Early Cinema to 1915

DVD 6855
The Movies Begin: The Great train robbery and other primary works
Homage to Eadweard Muybridge (1880s) –
Edison shorts:
The kiss (1896)
Serpentine dances (1895)
Sandow (Strong man) (1894)
Glenroy Brothers (Comic boxing) (1894)
Cock fight (1896)
The barber shop (1894)
Feeding the doves (1896)
Seminary girls (1897)
Lumière films (1895-96)
Swimming in the sea
Children digging for clams
Loading a boiler
Dragoons crossing the Sâone
Promenade of ostriches
Childish quarrel
Lion, London Zoological Garden
Photograph
Transformation by hats
Carmaux
Drawing out the coke
Poultry-yard
Arab Cortege, Geneva
New York: Brooklyn Bridge
New York: Broadway and Union Sq.
Policemen’s Parade, Chicago.
Actualities and other films:
A trip to the moon (1902)
President Mckinley at home (1897)
Packtrain on Chilkoot Pass (1898)
Skyscrapers of New York City (1903)
The Georgetown loop (1903)
San Francisco: aftermath of earthquake (1906)
The dog and his various merits (1908)
Moscow clad in snow (1908)
Airplane flight and crash (1910)
Fire in a burlesque theatre (1908)
Airy fairy Lillian tries on her new corsets (1908)
From show girl to burlesque queen (1908)
Troubles of a manager of a burlesque show (1908)
The great train robbery (1903)
The whole Dam family and the Dam dog (1905)
The golden beetle (1907).

DVD 6856
The Movies Begin: The European pioneers
Louis and Auguste Lumière:
Leaving the Lumière factory (1895)
The baby’s meal (1895)
Destruction of a wall (1896)
The sprinkler sprinkled (1895)
Arrival of congress members at Neuville-sur-Saône (1895)
The arrival of a train at La Ciotat (1895)
Card party (1895)
Leaving Jerusalem by railway (1896)
Snowball fight (1896)
A fire run (Lyons) (1896)
Niagara Falls (1897)
Spanish bullfight (1900)
Rough sea at Dover (1895)
Birt Acres:
Come along do! (1898)
The derby (1896)
The countryman and the cinematograph (1901)
A chess dispute (1903)
Extraordinary cab accident (1903)
Buy your own cherries (1904)
R. W. Paul:
The (?) motorist (1906)
Walter R. Booth:
The miller and the sweep (1898)
The kiss in the tunnel (1899)
Let me dream again (1900)
Grandma’s reading glass (1900)
As seen through a telescope (1900)
Sick kitten (1903)
Mary Jane’s mishap, or Don’t fool with paraffin (1903)
G. A. Smith:
Daring daylight burglary (1903)
Sheffield Photograph Co:
Desperate poaching affray (1903)
Walter Haggar:
Kiss in the tunnel (1899)
Ladies’ skirts nailed to a fence (1900)
Bitter bit (1900)
Rough sea (1900)
Bamforth and Company:
Attack on a China mission (1900)
The big swallow (1901)
Stop thief (1901)
Fire! (1901)
An interesting story (1905)

DVD 6857
The Movies Begin: Experimentation and discovery
Hepworth Mfg. Co:
How it feels to be run over (1900)
Explosion of a motor car (1900)
Rescued by Rover (1905)
The other side of the hedge (1905)
That fatal sneeze (1905)
Cricks and Martin:
A visit to Peek Frean & Co.’s bisquet works (1906)
Kineto Production Co.
Day in the life of a coalminer (1910)
Pathé Frères: Peeping Tom (1901)
History of a crime (1901)
Ali Baba and the forty thieves (1905)
Reve et réalité (1901)
La révolution en Russe (1905)
Aladin, or The wonderful lamp (1906)
Le cheval emballé (1907)
The physician of the castle (1908)
Magic bricks (1908)
Edison Manufacturing Co:
Dewar’s–it’s Scotch (1898)
The gay shoe clerk (1903)
Dream of a rarebit fiend (1906)

