This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including…

The world’s press gather at Dover, England awaiting a threatened German attack.

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.

This feature documentary offers a complete record of the 1939 Royal Tour of Canada by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The film opens as the royal couple makes a…

Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.

Few amateur films with sound were produced in the 1930s and fewer remain extant. A charming artifact that demonstrates the expressive possibilities and technical limitations of amateur talkies, “The Spider…

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States. It laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber…

This advocacy documentary about the Lincoln Brigade was shot during the Spanish Civil War to raise funds for bringing wounded American volunteers home. Some 2,800 Americans enlisted in the International…

This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify and extols the “benefits” of euthanasia.

Night Mail is a short (25 minute) black and white documentary made in 1936. It shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run,…

“The Immortal Swan”, is a 1935 documentary tribute filmed not long after Pavlova’s death that depicts the star dancing, including her most famous solo, “The Dying Swan”.

Public information film aimed at the unemployed, commissioned by the Ministry of Labour.

A lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbass who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the Five Year Plan.

A series of short movies in which Hollywood actresses including Phyllis Crane and Raquel Torres model Spring fashions in colour.

A nature documentary depicting the variety of changes undergone by plants and animals as the seasons of the year change. A deer is shown shedding his antlers, then growing new…

A look at an exhibition in Reval (now known as Tallinn).

This small Promotional Film showed Greta and a group of friends. They have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand Hôtel and later having a picnic in the park.

The film is a commercial for the department store PUB in Stockholm . It is the film debut for Greta Garbo who at that time was working as a clerk…

Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California. In early 1913 as…

Lost educational film on the effects of alcohol abuse.

Documentary featuring the ascent of the Matterhorn (Cervino) completed in 1911 by Mario Piacenza along the guides of Valtournenche Joseph Gaspard and Joseph Carrel .

A short film about a dirigible.

Alice Guy films the sea.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving….

A group of carriers leaving a building.

Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the…

Shows a tramp enter and try to ride a wheel, from which he makes some very ludicrous falls and gives up in despair, after which an artist enters and jumps…

Railroad from Georgetown to Silver Plume, Colorado.

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

One of Alberto Santos Dumont’s dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

A street scene with a government building in the background.

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor) Nicholas II. Shows distinguished guests entering a carriage, parade of troops and carriages, Nicholas II and…

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy’s river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground, each riding his horse as it swims across toward…

A street scene in Berlin near Hallesches Tor.

Two dancers perform in succession facing a stationary camera. The first is in a diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended. She smiles, wearing butterfly wings on…

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

Chickens are scared of a torpedo.