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Charlie Chaplins 52nd Film Released June 12 1916 The Fireman was the second film Charlie Chaplin created for Mutual Films in…

L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translated from French into English as The Arrival of a Train at La…

In November, 1940, the newly completed Tacoma Narrows Bridge, opened barely four months before, swayed and collapsed in a 42 mile-per-hour…

The Miller and the Sweep is a 1898 British short black-and-white silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a…

The Haunted Castle is a hypothetical lost 1897 British film, attributed in some filmographies to the British film pioneer George Albert…

The Four Troublesome Heads 1898 (French: Un homme de têtes, "A Man of Heads") is an 1898 French silent film directed…

The Famous Box Trick is a 1898 French short black-and-white silent trick film, featuring a stage magician who transforms one boy…

The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman gate from 1538, and for the wide gap in…