DVD 6842
Treasures from American film archives
The Original movie (1922)
Early films from the Edison Company
Blacksmithing scene (1893)
The gay shoe clerk (1903)
Three American beauties (1906)
Princess Nicotine or The smoke fairy (1909)
The Confederate Ironclad (1912)
Hell’s hinges (1916)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
From Groucho Marx’s home movies (ca. 1933)
Running around San Francisco for an education (1938)
From Tevye (1939)
Cologne: from the diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
Private Sanfu: “Spies” (1943)
OffOn (1968)

DVD 6843
Treasures from American film archives. Program 2
Paper print copyright deposits
Star theatre (1901)
Move on (1903)
Dog factory (1904)
The Lonedale (1911)
Her crowning glory (1911)
The toll of the sea (1922)
From Accuracy first (ca. 1928)
From West Virginia documentaries
West Virginia, the state beautiful (1929)
One-room schoolhouses (ca. 1935)
From Early amateur sound film (1936-37)
Composition 1 (Themis) (1940)
The Battle of San Pietro / U.S. War Dept. (1945)
Negro Leagues baseball (1946)
Battery film (1985)

DVD 6844
Treasures from American film archives. Program 3
The thieving hand (1908)
White fawn’s devotion (1910)
The Chechahcos (1924)
From Japanese American communities (1927-32)
From Rare aviation films
The Keystone “Patrician” (1928)
The Zeppelin “Hindenburg” (1936)
We work again / U.S. Works Projects Administration (”Black activities”) (1937)
From La Valse (1951)
The wall (1962)
George Dumpson’s place (1965)

DVD 6845
Treasures from American film archives. Program 4
Peepshow kinetoscopes (1894)
Interior New York subway (1905)
The Land beyond the sunset (1912)
I’m insured (1916)
Snow White / directed by J. Searle Dawley (1916)
From Beautiful Japan (1918)
From Rural life in Maine (ca. 1930)
News parade of 1934
Rose Hobart / directed by Joseph Cornell (1936)
Autobiography of a Jeep (1943)
From Marian Anderson: the Lincoln memorial concert (1939)

DVD 8220
The magic of Méliès
Untamable whiskers (1904)
Cook in trouble (1904)
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese conjuror (1904)
Wonderful living fan (1904)
Mermaid (1904)
Living playing cards (1905)
Black imp (1905)
Enchanted sedan chair (1905)
Scheming gambler’s paradise (1905)
Hilarious posters (1906)
Mysterious retort (1906)
The eclipse (1907)
Good glue sticks (1907)
Long distance wireless photography (1908)
Impossible voyage (1904)
Georges Méliès, cinema magician (1978)

DVD 9390
Méliès the magician
Four troublesome heads (1898)
Trip to the moon (1902)
Infernal cakewalk (1903)
Scheming gambler’s paradise (1905)
Music lover (1903)
Infernal boiling pot (1903)
Man with the rubber head (1901)
Living playing cards (1904)
Hilarious posters (1905)
Devilish tenant (1909)
Untameable whiskers (1904)
Imperceptible transmutations (1904)
Bluebeard (1901)
Fat and lean wrestling match (1900)
One-man band (1900)

DVD 6846
Landmarks of early film
1Muybridge series photography 1877-1885
Edison Films (1894-1896):
The Kiss
Serpentine Dances
Eugene Sandow
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
Cockfight
The Barber Shop
Feeding the Doves
Seminary Girls
Lumière films (1895-96)
Exiting the Factory
Arrival of Train at La Ciotat
Baby’s Lunch
The Sprinkler Sprinkled
Dragoons Crossing the Saone
Promenade of Ostriches, Paris Bot. Gardens
Childish Quarrel
Lion, London Zoological Garden
Demolition of a Wall
Transformation By Hats
Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
Poultry-Yard
Snowball Fight
Card Party
New York: Broadway at Union Square
Actualities and other films (1897-1910):
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Pres. McKinley at Home (1897)
Pack Train on Chilkoot Pass (1898)
Sky Scrapers of New York City… (1903)
San Francisco: Aftermath of an Earthquake (1906)
The Dog and his Various Merits (1908)
Aeroplane Flight and Wreck (1910)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Whole Dam Family & the Dam Dog (1905)
The Golden Beetle (1907)
The Policememn’s Little Run (1907)
Troubles of a Grasswidower (1908)
Nero, or The Fall of Rome (1909)
Winsor McCay and his Moving Comics (1911)
The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
Bangville Police (1913)

