This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.
A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.
On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set foot on the North Pole. He was greeted by the king, and given an honorary doctorate at the University of Copenhagen. Only a few days later, however, his endeavour was questioned, and in December the University rejected Cook's documentation. Carl Th. Dreyer is seen as one of the journalists taking notes. (DFI)
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.
A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.
Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.
Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.
A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.
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.
Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.
A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.
One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.
A large ship embarking.
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.
Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties.
Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).