Silent Movies

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 22nd, 1919.

An aging artist confronts his traumatic past as he paints a portrait of the beachside home he grew up in.

An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we...

Released in 1901

Released on August 17th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a...

An exceptional cinematographic document on Emilio Comici, shot in 1938 in Val Rosandra by a MGM operator. The documentary shows Comici with the...

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....

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

"This noted place is due to rank high in history as the proving grounds of America's pluck. Every American man, woman and child should see this."...

A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile, the rich man must fend off his brother-in-law,...

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...

Chicago streets.

A Buddhist priest and a geisha become mutually involved in a forbidden love affair. Lost film.

Three rock climbing ascents in Val Bregaglia, Italy by Karl Freimann and Philipp Wieland, who made the first ascent of Fiamma in 1936. The film...

USPS workers go bowling.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

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

Nearly a century ago, two filmmakers traveled to Germany to shoot an homage to the 1922 film, Nosferatu, and visit the graves of those who made the...

This biographical portrait of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), feature-length and lavishly produced, was released in conjunction with the...