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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...

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...

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

Footage of the expedition leaving Antarctica from New Zealand shot by government cameraman James McDonald. His excellency Admiral Sir Wilmot...

A short documentary detailing the forging of a katana.

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

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 on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understandable focus on Italian athletes, but it is the...

It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.

Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of...