The collection opens with Len Lye's modernist abstraction ‘Tusalava’, which, heavily influenced by Maori and Aboriginal art, shares an interest in ‘primitive’ cultures that was typical of the Modernist movement of the time. It was almost refused a certificate by the puzzled British Board of Censors who suspected that the dancing abstract shapes might be about sex. Lye's own explanation was that it showed the beginnings of organic life. ‘Crossing the Great Sagrada’, is a lowbrow spoof on travel find out more...

CONVICT 13 (1920) Keaton goes from a golf game with his girlfriend to death-row in prison through a case of mistaken identity. THE HIGH SIGN Thrown off a train near an amusement park, Buster gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill s businessman, Buster ends up protecting the man and his daughter. DAYDREAMS (1922) In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, Buster goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of find out more...

A series of early shorts from the master of physical farce, a one man death defying comic genius. find out more...

A fascinating look at some of Charlie Chaplin's early work, a series of shorts, most of which coincide with America's entry into the First World War and the following years. This compilation of Chaplin's performances, which include biographies, stand as a testament not only to the man's genius but also an insight into the nation who adopted him nearly a century ago. find out more...

One of the classic Chaplin feature films in which the little tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl and, through a number of typical exploits, raises the money to pay for an operation. Chaplin's comic genius has rarely, if ever, been bettered and is as fresh now as it was fifty years ago. find out more...

Harold Lloyd stars in the first of these five shorts while the other films feature Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, a group of young actors who played a gang of poor neighbourhood kids that get into a series of comic scrapes. Haunted Spooks (1920, 20min): In this early Hal Roach comedy Harold Lloyd has to stay in a haunted house. Campus Vamp (1928, 20min): A very early Mac Sennett comedy that features a young Carole Lombard as one third of a love triangle. Our find out more...

Chaplin's inventive and devastating satire on the woes of modern industrialised life, featuring the last appearance of his Little Tramp character and his first use of sound effects. The classic scene, in which he gets sucked into a production line epitomises this film's clever inventiveness. find out more...

Buster returns home to his estranged father, a tough, no-nonsense steamboat captain, and while the two are as different as chalk and cheese the father and son are drawn together when a no-good rival attempts to take over Bill Sr's Mississippi business. One of Buster Keaton's best, the list of breath taking stunts include the classic collapsing house, where our hero is saved only by the open top floor window. Genius. find out more...

A collection of short films made from 1918-1920 from silent film's death defying clown. One of the true greats of early cinema. find out more...

A collection of short films made from 1918-1920 from silent film's death defying clown. One of the true greats of early cinema. find out more...