A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. The cinematic journey of Around China with a Movie Camera contains many films which may never have been seen in China, or at the very least not for over 70 years. These travelogues, newsreels and home movies were made by a diverse group of British and French filmmakers, some professionals, but mainly enthusiastic amateurs, including intrepid tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries.

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

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Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

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A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with t...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.