In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques that are still used today. Being both a genius and an eccentric, we follow his life from his earliest films, to the collapse of his house from his mould experiment to his ultimate suicide. We also meet Natural History icon Sir David Attenborough, who was so amazed by Smith’s films in the 1930s that they inspired him to get into natural history.

This animated film is comprised of five themes chosen from Tezuka Osamu's collection of essays "Essay in Idleness of Insects" in which he had compiled studies on insects. Although this collection contains mainly academic studies, it also includes records of insect observation that lead to literary conclusions with mysterious or mythical imagery. The five essays are done in different animation techniques, and each episode is followed by a scene with the boy Tezuka Osamu and a swallow-tailed butterfly called "Oomurasaki." The film depicts the boy Tezuka Osamu desperately chasing Oomurasaki with his butterfly net, together with what he saw in his dreams. This work was screened at the show "Tezuka Osamu: Images of the Past and Future".

A co-production of Columbia Pictures and USC’s Department of Cinema, this 1958 educational short hosted by William Holden explores the art of adaptation through behind-the-scenes footage of the production of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Mitra and Whit walk around Brooklyn discussing their dream TV show.

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Amateur 'film enthusiast' footage shot in the last century creating a valuable resource for History, an eyewitness archive.

An occasional series of short films, each pairing a composer and a director to explore contemporary British music.

China on Film - a collection of rare films documenting life and landscape in China and Hong Kong in the first half of the 20th century.

A retrospective of the career of actor John Wayne, showing clips from many of his most famous films.

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.