Night Mail
Night Mail is a short (25 minute) black and white documentary made in 1936. It shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run,…
The Immortal Swan
“The Immortal Swan”, is a 1935 documentary tribute filmed not long after Pavlova’s death that depicts the star dancing, including her most famous solo, “The Dying Swan”.
Workers and Jobs
Public information film aimed at the unemployed, commissioned by the Ministry of Labour.
Enthusiasm
A lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbass who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the Five Year Plan.
Fashion News
A series of short movies in which Hollywood actresses including Phyllis Crane and Raquel Torres model Spring fashions in colour.
The Four Seasons
A nature documentary depicting the variety of changes undergone by plants and animals as the seasons of the year change. A deer is shown shedding his antlers, then growing new…
Exhibition in Reval
Our Daily Bread
This small Promotional Film showed Greta and a group of friends. They have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand HĂ´tel and later having a picnic in the park.
Mr. and Mrs. Stockholm
The film is a commercial for the department store PUB in Stockholm . It is the film debut for Greta Garbo who at that time was working as a clerk…
The Coronation of King Charles IV
Seven Ages of an Alligator
Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California. In early 1913 as…
Drunkenness and Its Consequences
Lost educational film on the effects of alcohol abuse.
Roald Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition
The Ascent of the Matterhorn (1912)
Documentary featuring the ascent of the Matterhorn (Cervino) completed in 1911 by Mario Piacenza along the guides of Valtournenche Joseph Gaspard and Joseph Carrel .
The Dirigible ‘Homeland’
Ocean Studies
The Coronation of King Peter I of Serbia
Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.
Move On
In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving….
Carriers Leaving Building, U.S.P.O.
A group of carriers leaving a building.
The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)
Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the…
The Trick Cyclist
Shows a tramp enter and try to ride a wheel, from which he makes some very ludicrous falls and gives up in despair, after which an artist enters and jumps…
The Georgetown Loop
Railroad from Georgetown to Silver Plume, Colorado.
Expérience du ballon dirigeable de M. Santos Dumont. II. Le ballon et son moteur
Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.
Expérience du ballon dirigeable de M. Santos Dumont. I. Sortie du ballon
One of Alberto Santos Dumont’s dirigibles is led out of a hangar.
Alger: place du gouvernement
A street scene with a government building in the background.
Scene from the Coronation of the Czar of Russia
100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor) Nicholas II. Shows distinguished guests entering a carriage, parade of troops and carriages, Nicholas II and…
Dragoons Crossing the Sâone
A stationary camera looks across Burgundy’s river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground, each riding his horse as it swims across toward…
Berlin, Hallesches Thor
A street scene in Berlin near Hallesches Tor.
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Two dancers perform in succession facing a stationary camera. The first is in a diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended. She smiles, wearing butterfly wings on…
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.
