A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and poetry of W.H. Auden.

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.
A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black ba...
A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.
A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Car...
Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hip...
This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamr...

In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see th...

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all ...

Little Monsters presents some of the animal kingdom’s strangest survival strategies: poison dart fro...

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire ...
A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her...
A panoramic shot, making a full circle, at the 1900 Paris Exposition. It begins and ends looking at ...

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

A street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barki...