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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

1927 · ★ 7.5

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Film-Tract n° 1968

1968 · ★ 6.5

In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is thick red paint flows over a tri-color French flag. —Hye Young Min

The Wheat Industry

Tells the life story of a grain of wheat In Casselton, North Dakota.

The Dangers of the Fly

1920 · ★ 5.4

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera, also responsible for Gaucho Nobility (1915), the biggest blockbuster of Argentinean silent cinema. De la Pera was a talented photographer, always willing to try new gadgets and techniques. This film experiments with microphotography in the style of Jean Comandon's films for Pathé and it is part of a series which included a film about mosquitoes and paludism and another one about cancer, which are considered lost. Flies were a popular subject of silent films and there are more than a dozen titles featuring them in the teens and early twenties.

Days of Thrills and Laughter

1961 · ★ 6

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

El circo

1950 · ★ 6.3

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vacant lot, the troupe parades through the grand avenues: the band, a witty impersonator, the Balodys, acrobats, jugglers, acrobatic skaters, clowns and… Buffallo Bill.

Nanook of the North

1922 · ★ 7.1

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.

Sheep Coming Through Chute, Humuula Ranch, Hawaii

1906

Sheep bound through a narrow opening, followed by a panoramic vista of the flock running through a meadow.

Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest

1896 · ★ 3.8

Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.

Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs

1895 · ★ 4.6

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.

Photographic Studies in Hypnosis: Abnormal Psychology

1938

Silent film showcasing hypnosis and its effects.

The Strength and Agility of Insects

1911 · ★ 6

A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.