
07 Nov 1918

Anniversary of the Revolution
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.
07 Nov 1918
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
23 Mar 1902
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
31 Aug 1896
A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.
01 Jan 1897
Lumière's documents life in Palestine.
09 Sep 1976
A documentary filmed by reporter Peter Taylor with interviews both of Phillip Morris executives and of cowboys in the American west. Taylor contrasts the executives' noncommittal answers to the question of cigarettes being harmful with the stories of men who smoked cigarettes and are now dying of lung cancer and emphysema. The film was removed from circulation after a lawsuit from Phillip Morris, but is now available to watch.
25 Sep 1969
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
06 Jan 1896
The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul’s peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a young boy boxing with a kangaroo. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film.
08 Aug 1900
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the pioneers of the British film industry, G.A. Smith, this short film details spiders trapped in an enclosure, and despite the title, does not actually feature a web.
08 Aug 1900
Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.
09 Jun 1896
These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium of the foundation of the kingdom of Hungary. Horsemen and men on foot parade, all dressed in historic uniforms.
14 Aug 1908
Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new Kinemacolor system, which features a woman displaying assorted tartan cloths, both draped on her body and waved semaphore-style. The patterned handkerchiefs are, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, “presumably the same cloths featured in Tartans of Scottish Clans (1906), this time shown from various angles.”
08 Nov 1896
Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.
06 Mar 1897
A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
04 Mar 1900
People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.
01 Jan 1895
Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.
13 Jul 1897
The main market square in the heart of Brussels.
03 Nov 1896
Coach W. Hickenbotham takes "Newhaven" out of his box and places the horse at the center of the paddock. Gardiner, the jockey, saddles up the horse, rides it and begins to spin, slowly.
06 Sep 1896
A street scene in Berlin near Hallesches Tor.
01 Apr 1903
Panorama of the port of Algiers.
18 Dec 1896
A street scene with a government building in the background.