Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, ...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

Topical Budget 545-2. Newsreel of the 1920s aerial stuntwoman and barnstormer, Sara “Babe” Kalishek...

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and bio...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

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...

One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...