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Fantasy tale involving a fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently moving through the cabbages and using of lovely gestures, she takes one baby out of there, then makes more magic and delivers two more.

An uncharacteristic "trick" film from Alice Guy. The fellow prepares for his bath. And prepares. And prepares.

In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?

This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The earliest extant sound film, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost. It depicts William K.L. Dickson standing in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder.

An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.

Four workers demolish an old factory wall. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of dust whirls up. Three workers continue with picks.

The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.

A social commentary on post-war France's urban developments.

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.

Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.

The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

This documentary traces the unrewarding, cynical and difficult world of photographers.

Footage of a snowshoe festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Depictions of culture in the early years including snowshoe races, and musical attractions.

A documentary of black art.

A short documentary about the industrial area on the outskirts of Paris, where many of the poor and working class who could not afford the more expensive rents in the City found cheaper housing.

A short look at the vampire bat sucking blood from a guinea pig.

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that he focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men now do?

As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.