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V1379

Original Cinema: Films Of The 1890s

Multiple

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


+ Baths At Milan, Italy


+ Old Maid In A Drawing Room


+ Packers On The Trail


+ Panoramic View Of The White Pass Railroad


+ Railroad Smashup


+ Rocking Gold In The Klondike


+ Street Car Chivalry


+ Astronomer's Dream, An


+ Black Diamond Express, The


+ Chinese Laundry


+ Dewar's Scotch Whiskey


+ Eugene Sandow


+ Execution Of Mary Queen Of Scots, The


+ Falling Wall, The


+ Fatima


+ Feeding The Baby


+ Feeding The Doves


+ Feeding The Swans


+ French Dragoons


+ Friendly Party In The Gardens of Lumiere


+ German Hussars Jumping Fences


+ Gondola Party


+ Military Review, Hungary


+ Morning Bath


+ New York Street Scenes


+ Sack Race


+ Tuileries Garden, Paris


+ Vanishing Lady, The


+ Workers Leaving The Factory


+ Wringing Good Joke, A


+ Arrival Of Express At Lyons


+ Asleep At The Switch


+ Boiler Loading


+ Boys Sailing Boats


+ Burning Stable


+ Dickson Experimental Sound Film


+ Dream Of An Opium Fiend, The


+ Irwin-Rice Kiss


+ Conjurer, The


+ Lumiere Program


+ Films Of The 1890’s