Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip 123Movies. “The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In the background will be seen one of their "Topeks," a sealskin tent in which they live during their short summer.” (Edison catalog)
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This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and...
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The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...
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Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
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The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince...
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A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.
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A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature,...
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Short documentary on the Antwerp Ford Motor Company plant.
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Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one...
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A day in the life of a train station.
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A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...
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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...