San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 (1906)

New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.

This two-color (green-blue and red) film was produced as a demonstration reel at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, under the direction of Kodak scientist John Capstaff. It features leading actresses, including Mae Murray, Hope Hampton, and Mary Eaton, posing and miming for the camera to showcase the capability of the complex Kodachrome process to capture their translucent movie star complexions and colorful, high-fashion clothing. (loc.gov)

An animated short film created by the artist Jeff Scher.

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.

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

President McKinley taking the Oath.

Paris seen from a boat, in this Lumière short film.

Carriages and crowds cross a grassy area.

A man is drinking wine, pukes it up, and eats it. He repeats it for a while, until he starts to rub the vomit all over himself.

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

Short of the Tuileries.

Uses time-lapse photography to show the physical power of plants in their efforts to receive sunlight and fulfill their growth.

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.’

Played on a distant television screen in the dark (with some additional zooms by Lawler), 'Runaway' mainly consists of looped footage of what looks like a Fleischer or Terry cartoon, in which a group of dogs, intrigued by surrounding sounds, run to the left of the screen, and then to the right, back and forth, while a frenzied, spiraling organ score plays over the top. The scene eventually begins to warp and disintegrate. The result is equal parts mind-numbing and hypnotic.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

Moon Breath Beat is a hand-drawn experimental 2D film that depicts a woman and her two cats and how external forces such as birds and the moon impact their lives.

Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument.

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