Silent film showcasing hypnosis and its effects.

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently un...

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goe...

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire ...
The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 wom...

Early Balkan footage.

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turnin...

It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made stru...
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up na...

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine at...

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janak...
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan ...
Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs hal...
On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine wit...