Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and observing their mating and fighting behavior.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
Early Balkan footage.
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
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...
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to...
Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim.
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current militar...
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...