Wilbur Wright and His Flying Machine

6.2

Ten Minutes Older

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.

1978-05-11 | xx

4.0

Spiders on a Web

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the pioneers of the British film industry, G.A. Smith, this short film details spiders trapped in an enclosure, and despite the title, does not actually feature a web.

1900-08-08 | en

5.4

Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

1900-08-08 | fr

4.5

99ème régiment d'infanterie : assaut du portique

A regiment of soldiers demonstrate their skills.

1897-06-06 | en

5.3

Vu générale de l'Exposition prise du Trocadéro

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

1900-01-01 | fr

4.6

Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

1898-03-06 | fr

5.2

Londres, Piccadilly Circus

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

1896-08-23 | en

4.7

Cheese Mites

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To his horror, he finds it to be alive with mites, and, in disgust, leaves the table. Hundreds of mites resembling crabs are seen scurrying in all directions. A wonderful picture and a subject hitherto unthought of in animated photography. Notable for being the first science film made for the general public.

1903-09-25 | en

7.0

The Epic of Everest

The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine attempted to reach the summit of Everest in 1924 they came closer than any previous attempt. Inspired by the work of Herbert Ponting (The Great White Silence) Captain Noel filmed in the harshest of conditions, with specially adapted equipment, to capture the drama of the fateful expedition.

1924-12-01 | en

6.1

2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

Filmed on the 100th anniversary of the labour union laws in France, the quasi-science fiction film is set in 2084. A robot moderator helps us look 'back' at the contemporary labour situation and different directions the movement could take.

1984-10-01 | fr

5.8

Brush of Baphomet

A look at the artwork of Aleister Crowley.

2009-03-19 | en

0.0

Little Monsters 3D

Little Monsters presents some of the animal kingdom’s strangest survival strategies: poison dart frogs, chameleons, praying mantises and scorpions, to name but a few. Thanks to 3D visualization, large audiences can experience a chameleon thrusting out its tongue at close range, rattlesnakes striking at their targets to within fractions of an inch, praying mantises hunting and hummingbirds feeding, filmed from inside the flower! And with its ingenious combination of slow-motion 3D and timelapse 3D, “Little Monsters” even improves upon state of the art 3D for greater impact, yielding unbelievable scenes the world has never seen and “felt” before.

2013-01-01 | en

4.5

The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall

The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom lost their lives when the jetty upon which they were standing became washed away by the resultant swell.

1898-09-30 | xx

5.5

Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898. On August 2 of the same year, a demonstration of Alexander Michon's program took place, which included the film "Fire at an oil fountain in Bibiheybat".

1898-08-02 | az

6.8

Silent Britain

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, revealing it to be far richer than previously acknowledged. This documentary, featuring clips from a remarkable range of films, celebrates the early years of British filmmaking and spans from such pioneers as George Albert Smith and Cecil Hepworth to such later figures as Anthony Asquith, Maurice Elvey and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock.

2006-05-31 | en

5.3

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

1895-06-12 | fr

5.0

Dance of the Sylphs

This is a short, simple ballet performance. Colors are used here, but the print is quite badly damaged.

1902-07-17 | fr

5.5

La vida sin memoria parece dulce

Iván Ávila Dueñas uses domestic found footage material. We observe a mineral engineer, a priest and a constructor filming their personal life in Zacatecas, Mexico between 1930 ad 1950.

2013-04-12 | en

4.7

Loïe Fuller

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dance before disappearing into thin air. The dance is mesmerising with the skirt stunningly changing colour throughout the film.

1905-02-28 | fr

4.7

Récréation à la Martinière

Students in Lyon.

1896-05-10 | fr

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