Watch the magic lantern HDToday. The Magic Lantern is a non-narrated celebration of early cinema and silent-film imagination, exploring the early work of pioneers such as Georges Méliès, Eadweard Muybridge, Segundo de Chomón, and Émile Cohl.
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Documentary illustrating the birth of sound cinema.
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This non-narrative short film examines one of the great American icons: the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. The film was conceived by its...
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A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.
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The Antwerp Zoo covers a fair extent of ground, and was already in 1910 generally considered as an important one. A large number of views of birds...
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Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of...
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Remarkable life story of Henri Diamant-Berger, a director and screenwriter whose devotion to cinema led him to collaborate with some of the greatest...
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The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film...
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An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but...
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In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford...
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Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film...