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- The ninth and final sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, the Skladanowsky Brothers themselves enter the stage, bow down and thank the audience for watching their compilation.
- The first brunette is outdoors, sweeping the street or a patio in front of a white wall, well lighted by the sunshine coming from the top left of the fixed camera; we may assume she is the Servant. A second brunette enters from the right, crosses to the left looking sideways at the Servant, and retraces her steps back - stepping over the dust and dead leaves collected by the work of the Servant; by the hat with a floral arrangement that tops her elaborate hairdo, the second woman is possibly the Lady. Both women are tall and well bodied, and are wearing white embroidered shirts and long dark round skirts that come to their ankles covered in black socks and dark leather shoes. The first Brunette menaces the second with the sweeping end of her broom but the second woman waves it aside with a large gesture of her left arm. The Servant throws away her tool, and they come to blows, slapping arms and forcing against each other by grabbing each other's shoulders and arms. Immediately, the fancy hat flies to the left of the camera, where it will remain for the rest of the action. The women quickly attempt to grab and pull hair. The Servant succeeds, and surprisingly wrenches off the wig the Lady was wearing, leaving her head partially bald. They keep churning against each other, until a Man enters from the right; he has a mustache and is wearing a gray round hat, black shoes, gray trousers and dark coat, approaches them, and forces the women apart with his arms. His clothes seem of bourgeois quality, so he may be the Lady's husband. His success in separating the battling women is at the cost of losing his own hat. The Servant goes after the Man, as the other brunette seems to understand her humiliating situation - and covers the top of her bald head with both hands clasped above. However, seeing how the Servant and the Man are now fighting, she seems amused, and laughs. The Lady comes forward and helps the Servant to shove the Man away. Without respite, the two women re-start battling again, and one grasps the sharp contrast between the «bald» Lady and the Servant's waved, waist long, massive mane of disheveled hair. The battle goes on, with the women waving their arms at each other (and laughing out of character). The Man gives up his good scout action, bends to pick up his hat, dusts it off, and replaces it on his head. As the Man leaves through the right, the two women let their arms fall by their sides, and stop the battle.
- A large number of workers, mostly young women, leave by the front door of their work place at lunch time. The building has an impressive colonnaded facade, and is located at 181, Santa Catarine St., Porto - one of the city's main streets. A passengers' horse cart crosses from right to left of the screen, and a few seconds after an ox cart carrying merchandise crosses in the opposite direction. All the while, workers keep leaving the factory, giving a sense of a large work force.
- In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and trousers and white plimsolls is doing acrobats in a trapeze in the center of the area. Behind it, a pair of men in similar dress seem to be carrying barbells from one place to the other, rather then exercising with them.
- The film has two parts: the first shows the train arriving at Cais do Sodré provisional station, where uniformed porters and railways personnel are awaiting it; and the second part shows the same train arriving to Cascais station where a crowd of men and women in fashion clothes, some carrying umbrellas against the sun, literally fill in the station's platform, ready to embark.
- Two young women, a Blonde with her hair parted in the middle of her head, and a Brunette with curly hair, both wearing white shirts, are sitting on chairs at a kitchen table, happily eating ice cream from a plate held between them by the brunette. Each girl uses her own spoon. Then, they start feeding each other to the mouth with their spoons, as if the other young woman was a baby. When one misses her gesture, and the ice scream spills onto the other's shirt, they start quarrelling, and the action degenerates in a sticky food fight that goes past the brunette using her advantage, and slapping the plate on the blonde's face...
- A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the close left to the camera. A few toddlers also follow in the same orderly line, along their nurses. The scene empties. In the last three seconds, a toddler presumed escaping from the scene to the left re-enters the scene, and walks back to the right by himself.
- The scene is a bedroom with classic flower patterned wallpaper, half a dozen small frames and a single bed to the left and a fireplace with a porcelain clock to the right. To the far right of the scene there is a chair and (not seen in the video transcript, probably) a table. The floor is covered by a large Persian rug and, in the middle of the room, conspicuously suspended from the ceiling, is a large punching ball and a couple of wire pulleys. A brunette is sleeping on the bed, wakes and stands up, dressed in a past the knee skirt and a sleeveless shirt. The girl should be a Physical Culture maniac, as without caring for her long hair, she starts the morning exercises. First, the Girl makes a biceps pose, then punches the ball in a fast, powerful frenzy, until the ball is caught up (off camera, either pulled by its string or accidentally caught on the pulleys' wires). Then, she picks up two clubs (the sort used in circus by hand dexterity artists) and plays with them in arm extension movements, whirling the clubs about. After putting the clubs down, she pulls at the springy wires, only to stop that and do a couple of flexing poses, arms and legs, and bending at the waist, first facing the camera, than with her back to it. The morning exercises end with a couple of push-ups on the right arm, facing the camera, followed by a couple of leg extensions.
