Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy...

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

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

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

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

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

The first travelling shot.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink,...

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.