Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works

The workers talk about the pleasure of starting work in a shipyard, the pride of making the vessel, and the recognition of workers and the high spirit...

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the firs...

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar A...

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.

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...

This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon...

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB),Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and ev...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

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...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.