Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of caimans, jaguars and tropical flora with footage of Indigenous rituals--including some of the earliest known moving images of the Indigenous Witoto people--and longer sequences showcasing the region’s extractive industries: rubber, the Brazil nut, timber, fishing, even the egret feathers that were a staple of women’s fashion at the time.

Photograph of King Vittorio Emanuele III. The ship Italia, formerly König Albert, under the command of Count Carlos Grenet and with the Italian ambassador Giovanni Giuriati, entering the port of Rio Grande, on May 2: events and groups of Italian reservists for their reception; popular and authorities, representatives of societies and the cities of Cachoeiro and Pelotas, music band, including a representative of the fascism of Caxias, present at the reception.

In 1928, the city of Curitiba went through a rare snowstorm. To this day, it is the harshest snowstorm to ever take place in the city. Everything was recorded by Alberto Botelho in this short documentary.

On an expedition through Latin America, Italian General Italo Balbo made the Atlantic crossing with his seaplane squadron, which left Boloma, entered Brazilian territory via Natal and now ended its journey in the capital Rio de Janeiro. Arrival of the fascist squadron at Enseada de Botafogo. People, many in boats, applaud the descent of the seaplanes. A group of officers searches the soldiers in profile. Italo Balbo, Ambassador Vittorio Cerrutti and Royal Consul Onorevole Mammalella watch the parade of troops. A group of officers with Col. Magdalena, "the intrepid hero of several aerial feats". At the Catete Palace, Balbo and Cerrutti are received by the President of the Provisional Government, Getúlio Vargas, and his ministers. The Italian delegation leaves the Catete Palace.

Documentary focusing on operations performed at the time by Dr. Benedito Montenegro in São Paulo hospitals. The director created cartoons "to better illustrate" the operations.

Dancer Vera Grabinska performs choreography by Pierre Michailowsky for the piece "Le Cygne", by Saint-Saëns, next to the artificial fountain on the grounds of the International Sample Fair in Rio de Janeiro. The dance movements alternate with images of swans in the water.

The Governor of Pernambuco, Sérgio Loreto, and politicians from his cabinet pose for the camera. The celebrations of the Centennial of the Confederation of the Equator included a Public Force parade (Infantry, Cavalry, and Fire Brigade), an open-air Mass celebrated by Archbishop Dom Miguel Valverde, and the laying of the foundation stone of the Palace of Justice.

Scenes from the daily life of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva—the cangaceiro leader Lampião—and his group, captured by cinematographer Benjamin Abrahão. Their survival strategies in the sertão landscape, their gestures, habits, clothing, and diet are illustrated. Proud of their status, the group's main members are shown displaying their weapons and combat skills in the caatinga. Maria Bonita and Lampião appear in moments of tension and relaxation, highlighting the harmony of the band and, above all, the rigors of life as a cangaceiro. (Cinemateca Brasileira)

Fest organized by Irmandade do Outeiro Nossa Senhora da Glória with the attendance of president Eurico Gaspar Dutra.

Luizinho is a young man passionate about Flamengo, fortunate enough to have his education paid for by the club, and plays in the team's lower divisions. A pupil of Rubens, the two compete for a spot on the professional team. Until Rubens introduces his friend to the woman he's in love with, Maria Helena. The problem is that she was Luizinho's childhood sweetheart, and the encounter rekindles their passion. A conflict begins between the two players that will be decided on the field.

The city of São Paulo at the end of the 1920s. Urbanism, fashion, public monuments, industrialization, historical facts, coffee production expansion, education and the sound of daily life. Using the classic documentary Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (1927) as a model, Hungarian filmmakers Adalberto Kemeny and Rodolf Lustig, who owned one of the best film laboratories that Brazil relied on at the time, made this documentary.

Funeral Pomps of Admirals Saldanha and Barroso; tribute from the Brazilian Navy. Views "of the Avenue, full of people"; "army and armada officers, ladies, etc."

At the Rockefeller Foundation, the rat colony for experiments with viruses and antibodies in humans. In Ilha dos Macacos, next to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, the creation of Rhesus monkey by the Rockefeller Foundation - a primate species that allows the monitoring of experimental yellow fever.

A silent documentary that depicts Recife’s urban development projects in the 1920s and the progress of Pernambuco, with particular emphasis on the construction of Recife’s new wharf.

It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.

Produced in 1922, this 9-part silent documentary is an important document of the beginnings of industrialization in Brazil and the conditions of workers at the time.

A FAB officer makes a forced landing on the pasture of a countryside and arrives at a house, where he is greeted by Maria, a paralyzed lace maker. Without a phone so that he could report the accident to the Aeronautics School, the officer decides to tell everything about the School.

The concerto for piano and orchestra of Fantasia Brasileira and its movements (Prelude, Song, Dance), illustrated by images of the performing musicians and Brazilian scenes: a raft at sea, a farm, rural workers, a church and a series of waterfalls.

General hillside takes. The president of Minas Gerais, Antonio Carlos, is greeted by men. Authority speaks and the president of Minas Gerais cuts the inaugural ribbon. Antonio Carlos and his delegation visit the complex's facilities, pass through a dam, artificial canal, waterfall and floodgates. Cars from the delegation arrive at the scene and authorities greet each other. People applaud the entourage that, with guests, passes through different points of the dam.

A Brazilian documentary short from Alberto Botelho about the first railway battalion.

