Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood

This non-narrative short film examines one of the great American icons: the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. The film was conceived by its...

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...

This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

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

Produced in 1922, this 9-part silent documentary is an important document of the beginnings of industrialization in Brazil and the conditions of...

On 18th of December 2017, the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino, directed by Timothy Brock, presented "The Gold Rush" by Charles Chaplin, with live...

"Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

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

Short documentary on a carnival procession.

Short documentary on the Carnival at Aalst, Belgium.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.