Боздид аз ҳама Соли 1905

A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

A schoolclass in seen outside in Macedonia.

A mass gathering of people.

Renowned market leader Pathé Frères was specialized in filming elaborate Biblical stories. Here the life of Moses is told in six scenes.

Early Balkan footage.

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

The parade of Serbian army in Macedonian town.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

The Manaki brothers document the elegant wedding of a presumably popular couple.

Early Balkan footage.

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

The formal name of the peep show machine was the Mutoscope -- at least when it was manufactured by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, which...

Martyrs of the Inquisition

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they...

Early Balkan footage.