- A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.
- Along the road that borders Campo Grande, two lines of people stand for hours to watch the carriages pulled by horses (with tails cut short), horsemen, and numerous motor cars with nobles and bourgeoisie mingling in a sedate «flower battle» that was becoming the city's «in thing» during the Carnival (Shrove Tuesday). One line of cars was northbound, the other southbound, and sometimes a lady or a gentlemen would throw some flours at those on the opposite line.
- Another boring evening at the Baron's home; he sits and reads a magazine, while his wife sits across the reading table, reading a newspaper. The housemaid enters, bringing a message from Franz, who convenes the Baron to an urgent meeting at the Club. Excusing himself, and thoroughly kissing his wife good-evening, the Baron leaves - to meet some lady of the night in the club's private room, with champagne and a sofa for two. At home, the Baroness gets bored, until she has an idea, soon put to practice. She sends a man a letter, signed Divine Lola, giving him rendez-vous at a discreet pension. The modern Eve is not taking her husband's infidelities sitting down. She lays in her undershirt on a bed inviting her lover in, in a long embrace.
- Three young women are smiling and playing in a lake, their nude bodies reflecting in the water, when a forest watcher appears from the wood, and chases them away. They get out of the water, pick their clothes from tree branches, and move away before putting them on. The bearded man seems to be shy, but he is chasing after them through the wood, anyway. the circular movement of that water.
- In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The pasha claps hands, and a servant comes to his bid. The lord is going to smoke from his water-pipe while he buys some new slave girls. The servant calls the seller and his two henchmen, who bring forth four girls in patterned burnooses. The first is totally undressed [facing the Arab, not the camera], and sent into the tent; the next girl gets topless, and also sent into the tent; the third is forced to undress by the henchmen, and also sent inside. The fourth, apparently a younger girl, is dismissed by the Arab after showing her small, firm breasts, and she goes back with the henchmen. Follows an argument over the price, and finally the slave master goes away, happy. The servant must help the pasha up, and the lord goes to his tent. The curtain falls over the door - and stays - and stays.
- Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons]. In a sunny day, on a lawn in the woods, three nude, young brunettes with little flower arrangements on their hair are playing a succession of three dexterity games: throwing and catching three arcs with the use of a thin long hook, jumping the rope (soon replaced by a long piece of light cloth), and using the arcs as hoops for a bit of croquet with appropriate mallets and balls.
- The artist studio is decorated with a rug, a chaise longue, a small table, a plinth, a couple of copies of classic sculptures, a vase with flowers, a few prints on the walls, and on the wood paneled lower half of the wall, an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The artist is wearing a white shift over his grey trousers, shirt and necktie, and he is wearing black shoes. With hammer and chisel, he applies the last touches on his last piece of sculpture - the three graces, standing nude on a rectangular podium covered with a white bed-shit. He steps back, contemplates his work, and rejoices on the beauty he has achieved. He goes out momentarily, and brings a bottle of champagne and a glass; before drinking, he makes a toast to his finished statue. He drinks, smokes a cigarette, and contemplates his work - until he falls asleep on the chaise longue. Obly then do the three graces stir, and tip-toe around their creator. One even dares to approach her lips to the artist's, and they dart back to their static positions. The artist wakes, throws kisses at the triple statue, kneeling in front of it, then drinks some more, and gets back to sleep. When he wakes up again, it seems he had some idea during his sleep; he takes the hammer and chisel again, and rectifies again the elbow of one the graces.
- Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path. (From a piece of grey cloth over the entrance to the cave, two 8-pointed white stars hang incongruously: the Production company's logo.) A pan hangs from a tripod. A girl in a colorful dress arrives with a Bucovina shepherd dog, and starts dancing in front of the men. First, half of the men go, then the others and the girl leave. Only one man stays, taking care of the food being prepared in the pot. Snivelling from their hiding place, a robber jumps him, and knocks him out with a blow. Three thugs join him, and they take whatever they find in the cave (guns). The dog comes back, and sits a while near the fallen cook. The Arabs return, and are alarmed at the robbery, and the killing of their cook. Meanwhile, somewhere in the forest, five girls reach a pond covered with moss, disrobe, and enter the water. Three are wearing headbands, but one takes hers off before getting wet. Refreshed now, the girls sit on towels on the grass to sundry - but they are attacked by the gang of robbers, and forced to follow them, leaving their clothes behind. One girl manages to escape, but she is hunted by two robbers. She jumps into the lake and swims away to the middle of it. The two men seem to be afraid of wetting their feet, and chose to fire their guns at her, but the girl escapes the shooting by diving deep into the lake, and they miss.
