“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are enacted just as they take place in the far away frozen North. In this subject we depict a large number of Esquimaux clothed in their native costumes and seated on their sleds, which are drawn by spans of four Esquimaux dogs. They are engaged in a race and are to be seen running over the ice and snow at a high rate of speed. There is a pond in the foreground of the picture on the shores of which the home stretch of the race takes place. The picture is perfect photographically, and the figures stand out clear and sharp, throwing a most perfect reflection on the pond.” (Edison film company catalog)
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
This documentary closely follows a group of people living in the Bering Strait and delves into the f...
Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from t...
Short ethnographic documentary on the Tetela tribe in Congo based upon footage and commentary by dir...
Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de He...
Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syl...
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Early Balkan footage.
It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build karmaks, shelters with snow wal...
The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she...
Two Eskimo families travel across the wide sea ice. Before night falls they build small igloos and w...
In late winter when the cold is severe, the people and dogs are glad to stop their trek and make cam...
Full summer, and the tundra is bare; skin tents are up and it is time to attend to the fishing as th...