Roundhay Garden Scene

The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken on paper-based photographic film in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince’s son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince’s mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. Roundhay Garden Scene is often associated with a recording speed of around 12 frames per second and runs for about 2 to 3 seconds.

1888-10-14 | en

Abschied vom Garten

The early retired Gert spends the last summer in his garden, a place that has become a real home for him. The garden will be demolished to create a shopping center on its grounds. The only thing Gert can do is remember memories of happy times he spent with his family in the garden.

2020-01-15 | en

André Le Nôtre, le jardinier de Louis XIV

André Le Notre is certainly the most famous French gardener. He was also a designer, architect, engineer, landscaper and urban planner. He worked for Louis XIV from 1645 to 1700 and designed the gardens of Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte, Chantilly and Fontainebleau, as well as the Tuileries in Paris.

2014-12-31 | fr

Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper

Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings. His gardens and fountains were transformations meant to bring out the beauty their locations had always possessed.

1997-06-25 | en

Green Guérilla

In the community gardens of New York

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An Enclosure

We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.

1999-03-05 | en

I Grow Chronic!

Step-by-Step construction of a basic indoor grow-room that yields a 1/4 pound of Chronic Sinsemillas Marijuana every two months. Mr. Green takes out the mystery and confusion surrounding the construction and maintenance of an indoor marijuana grow room by breaking it down into basic easy-to-follow steps.

1999-01-01 | en

L'acte de la beauté

2021-11-15 | fr

Life is Fruity

90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata and his 87-year-old wife Hideko live in Aichi Prefecture. Their garden is bursting with 70 types of vegetables and 50 types of fruits, and they live in harmony with nature.

2017-01-02 | ja

Great Western Road

Take a virtual stroll down the streets of Glasgow’s iconic Great Western Road.

1980-04-04 | en

Trip to Hilsea Lido

Large numbers of children and adults can be seen enjoying themselves, splashing about in the water or diving from the high-boards.

1949-05-01 | xx

From Gaol to Rectory

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

1927-01-01 | xx

A Day on the Broads

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

1929-07-01 | xx

Wedding of Miss Carrie Alexander

The mayor's daughter gets hitched in style in the Kent market town.

1913-12-01 | xx

Portrait of Penge

Film about the town of Penge featuring local personalities, housing, shopping, traffic and the Penge formation dancers.

1964-01-01 | en

Enchanting Bournemouth

Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, competing with cheaper foreign holidays and offering a variety of transportation options.

1961-01-01 | en

Splendour of the Heavens

A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before focussing on a particular house in the suburbs with its own observatory.

1962-09-10 | en

Dream of Light

Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

1992-10-01 | es

Aquaponics Made Easy

Aquaponics master Murray Hallam takes you into the world of Aquaponics and explains how you can grow clean, fresh and organic fish and vegetables in your own backyard.

2008-12-07 | en

Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work

In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered people for four days of learning and working in the forest. The observational film follows along as participants in the festival plant hundreds of fig, pawpaw, and persimmon saplings, give away fruit trees to neighbors of the forest, graft edible pears onto invasive trees, learn to mix herbal medicines, and restore an area of forest that had been recently disturbed by illegal demolition work.

2023-01-01 | en