Watch the launch of hms albion at blackwall Fmovies. The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom lost their lives when the jetty upon which they were standing became washed away by the resultant swell.
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A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.
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Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy...
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This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...
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Women getting onto a rickshaw.
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A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.
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This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.
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On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very...
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A day in the life of a train station.
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A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....
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The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
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The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various...
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A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.