The Story of Petroleum

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in Am...

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doin...

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

Visitors at a historical fair in the mediaeval city of Dresden.

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan...

In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storey...

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and...

In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the fore...

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs hal...

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large...

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine wit...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops locat...

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

Educational short film about the solar eclipse

Danish documentary filmed in Greenland. Shows a lot of Greenlanders, skiing, hunting for birds, seal...