- A photographer tries to manipulate a woman into a sexy photo shoot. When she refuses, he finds a more obliging model and takes a series of nude photos. When men line up to buy them, a woman objects.
- A young woman and her maid go for a stroll in the park. The maid goes away, and the girl, siting alone in her folding bank, starts feeling the effects of the heat. After a look around to make sure that she is alone, she strips naked, and has a refreshing bath. While she is at it, a middle-aged couple approaches and decides to rob the girl's clothes. The woman strips her own, poor peasant's clothes, and dons on quickly the girl's dress; they leave in a hurry. The girl is distressed when she finds that she has only her undershirt to cover herself. A policeman wearing a white casket appears before the girl can dress, and she runs away, hunted by the policeman. Nearby, a man in a white suit and Panama hat is having a picnic with his family, greets a passing friend, and offers him some refreshment. Before they can toast, they're trample on by the fugitive girl, and the policeman close by. They all stand up and join the chase. A bearded man in a dark suit is out for a stroll in the park, and smoking a cigarette. Out of the woods comes the nude girl, running at him, and pleading for help. By chance, the man had a long cape draped on his left arm, and he promptly helps the girl to regain a modicum of decorum. He escorts her - to somewhere. The policeman, the picnic man and his three female companions, keep the chase on through the thick wood - long after they lost sight of the girl.
- A middle-aged man bare chest and wearing trousers, clears a shallow trench in the sand while a young woman draped in a long, flimsy veil looks on. The man leaves, but stays in the nearby wood at a watching distance, glancing at the girl divesting of her robe, sitting in the trench as if to sunbathe. She shifts positions a couple of times, but then the man returns, and starts covering her with sand. Unhappy, the girl gets up, picks a flask of lotion from the trench, and leaves with the man.
- Two women get undressed to take a bath in a lake. When a fisherman throws out his hook to catch some fish, he accidentally puts his hook in one of the women. A policeman appears to seemingly put the fisherman away.
- A modern days Diana comes to the border of a wood, near a water creek with canes, undresses, and places each clothing item on a tree branch. The camera shows her every movement, but also her reflection and those of the woods on the clear, moving waters. When she is going to lift up her white undershirt - the film teasingly ends.
- German army officers inspect female conscripts in lingerie and various stages of undress and measure their busts and thighs. One woman is selected.
- Geo the seer, on request of her own son, Sepeos, predicts the death of Kerysta the dancer from Tanagra, after she has danced three times. Messalina, the Roman empress, knew of Geo's powers to forsee the things to come, and went to consult her in her tent - and meets Sepeos just as he had heard his mother's prediction. As Sepeos had fallen in love when he first saw Kerysta, Messalina falls for Geo now, and immediately asks for affection in return, but he refuses her. Messalina is rejected, and dejected. She will use her arsenal of seductive poses and, caresses, then pleadings and promises, and finally imprisonment, punishment, and torture to achieve her end.
- Four gentlemen are talking in a beer-garden; during a short absence of one of them, who pretends to be an art lover, the others decide to make a prank on him. When he comes back, one them invites the "square" bourgeois to his home, pretexting to show him an art catalog. The men pay their drinks and leave, but the three friends convene later, and they have paid a young female model to be there, too. The three pals position the nude girl in a classic stance, standing on a pedestal covered with a white bed-shit. She has an headdress that hides her hair, and is painted white like marble. The men spend some time touching parts of her body, to achieve the best pose. All except one hide in the house, and when the "square" man arrives, the owner of the house arranges for the visitor to stay alone, reading a catalog. When he lifts the eyes from the catalog, he is in awe at the girl's beauty. [At the same, by design or a goof, the new symbol of Saturn-Film that was part of the wall decoration, falls to the floor.] The man feels hot, cleans his eye-glasses, makes sure no one is behind the closed doors, closes a window, takes off his toupee, drinks a glass of wine, and another - and finally dares to touch the nude statue. Immediately, the statue comes alive, and jumps down to the floor. The man is a bit nervous, and his chuckling friends appear a little later and explain their joke.
- Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.
