What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janak...
The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two wei...
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words...
Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs hal...
A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large ...
On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine wit...
Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, sev...
A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973).
A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan ...
Reel 1, an oil field is located, drilled, brought in, and pumped. Shows the Garber Field in Oklahoma...
1972 in Haute-Savoie (France) : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachel...
In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storey...
The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and...
In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the fore...
A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.