The films of pioneering filmmaker Lotte Reiniger

Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.

Interview with Sergei Parajanov here he discusses how making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) led to his imprisonment

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others

Wonderful trick film from Georges Méliès where he balances copies of himself on his head and hands.

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor of chronophotography.

In June 1878, Eadweard Muybridge created a sequential series of photographs with a battery of 12 cameras along the race track

An interview with Jean Renoir (1894 - 1979), conducted by Jacques Rivette in 1967.

Luis Buñuel interview where he describes the first film he ever saw.