The Magic Rosette

Praxinoscope animation of a juggler balancing a spinning plate on their nose. Series 1, number 2.

Praxinoscope animation of a child laying down balancing a drum upon his upraised legs. Series 1, number 3.

Praxinoscope animation of a girl in a blue dress blowing soap bubbles. Series 1, number 5.

Praxinoscope animation of a chef rotating meat on a spit while spooning drippings over it. Series 1, number 6.

Early Praxinoscope strip showing a girl dancing on a tightrope. Series 1, Number 7.

Praxinoscope animation of a woman feeding chickens. Series 1, number 4

Praxinoscope animation of a swimmer. Series 2, number 8.

Praxinoscope animation of an equestrian riding. Series 3, number 8.

The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic...

Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory.

Praxinoscope animation of a chef rotating meat on a spit while spooning drippings over it. Series 1, number 6.

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

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...

When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he...

In this modern take on Edmond Rostand's classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," C. D. Bales is the witty, intelligent, and brave fire chief of a small...