Seeing London (1920)
Burton Holmes, the man who popularized the travelogue, tours central London in 1920.
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Burton Holmes, the man who popularized the travelogue, tours central London in 1920.
The Balinese kris dance, a ceremonial drama of the witch and the dragon, performed in the village of Pagoetan in 1937. Trance included.
A young woman sails to the South Seas to marry her fiance, only to find he has become a drunk. An early talkie romance.
A 3-D visualization takes you through the stars and glowing gas of the star-forming region Sharpless 2-106.
Goodyear's 1920 film about its rubber plantations in Sumatra.
Angelique moves from France to marry an American architect and tries her best to be a good housewife in Los Angeles. A 1961 CBS comedy episode.
Scenic New Orleans: landmarks and downtown streets, in footage that still needs cataloging.
MISR satellite images show the Pine Island iceberg forming as the glacier flows seaward from a growing crack.
A silent travelogue of China and its people, produced by Isaac O. Upham. A dated outsider's view.
A three-member board mediates disputes. A man wants to marry the woman he has known for 15 years, and she hesitates. A 1959 episode.
Outlaw Steve O'Neil robs a stage, kidnaps Nita and heads for Lopez's hideout for a showdown. A 1930 Western.
A coronal mass ejection sweeps past Voyager, far beyond Pluto. Solar wind meets a lonely spacecraft.
Sightseeing in Newark, N.J., 1926: city views, Branch Brook Park, landmarks and downtown streets.
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Amusement park water slides at City of David, Benton Harbor, Michigan, plus Detroit streets and steamships.
A narrated flight over Antarctica as seen by RADARSAT. Satellite radar turns the frozen continent into a computer animation.
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A silent 1930s travelogue of Paris just before World War II: the Eiffel Tower, the Paris Opera, Notre Dame, and every other landmark.
A flyover of Pine Island Glacier on a Landsat mosaic of Antarctica, the continent's fastest moving glacier.
A 32-minute behind-the-scenes tour of MGM's 1925 studios, with stars, directors, writers and crews. Shows how huge the movie business had become.
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A late 1930s travelogue of Panama, from the ruins of early colonization to the Panama Canal and its locks. Gateway to the Pacific.
SeaWiFS watches phytoplankton around the Galapagos before and during El Nino. Warm water arrives, and the blooms change.
A visit to a Florida island of pelicans, with logging, camp cooking, wild ducks and a railroad trip to Silver Springs.
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A 1930s Port O' Call travelogue of Jerusalem, touring the city and the faiths that draw pilgrims there. Silent-era film travel at its most scenic.
A flyby of the Galapagos Islands, rising from the sea floor at the heart of the equatorial current system.
Twelve minutes of ocean fishing with a big family in a small boat and dozens of fish, then whales.
Astronauts crash on Venus and run into its mysterious women, in Peter Bogdanovich's remix of Soviet sci-fi footage starring Mamie Van Doren.
A silent 1930s double feature of historic Spain: a Dutch short on Seville, then Montserrat Abbey. Old cities in black and white.
For Voyager's 30th anniversary, see all four planets it studied in the night sky in September 2007.
A silent 1925 tour of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Culver City studios, opening with a sweeping shot of the lot. Now Sony Pictures Studios.
A weekly 1950 television newsreel about women at work and play, from businesswomen and athletes to housewives and celebrities.
A 1941 film tour of Chicago: parks and boulevards, sports, museums, packing town and industry. The railroad hub shows off.
A slow, looping tour around a model of solar coronal loops, built from SOHO magnetogram data.
A silent travelogue to the Canadian wilderness, with moose, lakes and big-sky vacation scenery.
A short fragment of Vincente Minnelli, Alma Hearst, and George Gershwin's dog Tony out in the Hollywood Hills. Tony stands on muddy ground.
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U.S. Marines see Rio de Janeiro on a sightseeing tour, with long shots from cable cars and boats.
Horace Cayton's book Black Metropolis, a Washington boys club called the Junior Police and Citizens Corps, and more. A 1945 newsreel for Black audiences.
Tropical Cyclone Zoe slams South Pacific islands on December 29, 2002, with winds above 186 mph. NASA zooms in on the storm.
A silent 1929 Harvard anthropology film on the Batak people of Sumatra, from a series on peoples and cultures of the world. A dated academic outsider's view.
A 1943 Army newsreel on air raids, the rebuilding of the Munda airstrip by Black engineer troops and the Fifth Army's push through Italy.
Tropical Depression 14 heads toward Cuba on October 15, 2002, losing strength. NASA zooms in to show its rain structure.
A 1928 world cruise on film, with no further description.
A 1940 Dodge-sponsored tour of American history, resources, industry and agriculture, set to a patriotic drumbeat.
Cities run 1 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than their surroundings. NASA animates how that heat changes rain around coastal cities.
A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton, shot from a tram in 1900.
A 1930s Kodak teaching film on Japanese-occupied Manchukuo: mines, steel mills, railroads, new housing and street life. Silent and very much of its time.
