (Nicole Alysia) after her father is murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately he ends up in a horse drawn chase of the murderers.
The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.
Primeira adaptação do cinema da obra de Dante Alighieri, "A Divina Comedia". O maior épico italiano da sua época, uma fantástica viagem dentro do universo de Dante e das gravuras de Gustave Doré, retratando com grande perfeição os anjos, demônios e o próprio Lúcifer. Uma produção monumental que durou três anos de filmagens, utilizou incríveis efeitos especiais e cenários gigantescos. Na versão reeditada recentemente, ganhou trilha sonora do Tangerine Dream.
Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity Blake is a poor orphan all too familiar with the harsh realities of the real world. These two young women both fall in love with John, love which is complicated by the fact that he is still married to (though separated from) a bad wife.
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, discovering their secrets and lives may be better shared.
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
