Silent Movies

An outdoor gathering.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

The three fat boys make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers.

Released on August 17th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

USPS workers go bowling.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Chicago streets.

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a...

Released in 1901

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...

Adeline, a small mutt makes her enthusiasm for food and classic French cinema clear, specifically her love for Jean-Luc Godard films.

The first known film directed by Guido Seeber and the oldest surviving German animated film. A white piece of chalk first draws a clock on a screen....

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence...

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Digging in the woods.

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single...

Four people experience loneliness in different parts of a town.

What happens to art when it loses its artist?