A short animation from Kaaatie titled V1RUS. Details are sparse, so expect a surprise.
Theodore Roosevelt comes home in 1910 to a huge New York welcome, with Cornelius Vanderbilt and crowds at the Battery. A newsreel of June 18.
An early look at tourism in the American West, with a stop at Bryce Canyon's rock spires. Postcard scenery, vintage style.
A week-long, 180-mile trip down the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from Cumberland to Washington, with working locks and a hand-dug tunnel. 1917.
A 1941 trip through Rio de Janeiro, Santos and Sao Paulo, following coffee from harvest to shipping.
The 25 winners of a contest to promote Mary Pickford's first sound film, Coquette. A 1929 sales stunt, preserved.
A film about the Penn School in South Carolina's Sea Islands, its history and role in teaching Black students skills for self-reliance. 1942.
A silent 1928 Harvard anthropology travelogue: Mongolians on horseback, traditional hairstyles and clothing, and everyday customs. A dated outsider's view.
Beach and seaside scenes from the Lumière brothers' catalog, filmed in La Ciotat, France. Sea air, 1896.
Gertie the dinosaur, who lives in the present day, meets a train and dreams of being the life of the party. Excerpts from the Winsor McCay classic.
A ride backward over New York's S curve on the elevated railway, shot from the front platform of a special train. Rooftops, towers and passing trains.
The Fifteenth Infantry in campaign uniforms and gear on Governor's Island, New York, captured around the turn of the century.
Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, filmed at Gibraltar on his way home in September 1899.
Committees visit Admiral Dewey aboard the cruiser Olympia in 1899, an Edison actuality of a very formal handshake.
Admiral Dewey stands before the camera on the cruiser Olympia and says goodbye to a Washington committee. An 1899 Edison actuality.
A camel caravan up the Nile meets a tribe of Bicharyn Arabs who perform and show off their children. A 1908 Pathe travelogue with an outsider's eye.
Immigrants line up on Ellis Island, then another group arrives at the dock. A 1906 glimpse of one of America's busiest gateways.
Prince Henry of Prussia and President Roosevelt walk up the gangway on Shooters Island for the christening of the German Emperor's yacht. 1902.
The Governor General, Lord Minto, and the Countess cross the river in ice canoes during Quebec's 1901 Winter Carnival.
Racing cars roar around Long Island in the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup, filmed from three spots on the course by Edison cameramen.
A flower parade in Montreux in 1897: carts and donkeys covered in blossoms, horse-drawn floats, bicycles and people in local costume.
A flower parade in Montreux in 1897: donkeys and carts covered in blossoms, floats and bicycles. Part three of the series.
An animated caricature of animals reacting to Theodore Roosevelt arriving in Africa, with a monkey sounding the alarm. Early political animation.
A pan along the Champ de Mars ends with the base of the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadero in the background. Paris in 1900.
Seven small children hold hands and wade into the surf at Coney Island, with adults in the distance. A sweet seaside minute from 1904.
Commodore Schley's flagship Brooklyn glides by with a shot hole in her funnel and a tattered battle flag. A 1898 naval parade, battle-worn.
A team of six dashes up as tourists arrive at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone. 1899, coach travel and Wild West tourism.
Thompson and Dundy's Luna Park and Dreamland shine at night, lit by their own concessions. Coney Island, 1905.
Robert Peary's schooner Roosevelt docks on the Hudson as men in straw hats and ladies in finery board for the Arctic. New York send-off, 1905.
Silent footage from the 1924 Douglas World Flight, the first aerial trip around the globe by U.S. Army Air Service pilots. The film is incomplete.
A silent newsreel of the 1924 Douglas World Cruisers flight, the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe, by Army Air Service pilots. It began in Seattle.
A 1929 home movie trip to California: Oakland, big redwood trees, and Lake Tahoe, filmed by Ellwood Hoffmann.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary walks down a street lined with cheering people, with a military entourage. 1910 royal pageantry.
Edward A. Salisbury's yacht expedition through the South Seas, 1920 to 1922. A dated travel documentary that needs a grain of salt.
A 1929 travelogue of Honolulu and Hawaii with Navy ships sailing across the Pacific. Sparkling water, sun and sailors.
Four-horse coaches and carriages, packed with tourists, line up at the Hotel Vendome in San Jose for the trip to Lick Observatory.
Norbert Weber's 1925 travel film of Korea, the Land of Morning Calm, as a visitor of its day saw it.
A waterfall against heavy timber at Yellowstone, Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon. An 1897 travelogue of scenery.
Theodore Roosevelt's role in saving birds, with footage from his 1915 visit to Louisiana bird sanctuary islands. A silent 1924 film.
Harry Houdini dives for treasure and escapes island captors to rescue a kidnapped father. This print is missing part of the middle.
The steamers Teutonic and Nordland head out of New York Harbor at full speed, 1902, with water dashing at their bows.
Teddy Roosevelt strolls a Louisiana beach in 1915 and watches birds on a sanctuary island. Filmed by Herbert Job of the Audubon Society.