Silent Movies

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

A lone wanderer treks the solitary landscape of devoid suburbia, and something is missing... who is he? Where does he come from?

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

Released on March 9th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in 1901

Released in 1901

Starring female impersonator Malcolm Scott.

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made...

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 25th, 1919.

A jar of Cheez Whiz careens wildly through a Treasure Island Foods at 3460 N. Broadway, Chicago, Illinois. Cheez Whiz was Norm Bruns' first film. It...

A young woman re-lives her past relationship through a series of silhouettes in the night's sky.

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

Rock climbing on the "Cobbler". Awarded first prize by Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival

Released on July 6th, 1919.

Two friends, hiking in the Yorkshire Dales, take the Cove Road home. But is the Cove Road out to take them?

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

Female impersonator Julian Eltinge appears in the cast.

A man and a woman in a mountaineering tour on the Blackfoot Glacier in the Glacier National Park. They cross the glacier, negotiating big crevasses...