Watch magic on a stick HDtoday. This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
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At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe...
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Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel...
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In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...
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In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his...
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For those who heart history and the great city of Chicago, this film will take you through time with a small child and his nervous babysitter. Feel...
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Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...
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The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing...
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The Great Kantō Earthquake is said to be the worst natural disaster in the history of Japan. When disaster struck on September 1st, 1923, a...
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A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring...
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from...
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While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian...