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Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature

1991

This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores the life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live their and the scientist that work there.

6.7

Anniversary of the Revolution

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.

5.0

Danse japonaise, III : Gueichas en Jinrikcha

1902

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

4.7

Butterfly Dance

1896

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

6.3

La Palestine en 1896

1897

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

5.5

One Second in Montreal

1969

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

5.8

Brush of Baphomet

2009

A look at the artwork of Aleister Crowley.

4.3

The Boxing Kangaroo

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.

4.0

Spiders on a Web

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.

5.4

Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)

1900

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

1.0

Budapest : cortège du sceptre royal

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.

3.7

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs

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.”

5.0

Lyon : sauvetage de lapins

1896

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

4.3

Washington, le président McKinley adressant son message au peuple

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.

5.5

Arles : la sortie de St-Trophime

1900

People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.

5.2

Lyon, place Bellecour

1895

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

4.8

Bruxelles, Grand’Place

1897

The main market square in the heart of Brussels.

4.3

Melbourne, les courses : présentation du vainqueur

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.

5.0

Panorama du port d'Alger

1903

Panorama of the port of Algiers.

4.4

Alger : place du gouvernement

1896

A street scene with a government building in the background.

Genre	Documentary
Production Companies	Lumière
Production Ccountries	France

Berlin, Hallesches Thor

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