“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)
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...
Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkels...
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particular...
A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and reck...
This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946...
From the banks of the Bahamas to the seas of Argentina, we go underwater to meet dolphins. Two scien...
An intimate and inspirational portrait of Segway inventor, Dean Kamen, and his 15-year quest to solv...