Appointment by Telephone (1902)
Genre : Comedy
Runtime : 1M
Director : Edwin S. Porter
Synopsis
A businessman makes a luncheon appointment with a young lady, but finds that his wife disapproves of the arrangement.
Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.
Directed by Paul Rotha.
Brooklyn, Fulton Street
Culebra, an island off Puerto Rico, is used by the USA as a target area for bombing practice with live ammunition. The documentary depicts the struggles of the people of Culebra as they take increasingly militant action to put a stop to the target practice bombing of the area.
Newsreel of the visit of sultan Mehmed V Resad to Bitola.
Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.
Filmed in Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow’s loft in New York, the film covers a day of friends visiting, writing and drawing from noon of one day to dawn the next day.
A procession of automobiles.
In 1967, a group of African-American teenagers in Philadelphia made a hybrid documentary/dramatization of their lives in the 12th and Oxford Street gang. In 1968, The Jungle, one of the first films in the US directed by youth detailing the inner workings of their own gang, went on to win the Documentary Film Award at the Festival de Popoli, Italy.
Newsreel footage of the 1937 steelworkers strikes
A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.
Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to interview women and girls about their work in the textile industry, their spare-time occupations, about their thoughts and feelings.
Scene Bowery. Young woman drops her handkerchief while passing a Rube. He picks it up and gives it to her. She induces him to go into a side door of a saloon. Second scene, saloon. Rube and woman enter, take seats at table and order drinks. While the Rube is paying for same, woman puts knock-out drops in the Rube's glass. They drink and the Rube falls asleep. Woman takes all his valuables and leaves. Waiter wakes him up. He discovers his watch gone, fights with waiter, and is thrown out. Third scene, outside of saloon. Police patrol drawn up. They put Rube in and drive off.
In this short, a camera pointed towards a window films the landscape as a train moves along the track.
A typical school day showing the educational system of the era.
Newsreel about the opening of the casina in Vina del Mar (Chile).
Vidor and Wyeth discuss the influence of The Big Parade on Wyeth and the use of metaphors in art
A short film produced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities documenting demonstration and rioting during the San Francisco hearings.
Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first half of the 20th century. It includes photos by Jack Delano, among others, and scenarios to reconstruct the experience of what could have been the last trip made by train from San Juan to Ponce in 1953.