DVD 8673
Unseen Cinema: The mechanized eye
5 Paris Exposition Films (1900)-James White
Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace (1900)
Palace of Electricity (1900)
Champs de Mars (1900)
Panorama of Eiffel Tower (1900)
Scene from Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower (1900)
Captain Nissen Going through Whirpool Rapids, Niagra Falls (1901)-creators unknown
Down the Hudson (1903)-Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
The Ghost Train (1903)-creators unknown
Westinghouse Works, Panorama View Street Car Motor Room (1904)-G.W. “Billy” Bitzer
In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea (c. 1924-25)-creators unknown
Melody on Parade (c. 1936)-creators unknown
La Cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (1932)-Jerome Hill
Pie in the Sky (1934-35)-Nykino: Elia Kazan, Ralph Steiner & Irving Lerner
Travel Notes (1932)-Walker Evans
Oil: A Symphony in Motion (1930-33)-Artkino: M.G. MacPherson & Jean Michelson
Poem 8 (1932-33)-Emlen Etting
Storm (1941-43)-Paul Burnford
Portrait of a Young Man (1925-31)-Henwar Rodakiewicz

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Unseen Cinema: The Devil’s plaything
ack and the Beanstalk (1902)-Edwin S. Porter
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)-Edwin S. Porter
The Thieving Hand (1907)-creator unknown, Vitagraph
Impossible Convicts (1905)-G.W. “Billy” Bitzer
When the Clouds Roll By (1919)-Douglas Fairbanks & Victor Fleming (excerpt)
Beggar on Horseback (1925)-James Cruze (excerpt)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1926-27)-J.S. Watson, Jr. & Melville Webber
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1927)- Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich
The Love of Zero (1928)-Robert Florey & William Cameron Menzies
The Telltale Heart (1928)-Charles Klein
Tomatos Another Day (1930/1933)-J.S. Watson, Jr. & Alec Wilder
The Hearts of Age (1934)- William Vance & Orson Welles
Unreal News Reels (c. 1926)-Weiss Artclass Comedies (excerpt)
The Children’s Jury (c. 1938)-attributed Joseph Cornell
Thimble Theater (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
Carousel: Animal Opera (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
Jack’s Dream (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell

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Unseen Cinema: Light rhythms
Le Retour _ la raison (1923)-Man Ray
Ballet m_canique (1923-24)-Fernand L_ger & Dudley Murphy
An_mic cin_ma (1924-26)-Rrose S_lavy (Marcel Duchamp)
Looney Lens: Anamorphic People (1927)-Al Brick
Out of the Melting Pot (1927)-W.J. Ganz Studio
H20 (1929)-Ralph Steiner
Surf and Seaweed (1929-30)-Ralph Steiner
7 Vorkapich Montage Sequences (1928-37)-Slavko Vorkapich
The Furies (1934)
Skyline Dance (1928)
Money Machine (1929)
Prohibition (1929)
The Firefly- Vorkapich edit (1937)
The Firefly-MGM release version (1937)
Maytime (1937)
So This Is Paris (1926)-Ernst Lubitsch (excerpt)
Light Rhythms (1930)-Francis Brugui_re & Oswell Blakeston
Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain) (1934)-Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker
Rhythm in Light (1934)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber
Synchromy No. 2 (1936)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
Parabola (1937)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
Footlight Parade - “By a Waterfall” (1933)-Busby Berkeley
Glen Falls Sequence (1937-46)-Douglass Crockwell
Simple Destiny Abstractions (1937-40)-Douglass Crockwell
Abstract Movies (1937-47)-George L.K. Morris
Scherzo (1939)-Norman McLaren
Themis (1940)-Dwinell Grant
Contrathemis (1941)-Dwinell Grant
1941 (1941)-Francis Lee
Moods of the Sea (1940-42)-Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman

