George Veditz, one-time president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States, outlines the right of deaf people to sign instead of speak. The film is presented in American Sign Language and has no sub- or intertitles.
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...
Growing up as a Deaf individual in Indonesia, Mufi was taught to speak instead of sign. As an adult,...
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.
Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series. Witness ...
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...
Stammer School follows a cast of struggling stammerers as they enrol in a course that aims to help t...
Documentary telling the extraordinary story of Koko, the only 'talking' gorilla in the world, and he...
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...