Silent Film Scenes

A collection of silent film stills depicting various scenes, including royal processions, weddings, and theatrical moments, showcasing early cinematic storytelling.

People removing hats and welcoming king

QUEEN KELLY (1929), directed by ERICH VON STROHEIM.

Tricked At The Tunnel: Scene: Outside the Elbe Tunnel, Hamburg.Film: "Desperate Moment', on location.Problem: how to shoot scenes of dock-workers emerging from the tunnel-lifts without their looking into the camera-lens (at that moment focused on Dirk Bogarde).Solution: two German assistant directors staged a 'fight' complete with policeman trying to separate them.Result: Perfect takes, with not one dock-worker looking at the Camera. To a man, their attention was diverted to the 'fight', well out of lens-range!"Desperate Moment" is a George H. Brown production from Pinewood Studios, based on the Martha Albrand novel. Starring Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend and Albert Lieven, the film was written for the screen by Patrick Kirwan and George H. Brown. Directed by Compton Bennett. April 17, 1950. (Photo by Tom L. Blau, Camera Press).

Edouard de Max (1869-1924) in Homodéï, in "Angelo, Tyran de Padua", drama of Victor Hugo. Act III, Part I, scene 3. Theater Sarah-Bernhardt (today theater of the city). Paris (IVth arr.), February 7, 1905. Mate gelatin-argentic test. Photograph by Henri Manuel (1874-1947). Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 76326-18 Actor, actress, love, comedian, comedian, drama, jealousy, theatral representation, the scene of theater

The Burgraves, historic drama of Victor Hugo. Albert Lambert (1865-1941) and Mounet-Sully (1841-1916) in the roles of Otbert and Job, part 4. Scene 4. Comedy-French, Paris. 1902. Anonymous photography. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 79198-4 Actor, Comedie-Francais, French Commedien, Representation, Theater, Scene

Anefo photo collection. Firato 1967. Studio decorated for coloring television. September 20, 1967

Anefo photo collection. Gijsbrecht van Amstel. December 31, 1949

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo Collection National Information Service Private, Photo number 156-0757. 1956

Hollywood, California: c. 1927 A man is hoisted onto shoulders and feted with streamers and confetti in a scene from an early film.

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Madrid, 1980 (CA). Filming of a Studio 1 play.

MARUJITA DIAZ in ABUELITA CHARLESTON (1962).

Anefo photo collection. Rehearsals of the "Reconstruction" opera in Carré. The playing floor with Reinbert de Leeuw (composer and conductor) and "Erasmus" (Bert Ollson). 25 June 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

MISC: DECORADOS. Film set.

NIKOLAI CHERKASOV in IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART ONE (1944) -Original title: IVAN GROZNYJ I-, directed by SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN.

THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954), directed by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ.

Anefo photo collection. Premiere Fidelio Dutch Opera. November 14, 1949

Anefo photo collection. Carnival (ready ..... over) in Den Bosch. March 2, 1962. Den Bosch

Man standing above crowd. 1938 - 1939. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans , Performing arts, African Americans , Theater, African American theater, African Americans in the performing arts, Plays, Theatrical productions, New Lafayette Theatre, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Androcles and the Lion

The adventures of Robin Hood. Year: 1938. Directors: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland. Author: CURTIZ MICHAEL / KEIGHLEY WILLIAM.

Sol Lesser in association with The American Theatre Wing presents."Stage Door Canteen" (A soldier's Love Story). July 18, 1943. (Photo by Daily Times).

"Medea" Dress Rehearsal. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

GDR, Berlin, 17.7.1988, festival in Monbijoupark, theatre performance, NVA soldiers

MUSICA DE AYER (1959), directed by JUAN DE ORDUÑA.

The 1938 Royal Command Variety performance at the London Coliseum: the Grand Finale. The entire company, lead by Lupino Lane, doing the Lambeth Walk, a popular musical number. Date: November 1938

L' ISOLA DEGLI UOMINI PESCI (1979) -Original title: SCREAMERS-, directed by SERGIO MARTINO.

03/31/1923. Madrid. At the Reina Victoria theater. A scene from the Magazine "Cri-Cri", Represented by the company of the main Palace of Barcelona.

Yeomen of the Guard, New Zealand, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

Bliżej Kultury unknown

LOLA FLORES and MANOLO CARACOL in CAPTAIN BLACKJACK (1950) -Original title: BLACK JACK-, directed by JULIEN DUVIVIER.

Dance Scene, on-set of the Film, "Evergreen", Gaumont British Distributors, Fox Film Corp., 1934

Anefo photo collection. Generale rehearsal lustrum game Xerxes. USC. July 2, 1956. Utrecht

GEORGE CUKOR in LITTLE WOMEN (1933), directed by GEORGE CUKOR.

