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.
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...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on ...
Topical Budget 545-2. Newsreel of the 1920s aerial stuntwoman and barnstormer, Sara “Babe” Kalishek...
This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film...
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging it...
The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames ...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back...