Prussian Culture

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.

A hand drawing of an incomplete Felix the cat is the beginning of comicalamities. Felix went to a man who could finish his body and give him a black color because he was not satisfied with the result....

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be seen.

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

A high-speed travel through Paris on trains and on the Seine.

A short Surrealist animation from Denmark which begins with a zoom into a Paul Delvaux painting, then reverses the process by pulling back from a continually changing picture.

A Berlin street scene.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

19th century carnival ride.

Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not ready yet, and the gap had to be fil...

"Studie II (Hallucinationer)" (Study II (Hallucinations)) (1952), comprises twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs a...

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, s...

A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.