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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

2011

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.

5.3

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

1895

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

6.0

Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke)

1966

Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke.

6.0

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

1888

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

0.0

La remise des décorations

1903

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.

0.0

Sperduti nel buio

2014

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across Europe following the trail of the lost movie.

0.0

Censored!

1999

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

7.0

Encierro de toros

1898

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.