'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a...

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress...

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

This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the...

Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to...

Modern Americans think that the movies learned to talk in 1927 when Al Jolson opened his mouth in THE JAZZ SINGER, but sound pictures had a much...

A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of The Paris Sisters' "Dream Lover".

Puce Moment is a short 6 minute film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, filmed in 1949. Puce Moment resulted from the...

A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.

Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony. Ocean waves form merbabies who are...

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.

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...

An escaped buffalo triggers a frenzy of ecstatic violence in a remote village.

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but...

The first travelling shot.

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water...

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West...

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military...