Watch dickson greeting FMovies. 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 first film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company to be shown to public audiences and the press.
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In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist...
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A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature,...
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Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...
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A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...
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An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in the...
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This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...
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Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore...
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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.
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A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.
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Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
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Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.