Motion Picture Collection

Charlie Chaplin, English / American actor and comedian, 1928
Charlie Chaplin, English/American actor and comedian, 1928. Seen here in a scene from The Circus, Chaplin (1889-1977) was an Academy Award-winning actor and director

Charlie Chaplin, comedian and actor, c1921. Chaplin asleep on a bench, cradling a bag of golf clubs in his arms. Photograph promoting the motion picture The Idle Class, released in 1921

Fantascope disc, 1833. Artist: Thomas Mann Baynes
Fantascope (Phenakistoscope), 1833. An optical toy depending on persistence of vision for its effect. The disc shows multiple images of cat chasing a bird

Attitudes of Animals in Motion, 1879, printed 1881. Creator: Eadweard J Muybridge
Attitudes of Animals in Motion, 1879, printed 1881

Booklet of instructions for a Fantascope, 1833. Artist: Thomas Mann Baynes
Booklet of instructions for a Fantascope, 1833. The Fantascope or Phenakistoscope was an optical toy depending on persistence of vision for its effect

Lillian Gish (1896-1993), American stage and screen actress, 1912. Lillian Gish was one of the stars of early cinema, forming a partnership with the great director DW Griffith

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