The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

A brief portrait of famous and brave bullfighter Manuel Benítez el Corbobés; an account on still photos of his triumphs and failures.

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

This drama is about Gilan's downfall in 1920th under onslaught of Iran's shah & English army.

The Sixth Sense

Boys play a rough game of leap frog.

Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves to reflect the meditative interiority of the artist independent of any human presence. ... New York is framed in the dark nights of a lonely winter. The pulse of street life finds no role in NEW YORK PORTRAIT; the dense metropolitan population and imposing urban locale disappear before Hutton's concern for the primal force of a universal presence. With an eye for the ordinary, Hutton can point his camera toward the clouds finding flocks of birds, or turn back to the simple objects around his apartment struggling to elicit a personal intuition from their presence. ... Hutton finds a harmonious, if at times melancholy, rapport with the natural elements that retain their grace in spite of the city's artificial environment. The city becomes a ghost town that the filmmaker transforms into a vehicle reflecting his personal mood.

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

Jardins du Luxembourg

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

A steamboat coming to port.

Teasing tigers with meat.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be seen.

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely shot in 1897 but not screened in France until the 10th of December 1899.

One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.

A large ship embarking.