Silent Movies

Government travelogue depicting New Zealand's West land's scenery: Lake Manapouri, Fox Glacier Hotel, and Franz Josef Glacier. From the Fox Glacier...

Kupferberg Gold ad by Pinschewer.

Released in 1922.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

During a railway journey, Baron van Geldern meets Evelyne, an attractive young woman travelling in the same carriage. After the train is derailed,...

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

This short film follows the story of two gay men in Mumbai who meet and fall in love in regular train journeys. Burdened with the larger social (and...

Based on George Ade's story about a wealthy young man whose life is changed by his love for a gardener's daughter, transforming him into a more...

The woman’s life who owns a pet changes overnight. “That Also Breathes” is a short film that will make you rethink your animal...

Jacqueline learns her father’s wrongdoing, gives away his ill-gotten wealth, and begins a new life as Judex watches over her from the shadows.

A man contacts the dead.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

Abstract short.

As a grieving widow clings to the memory of her husband, a quiet friend watches from a distance-holding in his hands the sight of the fact that the...

Klettern im Fels (in English, "Rock Climbing") is a German silent documentary about rock climbing. It was directed by the cameraman Hermann Schadock...

A film by Richard 'Dick' Leonard produced by the American Alpine Club about mountaineering in Sierra Nevada (California). Richard Manning Leonard was...

"A Silent Rockumentary" is the world's first documentary about a music band that is told as a silent film. It is exclusively the band's rousing and...

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....

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