William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the first film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company to be shown to public audiences and the press.
Early Balkan footage.
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, c...
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from t...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pil...
Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compil...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, p...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...