On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tightening various parts with wrenches. On the right side, a few men appear to be testing the workings of what may be a turbine.

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...

A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
A medium-length film that takes the central place in the video installation "The Lady of Corinth". I...

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He ...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
Commissioned by Philips, Europa Radio celebrates the company’s experimental PCJJ shortwave radio sta...
Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by...

The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine at...
A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night...

Little Monsters presents some of the animal kingdom’s strangest survival strategies: poison dart fro...
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up na...

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently un...