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poster Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing…
poster The Pillar of Fire
The Pillar of Fire
1mn - Fantasy
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…
poster It's a Greek Life
It's a Greek Life
(2.6/5)
7mn - Animation
Mercury, the winged messenger, drops his sandals off with a centaur to be repaired. The centaur, who has coveted wings to the extent that he's used a couple ducks to help him fly, takes the sandals for a …
poster Amazon: Longest River in the World
Amazon: Longest River in the World
66mn - Documentary
Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of cai…
poster Stay Calm
Stay Calm
91mn - Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Giorgio, an Italian-American appointed to the Ministry of Culture, arrives in Italy with big plans for his election campaign. Giorgio and his assistant Marco hire an Instagram influencer and an ex-prisone…
poster Children of Troubled Times
Children of Troubled Times
(2.8/5)
92mn - Drama
The young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized wid…
poster Dance of Ouled Nail
Dance of Ouled Nail
2mn - Documentary
A short film featuring several dancers from different countries: first an Arabian dancer, then an Algerian belly dancer, and finally Scottish highlanders in kilts performing a jig. Section one is rendered…
poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
(3.3/5)
1mn - Documentary
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…
poster The Idol Dancer
The Idol Dancer
104mn - Drama
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
poster Kino Eye
Kino Eye
(3.5/5)
78mn - Documentary
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand …
poster Horse Shoeing
Horse Shoeing
1mn - Documentary, Drama
One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to driv…
poster Coffee Run
Coffee Run
(5/5)
3mn - Animation
Fueled by caffeine, a young woman runs through the bittersweet memories of her past relationship. All graphic content is CC-By Blender Studio.
poster Danse Tyrolienne
Danse Tyrolienne
1mn - Documentary
A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.
poster A Simple Matter of Justice
A Simple Matter of Justice
58mn -
A powerful and moving piece documenting the lesbian, gay and bisexual movement in the early 1990s, A Simple Matter of Justice expresses all the emotions of the joyful protest that was the 1993 March on Wa…
poster Ballet MĂ©canique
Ballet MĂ©canique
19mn - Documentary, Fantasy
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
poster The Chinese Shadows
The Chinese Shadows
3mn - Comedy, Animation
At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.
poster The Vain Parlor Maid
The Vain Parlor Maid
(2.7/5)
4mn - Comedy
A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…
poster The Artist's Dreams
The Artist's Dreams
(3.1/5)
5mn - Animation
An animated dachshund fools his live-action creator by eating the sausages he has drawn.
poster Coney Island at Night
Coney Island at Night
4mn - Documentary
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.
poster The Dancing Pig
The Dancing Pig
4mn - Comedy
A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.
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