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.
4.813 1905 HD
A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
0 1910 HD
A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.
0 1926 HD
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The educational documentary is part of the Bruce...
6 1925 HD
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at...
6 1919 HD
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
7.9 2011 HD
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...
4.7 1905 HD
Early Balkan footage.
4.8 1908 HD
Early Balkan footage.
6.5 2013 HD
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
6.8 1932 HD
Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pilgrimage with the Catholic Young Workers’...
7 2007 HD
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...
5.204 1894 HD
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...
5.883 1888 HD
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.
7 1966 HD
A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goes to sleep at 10pm.
0 1948 HD
Short documentary on the Antwerp Ford Motor Company plant.
0 2024 HD
This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental musical track that accompanies the rhythm of the...
7.504 1927 HD
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...
0 1909 HD
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
7.3 1930 HD
Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy...
0 1968 HD
Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films,...