The historical places and geography of the city of Salvador.

Various views of the Palm Tree’s Ally, the Corcovado funicular and the high tide in Rio de Janeiro before Christ the Redeemer came to dominate the scene.

The popular song Chuá Chuá, illustrated with scenes of rural life. Girl observes in window. A fountain drains water. A flower. The cattle grazing. River waters. Man seen from window of wattle and daub house. Girl hangs cage with bird. Man walks towards the gate. Ducks in river drink water. The popular song A Casinha Pequenina, illustrated with scenes from rural life. Hut surrounded by banana trees and a coconut tree. Children walk hand in hand, sit on the riverbank. Birds in cages. Again the little house and the vegetation that surrounds it, especially the coconut tree.

Balanced on a perch, the parrot is encouraged to imitate the sounds of human speech.

The arrival on Rio de Janeiro of the remains of the members of the Inconfidência Mineira movement, who fought from freedom in the late 1700's. The event was followed by statesman Getúlio Vargas, other politicians, military men and a large crowd

The film presents aspects of Rio Negro and Rio Branco, showing the services of Dr. H. Rice's expedition.

Detailed description of the diplomatic and territorial conquests of José Maria Paranhos, the Baron of Rio Branco. Considered the father of Brazilian diplomacy, Rio Branco, through his skillful negotiation skills, was the protagonist of important diplomatic resolutions, which preserved a large part of Brazillian borders.

Biographical data about Castro Alves: the different cities where he lived, the love misadventures, the school institutions where he studied and his poetry. Countryside landscapes illustrate the narrated trajectory. Negra caresses a child in a performance by Castro Alves with her nanny Leopoldina. Men work in pestles, weed. Views of the cities of Cachoeira and Salvador. In the capital, highlights include the Church, Feira de Meninos, the Solar da Boa Vista. Views of the city of Recife. The Recife Faculty of Law. A herm of the poet. The Santa Isabel Theatre. Return to Salvador and the São João Theater.

"No País das Amazonas" begins showing the indigenous people of Amazonas. Then, it presents the economical activities showing each step in the production line of the incipient local industries, inclusive with the exit of workers from a factory in the end of the working period. The documentary shows also the boats on the river, the fishing of manatee ("peixe-boi") and preparation of the flesh with salt, the rubber trees, the extraction and each step of the preparation until the rubber mattress is ready to be exported, the Brazilian chestnuts, guaraná and smoke and the insects.

The celestial map organized by Professor Manuel Pereira Reis, which allows you to view the sky in Rio de Janeiro at any time of any day of the year. In a simplified copy of this device, in which only the main stars appear as if reflected in a horizontal mirror, the inner disc, that of the stars, coincides with the outer disc of hours and days as it rotates. This allows you to view aspects of the sky on various dates in various months.

The Oswaldo Cruz Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, serves as a major research center in the field of public health. Aerial shots depict vast green areas and rural regions with small farms, reservoirs, and riverside lands. The work of health agents is shown at a small remote outpost, along with the facility’s infrastructure and tools used to study endemic diseases. The film also records various landscapes, such as dirt roads cutting through the caatinga, as well as rapids and waterfalls.

An adventure in the jungles of Roncador, marking the historic encounter with the fearsome Xavantes.

In 1917, director Major Luiz Thomaz Reis travels with his associate, Marshall Cândido Mariano Rondon through the Center-West and North of Brazil, being the official cinematographer of the expedition. "Ao Redor do Brasil" is a footage with the fragments of three films of Major Reis.

"Scenes from their (Guilherme and Lia Torá's) tests in Brazil, others taken at Paulo Benedetti's studio and garden, some excerpts from footage in which they are not present, excerpts from the 'formidable' reception in New York and natural scenes: of trains and Fifth Avenue." (Cinearte, 07.03.1929)

A precious visual record of cattle ranching activity in the Mato Grosso hinterlands during the 1930s, seen through the eyes of a pioneering duo with an anthropological and ethnographic perspective.

The documentary shows, in the form of journalistic reports, the revolution against the Federal Government in 1924, which was suppressed.

Funerals of students Ribeiro Junqueira and Araújo Guimarães, murdered in Rio de Janeiro. You can see perfectly the exit of the coffins from the Faculty of Medicine and the great funeral procession parade through the central streets to the cemetery, as well as the moment when the academic Armando Aragão spoke from a window of the Faculty.

Method used to combat the coffee borer: the use of a purge chamber, the application and circulation of sulphide in gutters, the use of the compound in empty bags, the use of water to seal the chamber lid, in order to prevent the spread of the pest. Aspects of coffee harvesting, transportation and storage, as well as the daily lives of farmers and their work techniques.

The film demonstrates all stages of production of the yellow fever vaccine that took place in the Yellow Fever Service laboratory of the Rockefeller Foundation, located in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, next to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.

Short documentary about orchids.

A short documentary about a screw.

A visual interpretation of Brazilian popular songs "Azulão" and "Pinhal".

The new Palace of the Chamber of Deputies of Rio de Janeiro, still unoccupied: exteriors, interiors and facilities. The Mass and blessing of the Palace celebrated by the Archbishop of Rio, D. Sebastiao Leme. Official inauguration; speech of the mayor Arnolpho Azevedo.

A document of daily life in a Bororo tribe in western Brazil, including the different phases of their funeral rites.