- Dufond wants his nephew Onesimus to marry a charming sportswoman Clorinde du Ring, who was widowed recently. However, Onesimus has fallen in love with another woman he has been friends with since childhood, and refuses to obey his uncle's wishes. Dufond menaces to cut Onesimus' allowance and makes life miserable to Leocadia. Leocadia finds a job quickly, as a fashion model, and she is successful with the first dress she models in - as the rich Clorinde wants to buy it. However, a young boy comes in a hurry to inform her that Onesimus is trying to drown in her bathtub, despairing that she left him alone. Leocadie darts after the boy to save Onesimus which she does, mussing up the elegant dress she was still wearing. After her, arrive the costume designer and his angry customer. Leocadie and Clorinde have a pillow fight in the living room. Feathers fly everywhere and cover the floor, but it's Onesimus, still shaken and sitting on a chair, that takes most blows from the two enraged rivals who stand with him in the middle. Leocadie wins the battle against the sportive widow, and kicks her and Dufond out of the house.
- Jim Maitland (Gordon Mullen) loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and shortly after it closes, he robs the proprietors "Keno" Bates (William S. Hart) and "Wind River" (Herschel Mayall) are robbed, at gunpoint. After the surprise, they track Maitland down, and Keno shoots him dead on self defense. Keno goes through his belongings and finds a letter and a locket; the letter announces the arrival of the deceased's sister, and the locket has a cameo picture of Doris Maitland (Margaret Thompson). Thus, Keno tells Wind River they must do a heap of lying. Meeting the girl at the stagecoach's arrival, Keeno feels responsible for the innocent and attractive Ms. Maitland; he tells her a white lie, that her brother was a good man, "killed in a mine accident," who had left her a cabin and money - and Keno turns his own cabin over to Doris. Keno and Doris began to fall in love. Anita (Louise Glaum), a dance-hall girl, aggressively tries to seduce Keno. Keno repels her, and later, the dance-hall girl catches sight of her rival when Keno muses on the cameo. Anita decides to expose his lies to Doris in a private conversation at the cabin. First, Doris gets into a fight with the saloon girl but then Doris accepts the painful truth. Furious, Doris confronts Keno outdoors, and his admission of having killed her brother is followed by her sending a bullet into his body. Keno, disillusioned, wounded, staggers back to the Double Stamp, asking Wind River for his saddle bags so he can ride out. But not far from town, as he lays dying, Wind River tells Doris all the facts about her brother. They find Keno, and Doris nurses him back to health.
- A Portuguese bourgeois dares to look at a Spanish lady's delicate ankles at the beach, but his wife will have nothing of it. Later, it's him that forbids his daughter from seeing a young man she had met at the same beach.
- Simão loves Teresa whose father wants her to marry cousin Baltazar instead. The two lovers meet secretly; Baltazar pays a thug to kill his rival, and Simão is badly wounded. Teresa is forced into a convent. Mariana - who secretly loves Simão - treats him, and helps him to escape. SPOILERS AHEAD Baltazar intervenes, and this time the two rivals fight, and one of them dies. The love story will end tragically to the survivors. Simão is sentenced to prison in India - which amounts to a death sentence. Mariana goes with him, but neither will survive the voyage. Teresa dies in her convent, after receiving a last love letter from Simão.
- Modern version of the Cinderella story.
- A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.
- Rose is a young factory worker, seduced and abandoned by her lover. She feels compelled to abandon her baby, who will grow up in a rich family, with problems of its own. Rose lives through plenty of adventures, always repenting for leaving her child, until one day...
- The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
- An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.
- Peixe-de-Espada (literally, sword-fish), a retired Army colonel, his wife and nubile daughter are spending their holidays at the Palace Hotel, in the company of a lady doctor, Doctor Pilulas (literally, pills). He tells tall-tales of his African adventures, and she finds ways to promote the excellency of the pills of her own fabrication. To spend some time with Gabriela, his girlfriend, Rito appears disguised as a woman, pretending to be the new post-office operator. Desguises will come and go, and all ends well after a turmoil of twisted plots.
- The badge of the Corpo de Bombeiros Municipais de Lisboa, with the motto "Sobre todas excelente e maiorial" (the best of all others) is shown in detail. At the corps headquarters, all the officers and chiefs of the corps pose for the camera as in a still anniversary photo. The action starts in a nameless street, when someone runs to warn a policeman of a fire in a building. They both run to a wall booth, the policeman opens it, takes the telephone and calls the fire brigade headquarters, where a permanency gives the alert. Sleeping in a dormitory, the firemen jump off their beds, dress their uniforms in no time, and descend to the garage via a sliding post (almost off camera). Two motorbikes with sidecar, two all purpose vehicles, an open truck with firemen, a water-tank vehicle, and a Magirus-Leiter truck leave headquarters and drive quickly to the house in fire - where different phases of a fire attack exercise are shown, from linking the hoses to water sources to saving people who jump from windows onto blankets held up by the firemen.
