Most Viewed Year 1912 - 73

An antisemitic father tries to have his illegitimate son by a Jewish mother killed.

Film of George V's Delhi Durbar, the first attended by a British sovereign. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Based on the play by Isidore Solotarevsky.

Short comedy about the little boy Fifi who experiences all kinds of adventures.

Recordings of various old crafts in Auvergne such as a coppersmith, ragpicker, wagonmaker, shoemaker, cooper and a 'centennial cobbler'. Further...

A dog escapes from home and is chased by two dog catchers, who soon find out that catching this hound is a bit more difficult than they would first...

The IOC’s official films project team has assembled 67 minutes of footage from the Antwerp Games, almost all of it produced by a Swedish film...

A tour of the "ethno-geographical" and "zoological gardens" in Hamburg, Germany, which weaved the global ideas of the end of the century 19th century...

Compilation film.

A young man accidently gets hold of a telescope, which he quickly finds good use for. First, he studies a woman’s slender ankles up close....

Comedy short.

A married couple is employing the pretty Anna as their domestic servant, but the wife does not like her because her husband loves her too much. The...

Comedy short.

The Dytiscus is a species of the water beetle and they are abundant in stagnant water. The pictures give an unusually accurate idea of the...

I don't know how salamanders got the reputation of living in fire. but there are no flames to be seen in the 1912 science short about the critters....

Scorpions are among the creepier land animals, and this nature short from Eclair lets its audience see that for themselves, with their scuttling...