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1911 in Film

A Trip Through New York City Dante’s Inferno (L’Inferno) Little Nemo The Battle The Diabolical Church Window First Indy 500 The Lonedale Operator The Fall of Troy Enoch Arden David Copperfield Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen The Coffin Ship His Trust Coronation of King George V The Odyssey (L’Odissea) Alkali Ike’s Auto As A …

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1910 in Film

Ramona Le Vitrail Diabolique New York of Today Twelth Night The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The House with Closed Shutters Alices’s Adventures in Wonderland Thunderbolt The Abyss (Afgrunden) Slippery Jim Making Christmas Crackers Frankenstein The Johnson-Jeffries Fight The Fugitive The Lad From Old Ireland Teddy Roosevelt Returns From Africa A Christmas Carol As It Is …

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1909 in Film

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy Les Joyeux microbes A Trap For Santa Le Locataire diabolique The Sealed Room The Cowboy Millionaire Teddy Roosevelt in Africa Fools of Fate La Papillon Fantastique Mr Flip The Red Man’s View The Airship Destroyer The Hessian Renegades Oliver Twist The Doctor’s Secret The Golden Louis A Midsummer Night’s …

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1907 in Film

That Fatal Sneeze The Red Spectre Tunneling the Channel The Policemen’s Little Run The Golden Beetle The Dancing Pig The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon The Race For The Sausage Ride through Victoria and Vancouver, Canada Laughing Gas Premier Prix de violoncelle / First Prize for Cello The Lion Hunt Ben-Hur

Georges Mendel’s ‘La Marseillaise’

Not even close to being the first sound film, and not particularly advanced technologically (being simply a mime to a pre-recorded disc), it’s still something of a marvel to see this performance 20 years before ‘The Jazz Singer’ and a few years before even silent shorts started coming out of Hollywood. Three minutes of your …

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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

Not the first animation ever, not exactly the first on film (Pauvre Pierrot holds this record, though it was figures projected on painted backgrounds), “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” is nevertheless the inception of the animated short. With a framing device of the artist drawing on a blackboard, it prefigures artistic animation rather than the …

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1905 in Film

Rescued by Rover La révolution en Russie La presa di Roma The Living Playing Cards The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog Halifax Catholic Procession The Night Before Christmas An Interesting Story Boarding School Girls At Coney Island The Black Imp Ormond Beach Florida Auto Races Baby’s Toilet The Kleptomaniac Special March Past of …

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