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Greg

4 years ago

12 Mar, 21

Movies worth watching:

NEW FAVORITES:
The Great Train Robbery
The General
Love Story
Some Like It Hot
Grandma's Boy

GOOD ONE-TIME WATCH:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
High Noon
The Champion (1915)
12 Years a Slave (A fascinating but heartbreaking true story. "One-time watch" is not a judgment of its quali (...more)

Greg

4 years ago

23 Jan, 21

1909 THE NICOTINE PRINCESS (ALSO TITLED "THE SMOKE FAIRY")

You can read a synopsis here. So far, this was easily the strangest, "I just don't get it" viewing thus far. I felt the widest disconnect here between what my own sensibilities are and what turn of the century audiences apparently f (...more)

Greg

4 years ago

08 Nov, 20

1906 A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET

https://youtu.be/8YRbMMqj0qw

The version linked above has be (...more)

Greg

4 years ago

10 Oct, 20

1899- KING JOHN

https://youtu.be/7lWn99STB1o

Oldest known filming of any Shakespeare work. (...more)

Greg

4 years ago

10 Oct, 20

1888 ROUNDHAY GARDEN SCENE

1st known celluloid movie shot by Englishman Louis le Prince

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2r__ZgO5g

Obviously this is one of those "important only because it's historic" deals. There is very little about this that makes it inherently interesting. It doesn't reveal anything about the late 1880s really. Too short to have a plot..it's just the filmmaker's son and several relatives walking in a circle. No doubt it was mindboggling in its day. Now it's just fun to realize we are watching echoes of history more than 125 years ago.

1889 MONKEYSHINES, NO. 1, 2 AND 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tfs6WfbHyI

The first movie to be shot in the U.S.

Depending on which source you believe, this is either 1889 *or* 1890. I am using it as 1889 because the only other film I see listed for the year (Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses)has no known surviving prints or stills. Film is really much too blurry to make out what is actually occurring so I am taking comments from IMDB as my source:"The hardly recognizable person here is one of (William K.L.) Dickson's lab workers, G. Sacco Albanese, who was never seen in motion pictures again after Monkeyshines."

1890 LONDON'S TRAFALGAR SQUARE http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Trafalgar_Square_1890_-_ten_remaining_frames_by_Wordsworth_Donisthorpe.gif/220px-Trafalgar_Square_1890_-_ten_remaining_frames_by_Wordsworth_Donisthorpe.gif

Only ten frames of the film are still known to survive and are in this animated .GIF linked above. Again, not terribly exciting but you see what turn of the century London thoroughfares were like.

1891 MEN BOXING

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/papr:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28edmp+4015a%29%29

Film made by associates of Thomas Edison is the first "sports film".

1892 LE CLOWN ET SES CHIENS “THE CLOWN AND HIS DOGS”

https://youtu.be/T5HZG6voVWg

The first known animated film.

1893 BLACKSMITH SCENE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaFqr7nGsJM

Film was shot by Thomas Edison. This is the first publicly exhibited film. Drinking a brewski while using really big hammers...probably a GREAT idea. *eyeroll*

1894 ANNIE OAKLEY http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq%28@field%28NUMBER+@band%28edmp+4030%29%29+@field%28COLLID+edison%29%29

Yep, she was a good shot...

1895 THE EXECUTION OF MARY STUART http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOLsH93U1Q

Pretty shocking considering the vintage. It's a re-enactment of the beheading where we see the head detach and the executioner show the trophy to the gathered crowd. Ewwww....

1896 THE KISS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q690-IexNB4

Features the first ever celluloid kiss. No tongue. *sigh*

1897 THE X-RAYS or THE X-RAY FIEND

https://youtu.be/3gMCkFRMJQQ

Possibly the first use of the jump cut. At the time of the film, X-rays were still "cutting edge" having been invented just two years prior.

1898 SANTA CLAUS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSJ5SAXHws

The first Christmas-themed movie and also the first instance of parallel action. Charming short. (less) (less)

Greg

5 years ago

18 Jan, 20

The ones I have already watched still count. I am viewing this goal as "getting an overview of the progression of filmmaking" so it's not necessary for me to look for new ones.

Also, before 1900 there aren't many surviving examples to select from.

wendy

8 years ago

23 Sep, 16

1914 - Love Story of Ann Thomas the Maid of Cefn Ydfa

1922 - Häxan: Witchcraft Through the (...more)