The Impossible Voyage A Day In The Hayfields Automobile Race For The Vanderbilt Cup The Wonderful Living Fan Blackpool Victoria Pier, Lancashire The Bold Bank Robbery Girls Taking Time Checks Tchin-Chao the Chinese Conjuror Audley Range School Blackburn Westinghouse Works
…aside from The Great Train Robbery of course. Alice in Wonderland The Gay Show Clerk The Kingdom of the Fairies Life of an American Fireman Momijigari Diving Lucy The Sick Kitten Old London Street Scenes Runaway Match Electrocuting an Elephant The Infernal Cauldron Desperate Poaching Affray Mary Jane’s Mishap The Music Lover A Chess Dispute
The revolution in sound recording is obviously the main focus of this site – but as far as a standard history of popular culture is concerned, the 1900s are better-remembered for the beginnings of the film industry – not yet started in Hollywood, but already beginning to differentiate this century from the last. Up to …
Or alternatively, Le Voyage dans la Lune and some other short films from 1902. The first film in our selection is a true leap forward for humanity, probably the first film that really stands up 116 years later, both as a very watchable story and as a work of art. If you’ve never watched it …
Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost A Ride on a Tramcar through Belfast Fire! Race for the Muratti Cup at Manchester The Countryman and the Cinematograph What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City The Man with the Rubber Head Cunard Vessel at Liverpool The Big Swallow Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre Nankin Road, …
Here’s a wonderful thing. In 1994 a stack of negatives was found in a cellar by workmen demolishing a shop. The prints turned out to be the largest surviving collection of actuality films anywhere in the world, and their restoration is almost certainly the best window on to life in Edwardian England. Sagar Mitchell and …
Joan of Arc Explosion of a Motor Car The One-Man Band Grandma’s Reading Glass Namo Village, Panorama Taken from a Rickshaw Messrs Lumb and Co Leaving the Works, Huddersfield Going To Bed Under Difficulties Le Danse Des Saisons Let Me Dream Again How It Feels To Be Run Over As Seen Through a Telescope The …
The Devil in a Convent Momijigari The Kiss in the Tunnel War Footage From 1899 (later compilation) The Pillar of Fire King John The Dreyfus Affair Upside Down; or, the Human Flies Street Scene, Mansion House, London The Mysterious Knight The Mysterious Portrait
The Astronomer’s Dream Dewar’s – It’s Scotch! (The first advert) Divers at Work on the Wreck of the “Maine” Eiffel Tower The Four Troublesome Heads A Switchback Railway Queen Victoria Arrives at a Royal Garden Party The Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat Tommy Atkins in the Park The Famous Box Trick Santa Claus Adventures of …
To mirror the main mix, this year we have some extra inappropriate content – irresponsible drinking, the occult, and actual sort-of porn. The Hallucinated Alchemist Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer The X-Rays The Bewitched Inn Making Sausages After The Ball Leaving Jerusalem by Railway Naval Combat in Greece Spanish Bullfight La prise de …
