The Thunderbolts: Ramrod to Emden

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

A daredevil rides his bicycle down a ramp and attempts to land in a pool of water as a crowd of spectators watches.

A large number of workers, mostly young women, leave by the front door of their work place at lunch time. The building has an impressive colonnaded...

A Berlin street scene.

Filmed in 1896 by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company, this short actuality presents one of the earliest traveling shots in cinema. With...

Five black and white minstrels dancing and playing musical instruments in Rupert Street, London.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

This picture was taken at one of the curves on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, along the beautiful Susquehanna River. The train is seen rapidly...

Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don and Mildred's hygienic endeavors.

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent...