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David Austin, a Scottish scholar of the Orient, befriends Awang Dunzhu on the bustling streets of Kathmandu, not knowing that the two will soon both become translators for opposing sides in the British invasion of Tibet.
A Béla Vajda Cartoon
To film this event, the camera was placed inside the rail, on the track surface itself. As the film begins, in the foreground a gate opens and a horse ridden by a jockey is escorted across the track, followed by several
100 years of the biggest Portuguese sports institution, a century of glory in the world of sports.
Trade Guilds' Parade at Christiansborg Ridebane in 1904.
Welshman and revivalist Evan Roberts is the subject of this program that tells Roberts's life story and examines his role in the 1904 revival of Christianity in Wales. Told from Roberts's viewpoint, the program uses cont
A film initiated by the Cinémathèque Française (France - 2007) The Cinémathèque Française digitized, restored and reanimated more than 400 fragile cellulose nitrate films of Etienne-Jules Marey’s work. These 400 incun
First chapter of the series of 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. The film narrates the entrance of Mexico into the new century, accompanied by technological advances, such as film and its impact and
People on street outside bunting draped building. VIP's out & photographers take pictures. Park & subway entrance. Old bobby helmets on police as VIP's into subway. Pan over waving people with trolley behind and carriage
The Great Toronto Fire was a devastating blaze that destroyed 122 buildings and put 5,000 people out of work. The fire started in a clothing warehouse on Wellington Street and quickly spread, gutting thirteen acres of To
ravel back in time to the 1893 World’s Fair with its grandiose buildings and displays of “exotic” people from around the world. The fairs promoted America’s interest in overseas expansion and notions of Anglo-Saxon super
Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.
Baby Parade at Asbury Park, N.J., in 1904.
Film made by cinema Juan José Pont in Peru.
Uses first-person accounts from Missourians who went to the Fair in 1904, interviews with historians, archival motion pictures, and photographs to situate the St. Louis Fair in the social, political, and cultural context
An automobile race.
The wedding of Armand De Guiche and Élaine Greffulhe.