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Unseen Cinema: Inverted narratives
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)-D.W. Griffith & G.W. “Billy” Bitzer
Suspense (1913)-Lois Weber & Philips Smalley
Moonland (c. 1926)-Neil McQuire & William A. O’Connor
Lullaby (1929)-Boris Deutsch
The Bridge (1929-30)-Charles Vidor
Little Geezer (1932)-Theodore Huff
Black Dawn (1933)-Josef Berne & Seymour Stern
Native Land (1937-41)-Frontier Films: Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand (excerpt)
Black Legion (1936-7)-Nykino: Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke
Even As You and I (1937)-Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & Le Roy Robbins
Object Lesson (1941)-Christoher Young
“Sredni Vashtar” by Saki (1940-43)-David Bradley

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Picturing a metropolis
The Blizzard (1899)-creators unknown
Lower Broadway (1902)-Robert K. Bonine
Beginning of a Skyscraper (1902)-Robert K. Bonine
Panorama from Times Building, New York (1905)-Wallace McCutcheon
Skyscrapers of NYC from North River (1903)-J.B. Smith
Panorama from Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1903)-G.W. “Billy” Bitzer
Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre (1902)-Frederick Armitage
Coney Island at Night (1905)-Edwin S. Porter
Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)-G.W. “Billy” Bitzer
Seeing New York by Yacht (1902)-Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
2 Looney Lens: Split Skyscrapers (1924) and Tenth Avenue, NYC (1924)-Al Brick
4 Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly (1916-24)-creators unknown
Manhatta (1921)-Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
Twentyfour-Dollar Island (c. 1926)-Robert Flaherty
Skyscraper Symphony (1929)-Robert Florey
Manhattan Medley (1931)-Bonney Powell
A Bronx Morning (1931)-Jay Leyda
Footnote to Fact (1933)-Lewis Jacobs
Seeing the World (1937)-Rudy Burckhardt
Pursuit of Hapiness (1940)-Rudy Burckhardt
Gold Diggers of 1935 - “Lullaby of Broadway” (1935)-Busby Berkeley (excerpt)
Autumn Fire (1930-33)-Herman Weinberg

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The amateur as auteur
7 Case Sound Tests (c. 1924-25)-Theodore Case & Earl Sponable
Windy Ledge Farm (c. 1929-34)-Elizabeth Woodman Wright
A Day in Santa Fe (1931)-Lynn Riggs & James Hughes
4 Stewart Family Home Movies (c. 1935-39)-Archie Stewart
Children’s Party (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
Cotillion (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
The Midnight Party (c. 1938)-Joseph Cornell
Haiti (1938)-Rudy Burckhardt
Tree Trunk to Head (1938)-Lewis Jacobs
Bicycle Polo at San Mateo (1940-42)-Frank Stauffacher
1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207 (1939)-John C. Hecker

DVD 8679
Unseen Cinema: Viva la dance
7 Annabelle Dances and Dances (1894-1897)-W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White
Davy Jones’ Locker (1900)-Frederick Armitage
Neptune’s Daughters (1900)-Frederick Armitage
A Nymph of the Waves (1900)-Frederick Armitage
Diana the Huntress (1916)-Charles Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller (excerpt)
The Soul of the Cypress (1920)-Dudley Murphy
Looney Lens: Pas de deux (1924)-Al Brick
H_nde: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Z_rtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: The Life and Loves of the Gentler Sex) (1928)-Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy
Mechanical Principles (1930)-Ralph Steiner
Tilly Losch in Her Dance of the Hands (c. 1930-33)-Norman Bel Geddes
2 Eisenstein’s Mexican Footage (1931)-Sergei Eisenstein (excerpts)
Oramunde (1933)-Emlen Etting
Hands (1934)-Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke
Joie de vivre (1934)-Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin
Wonder Bar: “Don’t Say Goodnight” (1934)-Busby Berkeley (excerpt)
Dada (1936)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
Escape (1938)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
An Optical Poem (1938)-Oskar Fischinger
Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940s)-Slavko Vorpapich
NBC Valentine Greeting (1939-40)-Norman McLaren
Stars and Stripes (1940)-Norman McLaren
Tarantella (1940)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
Spook Sport (1940)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
Danse Macabre (1922)-Dudley Murphy
Peer Gynt (1941)-David Bradley, starring Charlton Heston (excerpt)
Introspection (1941/46)-Sara Kathryn Arledge

