Silent Movies

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made...

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls....

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

Released in 1901

Released in 1901

Released in 1901

Chicago streets.

The first known film directed by Guido Seeber and the oldest surviving German animated film. A white piece of chalk first draws a clock on a screen....

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

Consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across Elam's lawn.

The three fat boys make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers.

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious...

USPS workers go bowling.

At a party, a girl tells a group of people an old tale about a boy who encounters a mysterious man carrying a lantern and a picnic basket on a rural...

Released in 1901

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions...

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.