Our Heavenly Bodies

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

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...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Short silent film about some models of silk stockings.

Silent documentary short showcasing a fashion show in the late twenties set at the Côte d'Azur.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

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.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

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...