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  Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In

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  Blacksmithing Scene

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  The Sprinkler Sprinkled

  A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose.

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  Quadrophenia

  Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slav

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  Animal Crossing: The Movie

  This is the story of a young self-reliant girl called Ai, who one day, moves into the Animal Village. While working at T

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  Dickson Experimental Sound Film

  William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is record

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  Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

  A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Br

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  Dante's Inferno

  The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustratio

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  Around a Cabin

  The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play

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  Horse Trick Riders

  In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile.

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  La Maison en Petits Cubes

  La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the fl

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  Pierrette's Escapades

  Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

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  Clown and His Dogs

  Short film of 300 individually painted images.

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  The Great Gabbo

  For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more

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  Asterix Conquers America

  When marauding Romans capture - and catapult - their pal Getafix into lands unknown, the shrewd and cunning Asterix and

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  The Second Mother

  After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years

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  The Ant Bully

  Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in

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  Good Bye, Lenin!

  Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning w

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  The Power of the Dog

  A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long

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  My Mother's Castle

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