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.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
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...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and am...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Th...
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on ...
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imag...