- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 3 videodiscs of 3.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. sound - stereo.
- Notes:
- Supplemental material: essay booklet.
Titles
+ Workers Leaving The Factory
- Alternate Title:
- Exiting the Factory; Sortie des Usines Lumiere a Lyon
- Director:
- Lumière, Auguste; Lumière, Louis
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An alternate version of the famed short film.
+ Arrival Of A Train
- Director:
- Lumière, Auguste; Lumière, Louis
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1897
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An alternate version of the famed early short film.
+ Card Party
- Alternate Title:
- Partie d’ecarte
- Director:
- Lumière, Auguste; Lumière, Louis
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A hand-colored alternate version of the early Lumière short film.
+ Kobelkoff
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A performance by the “famous man-torso” Nikolai Kobelkoff (a man without arms or legs) a carnival sideshow performer. Kobelkoff fires a small rifle, paints and performs acrobatics.
+ Danse Serpentine (In A Lion’s Cage)
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A color tinted film of a serpentine dance performed by Mme. Ondine inside of a lion’s cage.
+ Cyrano De Bergerac
- Director:
- Clement-Maurice
- Production Co:
- Phono-Cinema-Theatre
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Theater, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A filmed version of the theatrical production of CYRANO DE BERGERAC, featuring the duel scene. With the original pre-recorded sound from wax cylinder.
+ Marseillaise, La
- Director:
- Mendel, Georges
- Production Co:
- Phono-Cinema-Theatre
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- An early experiment in sound film, with the film designed to be played with a mechanically synchronized phonograph. M. Note of the Paris Opera sings “La Marsellaise.”
+ Excelsior! - Prince Of Magicians
- Alternate Title:
- Excelsior!
- Director:
- Méliès, Georges
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Fantasy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A short trick film by Georges Melies featuring a magician dressed as an aristocrat.
+ Talion Punishment, The
- Alternate Title:
- La Peine Du Talion
- Director:
- Velle, Gaston
- Production Co:
- Pathe Freres
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1906
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Fantasy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A stencil-colored film of young women dressed as butterflies who retaliate against a busy lepidopterist.
+ Kiriki, Japanese Acrobats
- Alternate Title:
- Kiriki, Acrobates Japonais
- Director:
- de Chomón, Segundo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Genre:
- Fantasy, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An early special effects film, hand-colored in 2000 following the coloring of a small surviving fragment of the original colored version.
+ Excursion Dans La Lune
- Alternate Title:
- An Excursion To The Moon
- Director:
- de Chomón, Segundo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Genre:
- Action Adventure, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A stencil-colored film adventure inspired by Georges Méliès’ film, A TRIP TO THE MOON.
+ Automatic Moving Company, The
- Director:
- Bosetti, Romeo
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A trick film (achieved using miniature models), inspired by Emile Cohl’s MOBILIER FIDELE (1910, Gaumont), in which furniture and other assorted household items move themselves into a new house.
+ Seine Flood, The
- Alternate Title:
- La Crue de la Seine
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Eclipse Company
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1910
- Language:
- French intertitles with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Footage of the flood that devastated Paris in 1910.
+ Over The Top (A Battle With The Elements)
- Production Co:
- Earle Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A film about a 1915 contest in which the Reno Commercial Club offered a trophy for the first car to travel a new route from San Francisco to Reno.
+ Visit To Los Angeles, A
- Production Co:
- Ford Motor Company
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A documentary created to popularize the idea of automobile travel, depicting Los Angeles at the very beginning of the boom created by oil, movies and aircraft.
+ Montmartre’s Kids
- Alternate Title:
- Les Gosses de la Butte
- Director:
- uncredited
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Satire, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Filmed in the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre, in which a bunch of street urchins stage a fantasy martial siege on an unsuspecting concierge.
+ Dirigible Los Angeles, The
- Running Time:
- Short. 19 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A documentary of a United States naval zeppelin’s flight through Los Angeles.
+ In The Land Of Giants And Pygmies
- Director:
- Rossi, Aurelio
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1925
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A preserved stencil-colored film diary of Aurelio Rossi’s 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo.
+ Technicolor Fashion Parade
- Production Co:
- Fashion Features, Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Genre:
- Industrial
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A two-color Technicolor fashion shoot.
+ Charles A. Lindbergh, Hero Of The Air
- Alternate Title:
- Charles A. Lindbergh, “The Lone Eagle”
- Production Co:
- Fox-Case Movietone
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- An early sound film recording the take-off of Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight, with further sound footage of his welcome in Washington, D.C. after his success.
+ Pompier Des Folies-Bergère, Le
- Alternate Title:
- Fireman Of The Folies-Bergère, The
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1928
- Genre:
- Performance, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Josephine Baker performs to promote her Paris revue.
+ Meet Me Down At Coney Isle
- Production Co:
- Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1932
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Inspired by city symphonies like Walter Ruttman’s BERLIN, a portrait of Coney Island in 1932.
+ Dancing Pig, The
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Performance, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A hilarious vaudeville performance in which a giant pig dances with a showgirl. Sadly, the poor manufacturing of this disc causes dropout during playback in this particular title.
+ Monkey Race, The
- Production Co:
- Italia Film
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Italy
- Year:
- 1909
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
+ I Fetch The Bread
- Alternate Title:
- Je vais chercher le pain
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Arriving dinner guests find that their hostess has forgotten the bread. In this variation on the comic chase film, comic incident builds up during a quick visit to the bakery.
+ Artheme Avale Sa Clarinette
- Alternate Title:
- Artheme Swallows His Clarinet
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Eclipse Company
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1912
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
+ Kid Auto Races
- Director:
- Lehrman, Henry
- Production Co:
- Keystone Film Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1914
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Charlie Chaplin’s second film, and the first in which he wore his famous “tramp” costume.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Pest, The
- Director:
- Anderson, G.M.
