Slagterboderne ("Maven")

The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera, also responsible for Gaucho Nobility...

The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film...

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of...

Short documentary film on the beauty contest of children held at Torino. Some sequences are used in Peter Delpeut's Lyrisch nitraat.

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vacant lot, the troupe parades through the grand...

The Antwerp Zoo covers a fair extent of ground, and was already in 1910 generally considered as an important one. A large number of views of birds...