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A fire fighting demonstration in Luna Park, Coney Island. on August 15, 1904.

Singer Pik Nik tests the power of song with an earth-shaking voice that causes people to pass out, walls to collapse, cars to go backwards—and eventua...

Accident-prone Polycarpe wreaks havoc on a construction site—a popular location for so many early film comedies.

Accomplished musician Blanche Ladoré (played by “Léontine”) places a personal ad in the paper wishing to marry an “equally talented musician.” Rémi La...

Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923),but not realised until 1959.

Acting on the Darwin theory, that man descended from a monkey, a scientist experiments towards turning man back to the monkey stage. He inoculates a n...

Short film about the attractions of the Italian coastal town of Rapallo.

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about stencil co...

View over the castle island of Holmen's Church and the Stock Exchange from the top of Christiansborg, where architect Thorvald Jørgensen is seen at Ch...

A documentary short film showing the flying of an airplane by the famous French pilot Chevillard.

Swimming. The Russian swimmer Romantschenko visits Copenhagen. He jumps into the water and swims around in the harbor, and he is later seen together w...

The remains of the Baltic Violence have been eroded away by the large steam excavator. There is a man standing at the railway cutting as trains pass....

From inside a tower, a man admires an artistic rendition of another tower.

Horse carriages seen at the Copenhagen Town Square.

The horse-drawn tram "Hønen" comes running along Nørregade and into the Old Square. "Hønen"'s last trip was on June 14, 1915.

Street Trading. Fishermen's wives from Skovshoved sell their fish from the stalls at Gammel Strand. Anker Kirkeby is in the picture.

Farmers' wives from Amager selling flowers.

From Elsinore shipyard launched the steamer AP Bemstorff sliding slowly out into the harbor.

Inventor Jacob Ellehammer's first attempts at flying.