The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the...

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

Filmed in 1896 by the Lumière brothers, this short actuality captures a dramatic cavalry charge by cuirassiers — heavily armed horsemen...

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at...

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature,...