“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great inventor. The scene is an actual one, showing Mr. Edison in working dress engaged in an interesting chemical experiment in his great Laboratory. There is sufficient movement to lead the spectator through the several processes of mixing, pouring, testing, etc. as if he were side by side with the principal. The lights and shadows are vivid, and the apparatus and other accessories complete a startling picture that will appeal to every beholder.” (Edison Catalog)

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another ...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

Jonas Mekas documents Timothy Leary’s Millbrook estate in the wake of a police raid, juxtaposing ser...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

An educational short film about correct speaking methods.

Color footage of inventor George Washington Carver at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Dr. Carver is ...

Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don...

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag follows American F-15 Eagle pilot John Stratton as he trains with ...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

From the banks of the Bahamas to the seas of Argentina, we go underwater to meet dolphins. Two scien...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinemat...

Cristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downt...