A travel documentary on landscapes, which utilizes the phantom ride technique and which makes use of the momentum of shots taken with the camera mounted on moving vehicles. Each means of transport answers to differing rules in perceiving the scenario.
Watch the official From the Verbano to Switzerland Through the Gotthard 1910 trailer in HD below.
Italy 16 June 1910
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
27 October 1910
Councilor Sven Ersson and farmer Jan Hansson have been bitter enemies for several years. Sven's neighbour Ola in Gyllby has a daughter Britta, the perfect partner for Sven's son Erik.
16 May 1910
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.
16 February 1910
Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the sequence in which the fly spins a ball twice its own size, while a second fly perches on top.
21 November 1910
A mother tries to save her son from a decadent life shared with a masseuse.
03 October 1910
A printer, drinking excessively and neglectful of his family obligations, is fired from his job when he offends his wealthy employer and his employer’s guests as they tour the printworks.
17 January 1910
Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower of considerable wealth, the father of a girl child, and an old friend of the family, often surreptitiously helped them.
05 March 1910
The film pictures scenes on a big ostrich farm in Southern California, near Los Angeles. A large flock of several hundred of the big birds are seen feeding.
16 May 1910
An ailing woman is visited by her family doctor. This film was seized by Austrian authorities in 1911, and the fact was announced in the Wiener Zeitung, the Official Journal of Vienna.
13 July 1910
A spoiled rich boy meets and falls in love with an older woman, a dancer who is more amused than flattered by his attentions, to the point of stealing his mother's jewels.
06 July 1910
Film recording of a controversial boxing match with the first black heavyweight champion fighting a white retired former champion.
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