A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Promotional film extolling the wonders to be seen at the New York World's Fair.

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage ...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known...

In the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'Avv...

Originally shown in IMAX theaters, this film presents highly detailed and lavish views of the gorgeo...

After consolidating itself as a tourist destination in the mid-1960s, this small coastal village has...

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On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An et...

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A self portrait filmed with a modified PXL 2000 Camcorder. The camcorder itself records on to audio ...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...
Short film about an express steamer

Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to me...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

The fascinating and little-known story of the secretarial profession, which tells the story of the e...

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