Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
Short silent film about some models of silk stockings.
Silent documentary short showcasing a fashion show in the late twenties set at the Côte d'Azur.
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goe...
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pil...
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing i...
Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compil...
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current militar...
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...