MISTER ARKADIN (1955) -Original title: MR. ARKADIN-, directed by ORSON WELLES.

Anefo photo collection. The gate of Istahir (Lustrump game Amsterdam students). June 25, 1947

Elsevier photo collection. Execution "Hamlet" Shakespeare Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. left Kommer Kleijn, D. van Veen, Albert van Dalsum, Fie Carelsen, Eduard Verkade, Jac. Beule. 1919. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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LOUIS CALHERN in JULIUS CAESAR (1953), directed by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ.

RICHARD HARRIS in CAMELOT (1967), directed by JOSHUA LOGAN.

Lavish ball scene, on-set of the film, "The Count Of Monte Cristo", United Artists, 1934

VIOLETTES IMPÉRIALES (1924), directed by HENRY ROUSSELL.

Paris Grand BallMost Brilliant event of the Paris social season is the annual charity ball given each year at the Paris Opera House. This year's was the first to be held since before the war. Noted figures from the Worlds of art, sports and society attended to make the function a great success and, incidentally, a symbol of France's post-war renascence. Here is the sumptuous scene as smartly dressed arrivals thronged the grand staircase. April 7, 1947. (Photo by ACME).

BARCAROLLE (1935), directed by ROGER LE BON.

A BULLET FOR SANDOVAL (1969) -Original title: LOS DESESPERADOS-, directed by JULIO BUCHS and LUCIO FULCI.

LAURENCE HARVEY in THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM (1962), directed by HENRY LEVIN.

CONRAD VEIDT in THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940), directed by LUDWIG BERGER, WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES, MICHAEL POWELL, ALEXANDER KORDA, ZOLTAN KORDA and TIM WHELAN.

World's peace jubilee, 1872. Boston coliseum. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Peace movements, Organs

New Year Celebrations In London - A general view of the scene as midnight strikes and thousands of small balloons float down from the roof.Thousands of revellers danced the old Year out and the New Year in at the famous Chelsea Arts Ball held at the Royal Albert Hall, London. January 1, 1955. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency).

Bliżej Kultury unknown

Teatro Greco di Siracusa. A scene from the performance of the tragedy Ajax by Sophocles.

GOOD MORNING, BABYLON (1987), directed by VITTORIO TAVIANI and PAOLO TAVIANI.

12/31/1965. The Zarzuela anthology, in the illuminated Plaza de España in María Luisa Park in Seville.

Original Film Title: LA CASA DE LA TROYA. English Title: COLLEGE BOARDING HOUSE. Film Director: RAFAEL GIL. Year: 1959. Stars: ARTURO FERNANDEZ.

The stuff that dreams are made of is steam! So now you know how these waltzing-in-the-clouds film scenes are done. These ballet dancers are in a dream sequence in the film "Melba." This is what happens. First they take up their swooning poses against a cloudy backcloth - and in front of huge trays of dry ice. "Action," the producer cries. Propmen pour buckets of hot water on the ice, a fan blows the resulting steam in a deep layer across the floor and there they are - waltzing in the clouds... Brings you down to earth, doesn't it The scene is being shot, by Horizon Pictures, at Covent Garden. October 8, 1952. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Elsevier photo collection. Scene 'Lady Emer's battle "by Hollandse Schouwburg. left right. Louise Kooiman, Sara Heijblom, H. van Meerten, Albert van Dalsum. March 1922. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

FILM HISTORY: SALAS DE CINE. Movie theater.

Anefo photo collection. Sint Lucas party Swiss legacy The Hague. December 14, 1951. The Hague, South Holland

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Open air theater Tjililitan. Theater performance in the open air (failed photo). January 10, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

GRETA GARBO and C. AUBREY SMITH in QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933), directed by ROUBEN MAMOULIAN.

Sleeping Beauty (Berlin State Ballet)

Photo collection Government information service. Folklore, st. Nicholas. November 5, 1973

Anefo photo collection. Generale rehearsal lustrum game Xerxes. USC. July 2, 1956. Utrecht

INGRID BERGMAN in JOAN OF ARC (1948), directed by VICTOR FLEMING.

A Twentieth Century Fox Picture. Darryl F. Zanuck Presents Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison Linda Darnell in "Anna and the King of Siam" with Lee J. Cobb, Gale Sondergaard, Mikhail Rasumny, Dennis Hoey, Tito Renaldo, Richard Lyon. Directed by John Cromwell, Produced by Louis D. Lighton. May 23, 1953. (Photo by Twentieth Century-Fox);A Twentieth Century Fox Picture. Darryl F. Zanuck Presents Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison Linda Darnell in "Anna and the King of Siam" with Lee J. Cobb, Gale Sondergaard, Mikha

Large Stage Production, on-set of the Film, "Kismet", Warner Bros., 1930

ESTHER AND THE KING (1960), directed by RAOUL WALSH and MARIO BAVA.

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