- Production Co:
- Amalgamated Producing Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 22 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1922
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A book agent attempts to save a beautiful young woman from being thrown out by her sinister landlord.
+ Lizzies Of The Field
- Director:
- Lord, Del
- Production Co:
- Pathé Exchange
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A frantic gag comedy about a 250-mile road race.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Fantasmagorie
- Director:
- Cohl, Emile
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A stream-of-consciousness animation in which the drawings take on ever-evolving forms.
+ Cartoon Factory
- Director:
- Fleischer, Max; Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Fleischer Studios
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- SIlent with musical accompaniment. Combining live action with animation, Ko-Ko the Clown emerges from cartoonist Max Fleischer’s inkwell.
+ In The Orient
- Production Co:
- Columbia Pictures
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Performance
- Notes:
- A performance by Tony Sarg, the father of modern puppetry in North America.
+ Ain’t She Sweet
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Fleischer Studio
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1932
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, Performance
- Notes:
- Lillian Roth sings and dances to the title song with a bouncing ball. In an animated sequence, there is a barn dance for cats.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Balloonland
- Alternate Title:
- The Pincushion Man
- Director:
- Iwerks, Ub
- Production Co:
- Celebrity Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1935
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, Musical
- Notes:
- In a land in which everyone and everything is a balloon, the sinister Pincushion Man menaces a young boy and girl, and eventually goes after their entire community.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Play Safe
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Paramount Pictures; Fleischer Studios
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Children's Works, Animation
- Notes:
- One of the first cartoons made in three-color Technicolor, featuring an innovative animation technique filmed vertically with characters moving among three-dimensional sets.
+ Radi-Ators
- Production Co:
- Columbia Pictures
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- African - American Interest, Performance
- Notes:
- A musical performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
+ Black And Tan
- Alternate Title:
- Black and Tan Fantasy
- Director:
- Murphy, Dudley
- Production Co:
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Running Time:
- Short. 18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- African - American Interest, With Songs
- Notes:
- Duke Ellington stars as a down-on-his-luck musician who tries in vain to persuade his friend to quit performing to save his health.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Louis Armstrong In Copenhagen
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Denmark
- Year:
- 1934
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- African - American Interest, Performance
- Notes:
- Three songs performed by Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1934.
+ Jazz Hot
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1939
- Genre:
- Performance
- Notes:
- A performance by jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt with violinist Stephane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.
+ California Election News #2
- Production Co:
- MGM
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1934
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A fake documentary intended as propaganda against socialist author Upton Sinclair, who was running for governor of California.
+ Week-End
- Production Co:
- Virigina Week-End Tobacco
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- French language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Television Advertising
- Notes:
- An advertisement starring Fernandel.
+ Cette Nuit-Là
- Production Co:
- Levitan and Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1935
- Language:
- French language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Television Advertising
- Notes:
- An advertisement made for projection during cinema programs starring Jacques Tati.
+ Clo-Cloche
- Production Co:
- Caporal
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1935
- Language:
- French language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Television Advertising
- Notes:
- An advertisement for cinemas starring Richard Lewis.
+ MGM Promo Reel
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- MGM
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Notes:
- With Laurel and Hardy. A promotional reel designed to sell MGM’s seasonal block of releases to French exhibitors.
+ Master Hands
- Production Co:
- Chevrolet Motor Company; Jam Handy
- Running Time:
- Short. 32 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- An almost-wordless documentary celebrating the workers at the Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan.
+ Philips Broadcast Of 1938
- Alternate Title:
- The Big Broadcast; Le Grande Revue Philips 1938
- Director:
- Pal, George
- Production Co:
- Phillips Radio
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Industrial, Animation, Musical
- Notes:
- Advertisement for Philips radios. A puppet animation featuring George Pal’s wooden puppets in which Bert Ambrose and his orchestra perform the song “Harbor Lights.”
+ Yankee Doodler
- Director:
- Moulton, Herbert
- Production Co:
- R.C.M. Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1942
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Musical
- Notes:
- A pro-War, anti-Axis musical performance from World War II. Features William Frawley.
+ Rosie The Riveter
- Director:
- Graham, John C.
- Production Co:
- Soundies Distributing Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1943
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Performance
- Notes:
- A patriotic song made during World War II.
+ Dear Arabella
- Director:
- Berne, Josef
- Production Co:
- Soundies Distributing Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1942
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Performance
- Notes:
- A patriotic, World War II-era musical performance.
+ Hell Bent For Election
- Director:
- Jones, Chuck
- Production Co:
- Industrial Films and Poster Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1944
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A labor-sponsored film made for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1944 presidential campaign, in which FDR is portrayed as a streamlined express train while his opponent is an old, tired steamer.
+ For His Son
- Director:
- Griffith, D. W.
- Production Co:
- Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1912
- Genre:
- Melodrama
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A father, anxious for his son’s financial well being, develops a drink called “Dopokoke,” which is laced with cocaine. The drink is a success, but his son becomes an addict.
+ Suspense
- Director:
- Weber, Lois; Smalley, Phillips
- Production Co:
- Rex Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1913
- Genre:
- Suspense, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. In an isolated house, a young woman and her baby are menaced by a passing tramp when her husband is away.
+ Heart Of An Indian, The
- Alternate Title:
- The Indian Massacre
- Director:
- Ince, Thomas H.
- Production Co:
- Bison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 32 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1912
- Genre:
- Western, Silent Cinema
+ Stolen Kisses
- Director:
- various
- Production Co:
- various
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- various
- Year:
- [1920s]
- Genre:
- Sexuality, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A reel of “stolen kisses” - shots from films that were censored by projectionists for objectionable content. Discovered in Brussels, Belgium in 1997.