DVD 6859
Comedy, spectacle and new horizons
Policemen’s little run (1907)
Troubles of a grass widower (1908)
Nero, or the fall of Rome (1909)
Onésime, clock-maker (1912)
Winsor McCay and his animated pictures (1911)
Making an American citizen (1912)
Girl and her trust (1912)
Bangville police (1913)

DVD 8694
DVD 8695
DVD 8696
DVD 8697
Edison, the invention of the movies.
Early Edison camera tests
Dickson greeting
Newark athlete
Men boxing
Blacksmithing scene
Barber shop
Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze
Athlete with wand Sandow Carmencita
Boxing cats
Caicedo with pole
Annabelle butterfly dance
Cockfight, no.2
Corbett and Courtney before the kinetograph
Sioux ghost dance
Buffalo dance
Hornbacker-Murphy fight
Hadj Cheriff, Arab knife juggler
Glenroy Bros no.2
Louis Martinetti,
Contortionist
Bucking broncho
Annie Oakley
Imperial Japanese dance
Robetta and Doretto
Chinese laundry scene
Band drill
Fire rescue scene.
Billy Edwards and the unknown
Dickson experimental sound film
Princess Ali,
Egyptian dance
Annabelle serpentine dance
Execution of Mary,
Queen of Scots
Amy Muller
John C. Rice-Mary Irwin kiss
Shooting the chutes
Fatima, muscle dancer
Mess call
Inventor Edison sketched by world artist
Watermellon eating contest
Lone fisherman
Interrupted lovers
Feeding the doves
Morning bath
Burning stable
Mounted Police charge
McKinley parade
Going to the fire
A morning alarm
Black Diamond express
American Falls from above,
American side
First sleigh ride
The morning alarm
Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory
Return of lifeboat.
Troop ships for the Philippines
U.S. troops landing at Daiquiri,
Cuba
Burglar on the roof
Firemen rescuing men and women
Wringing good joke
Gold rush scenes in the Klondike
Searching ruins for dead bodies,
Galveston
The kiss
Capture of Boer battery by British
Storm at sea
Old maid having her picture taken
High diving scene
Photographing a country couple
What happened on Twenty-Third Street,
NY City
Pan-American Exposition by night
Trapeze disrobing act
Burning of Durland’s Riding Academy
Jack and the beanstalk
Electrocuting an elephant
Life of an American fireman
Egyptian fakir with dancing monkey
A scrap in black and white Uncle Tom’s cabin
Gay shoe clerk
Turning the tables
What happened in the tunnel
Great train robbery.
European rest cure
How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns
Strenuous life or, Anti-race suicide
Ex-convict Klepto-maniac
Seven ages
Whole dam family and the dam dog
Coney Island at night
Little train robbery
White caps
Miller’s daughter
Train wreckers
Life of an American policeman
Police chasing scorching auto
Dream of a rarebit fiend
Three American beauties
San Francisco earthquake
Terrible kids
Kathleen Mavourneen
Getting evidence
“Teddy” bears.
Cohen’s fire sale
Rivals
Trainer’s daughter or,
A race for love
College chums
Laughing gas
Little girl who did not believe in Santa Claus
Suburbanite’s ingenious alarm
Rescued from an eagle’s nest
Fireside reminiscences
Cupid’s pranks
Tale the Autumn leaves told (fragment)
House of cards
New York of today
How Bumptious papered the parlor
Thirty days at hard labor
Passer-by
Totville eye
Public and private care of infants
Unsullied shield. At Bear Track Gulch
The Ambassador’s daughter
A serenade by proxy
All on account of a transfer
One touch of nature
The adventure of the hasty elopement
The wonders of magnetism
Black eyes
The lone game
The unbeliever.