- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, NTSC.   viewing copy.   1 videocassette of 1.
b/w.  
fullscreen.   silent - no soundtrack.  
- Notes:
- Silent. Includes: LUMIERE PROGRAM (Louis and Auguste Lumiere, France, 1885 - 1900, 21 min.): includes Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory; Arrival Of Express At Lyons; Friendly Party In The Gardens Of Lumiere; Feeding The Baby; Boys Sailing Boats; Tuileries Garden, Paris; The Falling Wall; Baths At Milan, Italy; French Dragoons; Gondola Party; Sack Race; Military Review, Hungary; German Hussars Jumping Fences; Feeding The Swans; Boiler Loading). ANNABELLE DANCES (Edison Company, USA, 1894, 1 min.). EUGENE SANDOW (Edison Company, USA, 1896, 1 min.). FILMS OF THE 1890s (Edison Company et al., 1894 - 1899, 18 min.): includes Chinese Laundry (1894, Edison Kinetoscope film, with Robetta and Doretto); The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1895, Edison Kinetoscope film, directed by Alfred Clark, with Mr. R.L. Thomae as Mary); Dickson Experimental Sound Film (ca. 1895, Edison Company, directed by, and with, William K.L. Dickson); The Irwin-Rice Kiss (1896, Edison Company, from the play The Widow Jones, with May Irwin and John C. Rice); Feeding the Doves (1896, Edison Company); Morning Bath (1896, Edison Company); Burning Stables (1896, Edison Company); The Black Diamond Express (1896, Edison Company); New York Street Scenes (ca. 1897, identification uncertain); Fatima (1897, The International Film Company, identification uncertain); A Wringing Good Joke (1899, Edison Company); Dewar's Scotch Whiskey (1897, The International Film Company). EDISON COLLECTION (Edison Company, USA, 1896 - 1904, 18m) includes: The Irwin-Rice Kiss (1896); Old Maid in a Drawing Room; Street Car Chivalry (1903); Packers on the Trail (1901); Rocking Gold in the Klondike (1901); Panoramic View of the White Pass Railroad (1901); Railroad Smashup (1904); Asleep at the Switch. AN ASTRONOMER'S DREAM (Zecca, Ferdinand, France, 1898, 7 min., identification uncertain; often attributed to Melies). MIRACULOUS MOVIES OF MELIES (Georges Melies, France, 1899 - 1908) includes: The Conjurer (1899); The Vanishing Lady (1904); The Dream of an Opium Fiend (1908).
Titles
+ Annabelle Dances
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1894
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Baths At Milan, Italy
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Old Maid In A Drawing Room
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Packers On The Trail
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Panoramic View Of The White Pass Railroad
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Railroad Smashup
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Rocking Gold In The Klondike
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Street Car Chivalry
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Astronomer's Dream, An
- Director:
- Zecca, Ferdinand
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1898
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Black Diamond Express, The
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Chinese Laundry
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Dewar's Scotch Whiskey
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Eugene Sandow
- Alternate Title:
- Sandow
- Director:
- Dickson, W. K. L
- Production Co:
- Edison Manufacturing Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema
+ Execution Of Mary Queen Of Scots, The
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Falling Wall, The
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Fatima
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Feeding The Baby
- Alternate Title:
- Repas de bébé
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Feeding The Doves
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Feeding The Swans
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ French Dragoons
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Friendly Party In The Gardens of Lumiere
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ German Hussars Jumping Fences
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Gondola Party
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Military Review, Hungary
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Morning Bath
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ New York Street Scenes
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Sack Race
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Tuileries Garden, Paris
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Vanishing Lady, The
- Director:
- Méliès, Georges
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Fantasy, Silent Cinema
+ Workers Leaving The Factory
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Wringing Good Joke, A
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Arrival Of Express At Lyons
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Asleep At The Switch
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Boiler Loading
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Boys Sailing Boats
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Burning Stable
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Dickson Experimental Sound Film
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Dream Of An Opium Fiend, The
- Alternate Title:
- La Rêve D’un Fumeur D’Opium
- Director:
- Melies, Georges
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Fantasy, Silent Cinema
+ Irwin-Rice Kiss
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
+ Conjurer, The
- Alternate Title:
- L’Illusionniste Fin de Siècle; L'Impressionniste Fin de Siècle
- Director:
- Méliès, Georges
- Running Time:
- Short.   0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1899
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Fantasy, Silent Cinema
+ Lumiere Program
- Director:
- Lumiere
- Production Co:
- La Société Lumière
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Country:
- France
+ Films Of The 1890’s
0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack