- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, PAL. viewing copy.
b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. Produced by the British Film Institute with commentary by Barry Salt. Contains: HOW IT FEELS TO BE RUN OVER (Cecil Hepworth, Britain, 1900, 43 sec.); EXPLOSION OF A MOTOR CAR (Hepworth, Britain, 1900, 1:23 min.); RESCUED BY ROVER (Hepworth and Lewin Fitzhamon, Britain, 1905, 6:21 min.); THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HEDGE (Fitzhamon, Britain, 1905, 1:38 min.); THAT FATAL SNEEZE (Fitzhamon, Britain, 1905, 5:32 min.); A VISIT TO PEEK FREANS & CO.’S BISCUIT WORKS [extracts] (G. H. Cricks & J. H. Martin, Britain, 1906, 11:39 min.); A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COALMINER (Kineto Production Co., Britain, 1910, 9:33 min.); PAR LE TROU DE SERRUE/PEEPING TOM (Pathé Frères, France, 1901, 1:42 min.); ALI BABA ET LES QUARANTE VOLEURS/ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES (Pathé Frères & Ferdinand Zecca, France, 1902/1905, 8:14 min.); REVE ET RÉALITÉ/DREAM AND REALITY (Pathé Frères & Zecca [?], France, 1901, 36 sec.); HISTOIRE D’UN CRIME (1901); THE REVOLUTION IN ODESSA (Pathé Frères & Lucien Nouguet, France, 1905, 3:35 min.); ALADIN OU LA LAMPE MERVEULLEUSE/ALADIN OR THE MARVELOUS LAMP (Pathé Frères, France, 1905, 11:38 min.); LE CHEVALLE EMBALLÉ/THE RUNAWAY HORSE (Pathé Frères & Zecca, [?] France, 1907, 6:37 min.); A NARROW ESCAPE, THE PHYSICIAN OF THE CASTLE [incomplete] (Pathé Frères, France, 1908, 5:57 min.); MAGIC BRICKS (Pathé Frères & Gaston Velle, France, 1908, 3:04 min.); DEWAR’S SCOTCH WHISKEY/DEWAR’S—IT’S SCOTCH (International Film Co, USA, 1897, 46 sec. a copy of the Edison/Porter film); THE GAY SHOE CLERK (Edison/Porter, USA, 1903, 1:12 min.); THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903); DREAM OF A RAREBIT FIEND (Edison/Porter & Wallace McCutcheon, USA, 1906, 5:09 min.). PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
Titles
+ HOW IT FEELS TO BE RUN OVER
- Director:
- Hepworth, Cecil
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Explosion Of A Motor Car
- Director:
- Hepworth, Cecil
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ RESCUED BY ROVER
- Director:
- Hepworth, Cecil; Fitzhamon, Lewin
- Production Co:
- Hepworth Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1905
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ OTHER SIDE OF THE HEDGE, THE
- Director:
- Fitzhamon, Lewin
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1905
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ THAT FATAL SNEEZE
- Director:
- Fitzhamon, Lewin
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1905
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ VISIT TO PEEK FREANS & CO.'S BISCUIT WORKS, A
- Director:
- Cricks, G. H.; Martin, J. H.
- Production Co:
- Cricks and Sharp
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1906
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. A demonstration of biscuit making at the Peek Frean factory.
PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Day In The Life Of A Coalminer
- Production Co:
- Kineto Production Co.
10 minutes
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1910
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Aladin Or The Marvelous Lamp
- Alternate Title:
- Aladin ou la lampe merveulleuse
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves
- Alternate Title:
- Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs
- Director:
- Zecca, Fedinand
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1902 / 1905
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey / Dewar's - It's Scotch
- Production Co:
- International Film Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1897
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Dream And Reality
- Alternate Title:
- Rêve et Rèalitè
- Director:
- Zecca, Ferdinand
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Magic Bricks
- Director:
- Velle, Gaston
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Language:
- silent with musical accompaniment
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Narrow Escape, The PHYSICIAN oF tHE CASTLE, A
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Runaway Horse, The
- Alternate Title:
- Le cheval emballé
- Director:
- Zecca, Ferdinand
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.; McCutcheon, Wallace
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1906
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Gay Shoe Clerk, The
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Peeping Tom
- Alternate Title:
- Par le trou de serrue
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Great Train Robbery, The
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Crime, Western, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Histoire D’Un Crime
0 minutes
- Year:
- 1901
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
+ Revolution In Odessa, The
- Alternate Title:
- La Révolution in Odessa; Revolution In Russia, The
- Director:
- Nonguet, Lucien
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano accompaniment. PAL broadcast format videotape; can be viewed only in tri-standard viewing stations.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog