Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.
A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goe...
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Ediso...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, p...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
This non-narrative short film examines one of the great American icons: the Louisville Slugger baseb...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
The Antwerp Zoo covers a fair extent of ground, and was already in 1910 generally considered as an i...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
A short documentary about the life and love of New York surf culture following transplanted San Dieg...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, a...