A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, old fashioned diving suit. It's a complicated process, many layers and sections are carefully applied. He goes over the side. Some men row out to what looks like a wrecked barge and set dynamite. Then the diver returns and now laughs and acknowledges the camera. The other men, now safely away, blow up the barge.
Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pil...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.
Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don...
Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decad...
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from t...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
Early Balkan footage.
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkels...
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and reck...
This unprecedented and exclusive insider's account by filmmaker James Hanlon and Gedeon and Jules Na...
Silent documentary short showcasing a fashion show in the late twenties set at the Côte d'Azur.
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.