A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding baby his lunch, while mum is serving tea.

Na hun werkdag verlaten de arbeiders van de Lumièrefabriek te Lyon hun post en vertrekken ze richting huis. Een man opent de poorten en de arbeiders stromen toe. Eerst komen de vrouwelijke arbeiders, met uitzondering van een klein aantal mannelijke, naar buiten en later worden ze gevolgd door enkele mannen die met de fiets vertrekken. Uiteindelijk sluit dezelfde man de poorten terug en het scherm wordt zwart.

Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul’s peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a young boy boxing with a kangaroo. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film.

The development that reached the city of Recife on the second anniversary of the administration of Sergio Lorêto, governor of the State.

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

De film bestaat uit een scène waarin een stoomtrein op het station van La Ciotat aankomt. Diagonaal komt er een spoorlijn in beeld met op het perron reizigers, wachtend in hun zondagse pak. Een bagageloper loopt op de camera af. De stoomlocomotief nadert en houdt links in beeld stil, waarna reizigers uitstappen en anderen zich klaarmaken om in te stappen. Het verhaal gaat dat tijdens de eerste vertoningen het publiek in paniek wegdeinsde en er een massahysterie zou zijn ontstaan. De mensen begrepen niet wat ze zagen en waren daadwerkelijk bang dat ze werkelijk overreden zouden worden. Dit verhaal was destijds in de wereld geholpen om publiciteit voor de film te genereren.

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when closed in meditation on sorrow.

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.

Korte film: In een lange, doorschijnende rok, uitgestrekt door haar handen met uitgestrekte armen, treedt Broadway-danseres Annabelle Moore op. Haar dans benadrukt de beweging van het vloeiende doek. Ze beweegt zich naar rechts en naar links over een onopgesmukt podium. Veel van de prenten werden in handgekleurde kleuren verspreid.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.

Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, they find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another. As they delve into their personal narratives, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to this desolate predicament, they navigate through the depths of three distinct destinies. Bound by the confines of their shared space, every aspect of their existence becomes a boundary, underscoring their plight.

The story of Henrik, who takes part in a student exchange program with France. The only reason for this journey is to conquer the heart of his dream girl. Wild Partys, exciting trips, a crazy host family and of course his trouble with the French language turn the - at first unmeant - holidays into a memorable summer.

Als tijdens de Punische oorlogen verwarring ontstaat doordat de Etna uitbarst, ziet een groep piraten kans het Romeinse meisje Cabiria te ontvoeren. Ze wordt verkocht aan Carthago waar ze aan de god Moloch geofferd zal worden.

A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her of her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college returns.

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

De dertienjarige Ahmed zit gevangen tussen de absolute idealen van zijn imam en de verlokkingen van het leven. Wanneer hij uiteindelijk een weg kiest en het pad bewandelt, besluit hij zijn lerares te vermoorden.