- Aninhas (Aida Lupo), a paralyzed girl, asks for a miracle from the saint of her devotion, Our Lady of Lourdes, at the chapel of Penha (Guimarães), but her prayer is not heard - She turns her devotion to the Blessed Virgin directly, and joins the multitude that goes on a pilgrimage to the village where, ten years before, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three child sheepherders.
- This documentary is comprised of three parts: a general view of the village and its surroundings; a detailed view of streets and facades of churches, commercial and industrial shops, and social and welfare institutions; and finally, the training of the volunteer fire-brigade in response to a simulated fire in a four-storey house.
- In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
- Paul Lambert is a rich widower, and marries again with a young, beautiful woman. Charley Lambert is a spoiled young man, Paul's son from the deceased wife. When Charley comes back from travelling around the world, and meets his godmother, he is not able to repress his own passion for her. Soon, father and son are not speaking to each other. Eventually, Charley is bitten by a venomous snake, and Paul is denying him the antidote he has... In the end, the blood link between them takes over of their love jealousy, and they will reconcile.
- The love story between a young pair, and their adventures and misadventures with the vaudeville theatre as background, and the temptations chorus-girls represent for the young man. The film depended extensively on musical numbers and fado songs registered in discs, played in the theatre house from a gramophone.
- Caleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port town - Lisbon, from the old district around Saint George's Castle down to the docks and the 'Sagres' on the Tagus river, to the new commercial districts.
- A mechanical problem forces a Portuguese Navy Pilot to land on the Atlantic Ocean off the islets of Berlengas. Julião, an experienced sea-wolf, and his crew of fishermen, Pedro, Lacrau and Serrote, fish the pilot, and bring him safely ashore. The pilot is rescued at the manor house of the largest isle, where a beautiful girl lives alone. Rosa's humanitarian interest in helping the young man soon converts in a romantic fancy. When he returns to Lisbon, in the continent, she goes with him - and is engulfed in the lively customs of the city, with dress-up balls, dancing, night-clubs and ladies of the night, gambling, and drinking. The opposite of her earlier secluded life... The pilot seems less and less attracted to Rosa, dancing away in the arms of Lisette, and designing a daring project to cross the Atlantic in an airplane alone with a foolish Brazilean Pilot. The two pilots do attempt the ocean crossing, but they fail, and after a rescue attempt by the Navy, they are declared as lost in the sea. Rosa returns to Berlengas, and tries to get back to the simple love that Pedro professed for her once. Only, he does not want her, after she has been away with another man. Rosa attempts suicide by drowning, but Pedro manages to save her, and accept her.
- A maid applies to a good position at the Dutilleul's, but she wouldn't know how good it was to be until people starts taking her for the lady of the house...
- The Almourol Castle, situated in the small, rocky Almourol island, in the middle of the Tagus river, is a Moorish castle conquered by the Portuguese early in the 12th century, and later given by the king to the Knights Templar. A short survey of history, military architecture, and natural environment.
- Filmed song and veiled belly-dance by an Arab woman on a stage, accompanied by an orchestra of 1 violin, 2 guitars, and 1 tambour, led by Messaoud Habib at the pianola. When the music comes to the end, the singer and the musicians go out of the stage altingly, as if it was a rehearsal.
- Kid Marc is an upcoming boxer about to become the European Lightweight Champion, only he discovers his surprising victories had been handled by his manager, César Cannebois. This time, he vows to win on his own merits, to show his girlfriend how good he really is - and chiqué is stronger, and he loses in the ring. All glamour gone, everybody abandons him, save for his loyal and loving girlfriend. Régina is going to be his queen.
- A husband struggles throughout the film to prove to his jealous wife that he has always been faithful to her.
- November 12, the Lindbergh couple alighted in Minho River due to lack of petrol in their single-engine wooden Lockheed Sirius and bad weather conditions, when flying from Geneva to Lisbon. The hydroplane caused an uproar in the small village of Friestas, Portugal. The morning after, they were filmed by a Portuguese film director and cinematographer.
- Claude loves Gisèle, Raymonde loves Édouard, but a double misunderstand leads to the marriage of Claude and Raymonde. Obviously, they vow not to consumate the marriage until they divorce, and can marriage their true loves. But than, come the honey-moon night, more extraordinary things happen to them - even love.