A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Ediso...

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particular...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Early Balkan footage.

The only known moving-image footage of the author, filmed at his home, Stormfield, in Redding, Conne...
A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night...
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up na...
Commissioned by Philips, Europa Radio celebrates the company’s experimental PCJJ shortwave radio sta...

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

On 18th of December 2017, the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino, directed by Timothy Brock, presented ...

The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine at...

Much of Hunter's fame was built upon her resemblance to Marilyn Monroe; indeed, her Playboy pose was...

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....

City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the...

Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; devel...
On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He ...

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel ...