The Lascivious Wotan (1971)

A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.

Short movie where a little old man trying to get up from the toilet. He gets a helping hand.

Footage of a bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later.

Study in motion based on Muybridge’s photographs of man running.

An animated short film created by the artist Jeff Scher.

1905 short film showing people walking down a Ljutomer street after mass.

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its soundtrack. Three young men merrily bop through the wreckage of razed buildings at the site of what would become Lincoln Center. Apparently, Scotch Tape was never edited and, instead, was cut in the camera by Smith, combining long shots and close-ups while filming mostly from overhead. The title comes from a small strip of scotch tape that was accidentally stuck on the camera and so is visible in the lower-right corner of the frame throughout the film.

Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master landscapes, short bursts of ‘real-time’ landscapes and shakily photographed gestural watercolors. … ‘a synthesis of all previous techniques.’

An actress and a director run through a melodramatic scene, speaking to a mannequin.

Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children's party.

Archive film showing possibly the first example of digital rendering, made by Pixar co-founders Ed Catmull and Fred Parke in 1972, was stumbled upon by the son of Robert B Ingebretsen, who also set up the world-famous U.S. studio. A six minute version shows additional CGI animation of an artificial heart valve, and human heads.

President McKinley taking the Oath.

Cavalry and foot-soldiers escort President McKinley.

Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.

A persistent trumpeter tries to join a string quartet that doesn't want him.

Six people are grouped in front of a wall as if for a photograph. The entire ceremony is supervised by a seventh person, who, like a photographer, looks at the group from different angles and rearranges the group by hand-signals.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

An early sound film featuring Gus Visser and a duck.

A series of papers flutter in the wind in this short film by Hollis Frampton.