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6.2

Czechoslovakia 1968

1969

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.

5.0

The Last Ice Merchant

2012

For the last 53 years, Baltazar Ushca has harvested glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador. His brothers, Gregorio and Juan, have long since retired from the mountain. This is a tale of cultural change in a small indigenous community and how three brothers have adapted to it.

5.6

Canyon

1970

“A silent perusal of the Grand Canyon, morning to night, from a single, fixed camera position, by means of constant dissolves spaced a few seconds apart. Man — entirely absent — is no longer the center of the universe; the canyon exists outside of him. Despite the invisible photographer and his technologically-caused dissolves, this is a creditable approximation of the true foreign-ness of nature.” — Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art (1974)

0.0

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933

Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

5.8

The Old South

1940

This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.

7.0

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

2004

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.

6.4

Vikings: Journey to New Worlds

2004

Filmmaker Marc Fafard examines the historical and cultural significance of the seafaring Vikings.

6.6

Mechanical Principles

1930

Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts turn some mechanism that is out of sight. Screws revolve and move other gears; a bit rotates. More subtle mechanisms move other mechanical parts for unknown purposes. Weights rise and fall. The movements, underscored by sound, are rhythmic. Circles, squares, rods, and teeth are in constant and sometimes asymmetrical motion. These human-made mechanical bits seem benign and reassuring.

5.3

Repas en famille

1897

A Japanese family having tea.

5.1

Beppie

1965

BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin. Van der Keuken once described her as follows: 'She was ten years old and the joy of the Achtergracht, where I was living at the time. An Amsterdam child, sweet and crooked as a corkscrew.' He films her while she skims the city with some friends and knocks at strangers' doors. Her family has nine children and is not well off. In those days, a visit to the De Miranda swimming pool cost a quarter, but only ten cents if the weather was bad. At school, Beppie gets a poor mark because she is too boisterous, but when the whole class rattles off the multiplication tables, she joins in at the top of her voice. All of TV-watching Holland was wildly enthusiastic about this portrait, with which Van der Keuken even made the front page of the national newspaper De Telegraaf.

5.0

Ballet Libella

1897

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

5.2

The Pyramids (Overview)

1897

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

5.3

Jérusalem : porte de Jaffa, côté Est

1897

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

4.8

Danse au bivouac

1896

Soldiers dancing.

4.6

Horses Bathing

1896

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

4.2

Escrime au sabre

1898

Sailors training with swords.

4.9

Carmaux, chargement du coke

1896

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

6.2

To Fly!

1976

Early IMAX documentary about the development of human flight.

5.4

Retour d’une promenade en mer

1896

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

3.2

First Avenue, Seattle, Washington, No. 8

1897

From Edison films catalog: Taken during the Klondike excitement. The streets are crowded with miners buying outfits and supplies. Mule trains, trolley cars and hurrying pedestrians give life and bustle to the scene. 50 feet. $7.50. Advertised as part of the "Northern Pacific Railway Series" (Edison films catalog): The following pictures were taken by our artists at various points on the Northern Pacific Railway. We are greatly indebted to their officials who afforded us every opportunity in their power to obtain these splendid views. Many of the scenes are incident to the excitement prevailing at the time of the Klondike gold rush. They show the resources of this company for handling large numbers of people, baggage, freight and excursion parties, and give to prospective tourists and merchants an idea of the facilities with which this road handles traffic of all kinds (p. 9). (LoC)

Genre	Documentary
Production Companies	Dido-Film
Production Ccountries	Germany

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