Motion Picture History

Curtain opens in movie theater. Audience looks at screen, theater…

Hand moves slot on magic lantern. Project image of horse seems to run.…

Baroque movie theater. People look at advertisements outside of theater…

Girl’s foot on treadle. Slide of man on horseback rapidly change until…

Upside down, animated slides. Sped up animation of man and woman in…

Man rides on horseback. Man films riding, close up on hand cranking…

Man runs reels with projected animation on screen before him. Man…

Nanook and family in igloo before starting the day of hunting, Nanook…

Guillotine operator lets French military officer know that the…

Actress Marianne Faithfull, dressed in a shinny black leather jumpsuit…

Musical clip of Brigitte Bardot singing about motorcycles. She is…

Some red carpet shots of film actress Mae West surrounded by the press…