Watch the dawn of sound: how movies learned to talk Soap2Day. Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
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Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family wi...
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The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
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The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps...
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A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
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Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
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A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th...
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This film is a story from the Mahabharatam where Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas, resists the advances of Keechaka, a lustful general in the court...
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A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.
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Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser...
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The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957),on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...
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Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
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King James' agent saves a Dutch princess and marries her as the King's proxy.
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Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...
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A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'...