Silent Movies

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

When her traveling theatrical group goes broke, Poppy, an actress in the troupe, finds herself stranded in Singapore. She's reduced to working in a...

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

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

Chicago streets.

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

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...

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious...

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

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

A film record of a Soviet expedition to Pamir, not to be confused with Krysha Mira, a different 1928 expedition film also about Pamir, directed by...

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he...

Released in 1930. Direction, production, writing & cinematography by Adam Krzeptowski

During an ascent of Canigou, a traveler falls into a precipice, his body rolling to the bottom of the abyss on the glistening snow of the glacier....

Anna Q. Nilsson plays a shy telegrapher who foils a gang of train robbers in this vintage short subject directed by J.P. McGowan.

A Young Skater repeatedly fails to learn a new trick and begins to doubt his skills.

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the...