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A history of the Edison Company, the pioneering film production company begun by Thomas A. Edison. Included are more than 140 complete films produced...
Edison: The Invention of the Movies
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.
The Film That Was Lost
“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
A six-part documentary recording the 74-year-old Edison's collaborations with his staff, conversations with industrial leaders, and supervision of...
A Day with Thomas A. Edison
A short film in which the members of the Motion Pictures Patents Company (which had been founded only a year earlier) congratulate Thomas Edison...
Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
The Golden Twenties
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire,...
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The holder of more patents than any other inventor in...
Edison
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and...
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6...
Okay for Sound
An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his...
The Extraordinary Voyage
The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...
The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there...
The Crash of 1929
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
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