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.
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7.096 1922 HD
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...
4.813 1905 HD
A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
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.
5.5 1969 HD
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
5.207 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...
5.882 1888 HD
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.
0 2000 HD
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.
7.5 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...
3 1895 HD
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
0 1909 HD
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
6 1919 HD
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
0 1896 HD
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy
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...
0 2018 HD
On 18th of December 2017, the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino, directed by Timothy Brock, presented "The Gold Rush" by Charles Chaplin, with live...
7.5 1938 HD
One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show about nature.
2 1922 HD
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature,...
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...
5.5 1961 HD
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
