Untitled Early Film

A sonic collage of intermittent speech and Eastern drones intermingles with vibrant color imagery of suspended statute heads, flowers and trinkets. An early Lawrence Jordan film, seemingly untitled.

Landmarks of Early Film

A collection of early silent films.

Early Amateur Sound Film

A montage of some home movies taken by Archie Stewart (1902-1998), an early enthusiast in taken 16 mm sound films of his family. We see his daughters, Mary and Anne, playing in the aftermath of a January, 1936, snowstorm

Tigerstedt's early film sound experiment

The inventor experimented with different sound film methods and apparently screened the world’s first usable sound films in Berlin in 1914 and Copenhagen in 1915. Some of these synchronized sound-on-film images survive.

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894-1941

Unseen Cinema reveals hitherto unknown accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of cinema until World War II, and offers an innovative and often controversial view

Landmarks Of Early Film Volume 2 The Magic Of Méliès

A collection of silent films.

Antonio Bido - Early Films

Early Trick Films

Compilation of EARLY TRICK FILMs using various techniques 'to make the fantastic appear real'. Intertitles occur throughout.

Early Women Filmmakers

More women worked in film's first 20 years than anytime since. Many have been cut from film history, their contributions lost to time. This collection highlights the contributions of 14 important women directors of cinem

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.

Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin

Documentary on Hollywood in the time of Chaplin.

Early British Films from the Filmoteca de Catalunya 1897-1909

A collection of early British Films from the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Films include: Brighton Seagoing Electric Car (1897), The Inexhaustible Cab (1899), From Dalmeny to Dunfermline, Scotland via the Firth of Forth Bridge

Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin

Documentary on Hollywood in the time of Chaplin.

Fairy Tales - Early Colour Stencil films from Pathé

Once upon a time, during the belle epoque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called scenes de feeries, or fairy films, was becoming popular thanks to the Pathe Frerer company. In jewel-like colours the

You Are There: Classic Early Films of Legendary Country Performers

YOU ARE THERE is a video collection of great performances from the early 1950s by some of the most famous and influential country music performers of all time! Here are 6 classic selections by the legendary father of blu

The Language of Shadows: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and His Films: The Early Works

Documentary made in two parts by Luciano Berriatúa. This first part focuses on childhood, personal life and the early works in films by German director F.W. Murnau.

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred Hitchcock's film career, beginning with his success in the production of The Lodger

Pink Beach Red Desert Dream Sand Film

Jennifer West won a 35mm film print of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Red Desert (1964) on Russian Ebay and dragged it along the Pink Beach off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, where some scenes of the film were shot. Fragme

The Language of Shadows: Murnau, the Early Years and 'Nosferatu'

A documentary about F.W. Murnau.