Touring Holland by Bicycle shows a group of people sitting around a table. After a short time, they stand up and start running around the table, faster and faster until you have the idea that you are in a carousel.
A repeating journey across the San Francisco Bay Bridge becomes a journey into disintegrating visuals, video transformation, with an accompanying sound track taken from "40 years of Radio". As a film, it anticipated the end of the film medium, and the emergence of the video medium.
Short animal exploitation film with images of snakes having unsuspecting rabbits placed in their cage. The rabbits are hopping around and sniffing at them until they are grabbed and strangled.
An artist fantasises about the poses his model could take.
A short film made by Medvedkin, documenting the lack of hygiene in the Red Army.
As only National Geographic can, The Great Quake tells the terrifying and inspiring tale of a pitched battle between man and nature told by the stories of people who lived through it. On April 18, 1906 the greatest natural disaster in American history strikes without warning. Concrete buildings explode into clouds of dust and rubble and fires break out by the thousands. For the next three days, San Francisco's corrupt and charismatic Mayor takes the helm of this city under siege, making decisions that are swift and radical. This is the terrifying and inspiring tale of a pitched battle between man and nature told by the stories of people who lived through it.
A silent short documentary directed by Hans Ammann.
A silent short documentary produced by Dix-Film.
A silent short documentary directed by Norman Dix.
A silent short documentary directed by Norman Dix.
A silent short documentary produced by Weid-Film.
A silent short documentary directed by Norman Dix.
Clumsy but lovable young man named Buki wanders around beach at the Sava river and old Belgrade airport.
"Straight Outta Hunters Point", the award-winning Hip Hop documentary by Hunters Point filmmaker Kevin Epps is a stark cinematic portrait of a community struggling to stop the forces of gentrification -- denial of jobs, police brutality, environmental racism and more -- that have pushed 23 percent of San Francisco's Black population out of the City in the past decade. It has won the acclaim of critics and audiences at independent film festivals around the U.S., including Sundance and the Santa Fe Film Fest, where it was described as "a gritty, uncompromising film about the evolution and perseverance of a black culture in the shadow of poverty, race riots and gang-related rap wars."
If you love beautiful and zany architecture you will marvel at the gems offered in this amusing short subject from the golden age of Hollywoodland. It happily cuts to the many residential and commercial districts showing off the 'fantasy architecture' that flourished during California's building boom.
The outlawed Earl of Huntington took to the woods, as we say in America, and with his merry archers had a good time in Sherwood Forest with winsome Maid Marian and jolly Friar Tuck. The adventures of Robin Hood makes an attractive subject for a pretty film. The first appearance of Robin Hood on the screen.
Silent documentary directed by Walter Fischer
On the proletarian solidarity of the French navy with the revolutionary people of Russia. The action takes place in the early years of Soviet power in the coastal city of Russia. The French cruiser Mirabeau threatens the city from the sea.