The optical company Bausch & Lomb of Rochester, New York, contracted Watson and Webber to create this corporate industrial film to showcase the company’s extensive catalog of lenses and other optical instruments, displaying their practical applications in industry and everyday life. The Eyes of Science easily straddles the fields of avant-garde and industrial filmmaking, making both a fascinating object of form and style, as well as a highly educational, entertaining, and informative piece of film and industrial history.
In 1961 Turin celebrated the centenary of the Italian unity with a large exposition which lasted fro...
The surviving 14 minutes of the original documentary about the Villas Boas expedition to the Amazoni...
The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is...
Report of the departure of the SS Patria to the Dutch East Indies.
Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and am...
On May 1st, unions all over Japan celebrate May Day, the international day for workers. Workers gath...
Yamamoto Senji fought against the Peace Preservation Law in the Diet. On March 5, 1929 he was assass...
In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air...
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashba...
A fortune teller helps a woman gain the affections her beloved, with deathly consequences.
California cowpuncher Jim Kern and his pal enlist in the war against Germany and, shortly thereafter...
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available inter...
A flirtatious young woman takes a job in a busy office, where her presence is terribly disruptive. N...
Aliens discover Germany.
A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an i...
Based on a story told by George Johnson, featuring Booker T. Washington. Only four minutes survive.