- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- In
- DVD000507
-
Movies Begin, The: Vol. 3: Experimentation And Discovery
-
Multiple
- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
b/w & tinted. fullscreen. sound. - Alternate Title:
- Hepworth Mfg. Co.
- 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 musical accompaniment. A car is driven directly at the camera, with disastrous results.
- Director:
- Hepworth, Cecil
- Production Co:
- Hepworth Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A car drives pas a policeman and explodes, although he is happily unscathed enough to pick up the pieces afterwards.
- 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
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A baby is kidnapped by an old beggar woman, but the faithful family dog Rover comes to its rescue.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
- Director:
- Fitzhamon, Lewin
- Production Co:
- Hepworth Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1905
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Director:
- 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 musical accompaniment.
- 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 musical accompaniment. A demonstration of biscuit making at the Peek Frean factory.
- Alternate Title:
- A Day In The Life Of A Coal Miner
- Production Co:
- Kineto Productions Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1910
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. The work done by men and women at the coal face and the pit head.
- Alternate Title:
- Par La Trou De Serrure
- Director:
- Zecca, Ferdinand
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1901
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A hotel porter tries in his spare time to find out the secrets of the guests in looking through the keyholes of the different rooms.
- Director:
- Zecca, Ferdinand
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères; Ferdinand Zecca
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1902 / 1905
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Alternate Title:
- Reve et Realite
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères; Ferdinand Zecca
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1901
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A well-dressed middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his attentions. But it all might be too good to be true.
- 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 musical accompaniment. A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: a ship’s crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they reach land, a sailor who died during the mutiny is made a martyr, inspiring an uprising in the city. Then the authorities decide to repress the revolt with a brutal show of force.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1905
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères; Ferdinand Zecca
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1907
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Production Co:
- Pathé Frères; Gaston Velle
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A magician and his assistant make objects and people appear and disappear. After they stack blocks, a moving picture of a little girl appears on them.
- Alternate Title:
- Dewar’s - It’s Scotch
- Production Co:
- International Film Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1897
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. The first film advertisement.
- 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 musical accompaniment. A shoe clerk gets friendly with a female customer.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.; McCutcheon, Wallace
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1906
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
- Alternate Title:
- Story Of A Crime
- Director:
- Zecca, Ferdinand
- Production Co:
- Pathe Freres
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1901
- Language:
- Silent with musical accompaniment.
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. A prisoner has visions of his criminal past and his future punishment, before suddenly waking up.
Titles
+ Other Side Of The Hedge, The
+ Visit To Peek Freans & Co.’s Biscuit Works, A [excerpts]
+ Day In The Life Of A Coalminer, A
+ Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves
+ Aladin Or The Marvelous Lamp
+ Narrow Escape, The Physician Of The Castle, A [incomplete]