Films of the World 1888 to 1900

(Including color tinted and experimental sound films)

Compiled by John Winner

The following list is an attempt to document films made duing the period of 1888 to 1900. I have tried to include all available information on each film that could be found. Images of films have been included when they could be found. Sources have been included at the end of the document. This is an ongoing project and this document is not 100 percent complete. Any new information can be sent to me at: isuxors@hotmail.com.

1888

[Accordion Player]Director: Louis Aimé Augustin le PrinceProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably 1888Camera/Projector: LPCCP Type-1 MkIIfps: 10Runtime: 1.9 secondsCountry: United KingdomMain Actors: Adolphe le PrinceGenre:Notes: 20 frames exist. Sequence of Adlophe le Prince playing a diatonic button accordian,

on the steps of Joseph Whitley's home. Joseph Whitley was Adolphe's grandfather.

[Le Prince Motion Picture No. 1]Director: Louis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceProducer: Louis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceCinematographer: Louis Amié Augustin Le PrinceEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot October 1888Camera/Projector:fps: 10-12 Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Joseph WhitleyGenre: PortraitNotes: Shot in the garden of Whitley's home in Roundhay, Leeds, England. This is Le

Prince's first motion picture. Survival staus unknown.

[Man Walking Around Corner]Director: Louis Aimé Augustin le PrinceProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Writer:Date (production/release): 1888Camera/Projector: LPCC Type-16fps:Runtime:Country: United Kingdom

Notes: Only 16 frames exist

[Roundhay Garden Scene]Director: Louis Aimé Augustin le PrinceProducer:Cinematographer: Louis Aimé Augustin le

PrinceEditor: Louis Aimé Augustin le PrinceDistributor:Writer:Date (production/release): 14 October 1888Camera/Projector: LPCCP Type-1 MkIIfps: 12Runtime: 2.11 secondsCountry: United KingdomMain Actors: Harriet Hartley, Adolphe le Prince, Joseph Whitley, Sara WhitleyNotes: Shot at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay,

Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, United Kingdom.

[Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge]Director: Louis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceProducer:Cinematographer: Louis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): late October 1888Camera/Projector: LPCCP Type-1 MkIIfps: ~20Runtime: 2.76 secondsCountry: United KingdomGenre: ActualityNotes: Film of traffic on Leeds Bridge, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, United Kingdom.

Shot from Hicks the Ironmongers. Incomplete print exists. Le Prince's second Motion Picture.

1889

[Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses]Director: William Friese-GreeneProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Writer:Date (production/release): January 1889Camera/Projector: "chronophotographic" camera

fps:Runtime: [20 feet]Country: United KingdomNotes: Shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom. Shot on celuloid film. No copies survive.

1890

[Monkeyshines no.1]Director: William K.L. Dickson and Willian HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. Dickson and Willian HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): 21-27 November 1890

(possibly June 1889)Camera/Projector: Experimental motion picture process shot on

photosensitive paper sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder.fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: John Ott or G. Sacco AlbaneseGenre: ViewNotes: Experimental motion picture process shot on photosensitive paper sheet wrapped

around a rotating cylinder. Shot outside Building No. 4 of the Edison Laboratory. Prints exist in the Edison Historic Site film collection, and in the Library of Congress film archive. Musser control number 1.

[Monkeyshines No.2]

Director: William K.L. Dickson and Willian HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. Dickson and Willian HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyWriter:Copright: noneDate (production/release): shot 21-27 November 1890

(possibly June 1889)Camera/Projector: Experimental motion picture process shot on

photosensitive paper sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder.fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: John Ott or G. Sacco AlbaneseGenre: ViewNotes: Shot outside building 4 at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. Print

exists in the Edison Historic Site film collection. Musser control number 2.

[Monkeyshines No. 3]Director: William K.L. Dickson and Willian HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyWriter:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 21-27 November 1890 (possibly June 1889)Camera/Projector: Experimental motion picture process shot on photosensitive paper sheet

wrapped around a rotating cylinder.fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: John Ott or G. Sacco AlbaneseGenre: ViewNotes: Shot outside building 4 at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. Print

exists in the Edison Historic Site film collection.

[London's Traflgar Square]Director: Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William

Carr CroftsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Writer:Date (production/release): 1890Camera/Projector: "kinesigraph" camera on

celuloid filmfps: 10Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Notes: Only 10 frames survive

1891

[Men Boxing]Director: William K.L. Dickson and William

HeiseProducer: Cinematographer: William K.L. Dickson and

William HeiseEditor:Studio: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

Company

Distributor:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): ca. May – June 1891Camera/Projector: experimental horizontal feed camera with a round aperture and ¾ inch

wide film with a single edge row of sproket perforations.fps:Runtime: 5 seconds (12 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Dickson Greeting]Director: William K.L. Dickson and William

HeiseProducer: Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison's Black MariaWriter:Copyright:Date (production/release): 20 May 1991Camera/Projector: experimental horizontal feed camera with a round aperture and ¾ inch

wide film with a single edge row of sproket perforations.Fps: 30Runtime: 3 seconds (part 1), 15 seconds (part 2)Country:Main Actors: William K.L. DicksonGenre: ViewNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

Played for viewers at National Federation of Women's Clubs. One of the first public presentaions of a motion picture. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Newark Athlete] (aka Club Swinger no. 1, or Indian Club Swinger)Director: William K.L. Dickson and William

HeiseProducer: William K.L. Dickson and William

HeiseCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison's Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): May or June 1891

Camera/Projector: experimental horizontal feed camera with a round aperture and ¾ inch wide film with a single edge row of sproket perforations.

Fps:Runtime: 12 seconds (in two fragments)Country: United StatesMain Actors: unknownGenre: Perfomance, AthleticsNotes: Shot in the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building. Entered in the National Film

Registry in 2010. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Duncan and Another, Shop]Director: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison's Black MariaWriter:Date (production/release): 1891Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: James DuncanNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

[Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud]Director: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Studio: Edison's Black MariaWriter:Date (production/release): 1891Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: James Duncan, Fred C. DevonaldNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

[Experimental Edison Film with James Duncan] (aka [Duncan Smoking])Director: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing Company

Studio: Edison's Black MariaWriter:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1891Camera/Projector: Experimantal horizontal feed camera with a round aperture and ¾ inch

wide film with a single edge row of sprocket perforations.fps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: James DuncanGenre: ViewNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

Print exists.

[Monkey and Another, Boxing]Director: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Studio: Edison's Black MariaWriter:Date (production/release): 1891Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Notes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

1892

A Hand ShakeDirector: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1892Camera/Projector: early version of Edison's Kinetoscope verticle-feed (approximatley

35mm) spherical motion picture formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseGenre: View

Notes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey. Survival status unknown.

[Man on Parallel Bars]Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Studio: Writer:Date (production/release): 1892Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Notes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

An experimental film, never released to the public.

Pauvre Pierrot (Poor Pete)Director: Charles-Émile ReynaudProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): released 28 October 1892Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: ~15 minutesCountry: FranceMain Actors:Notes: Shown at the Théâtre Optique, part of the Pantomimes Lumineuses, one of the first

animated films.

Un bon Bock (A Good Beer)Director: Charles-Émile ReynaudProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): released 28 October 1892Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: ~15 minutesCountry: France

Main Actors:Notes: Shown at the Théâtre Optique, part of the Pantomimes Lumineuses, one of the first

animated films. No print exists

[Men Wrestling]Director: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William K.L. Dickson or William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1892Camera/Projector: shot on an early Edison Kinetoscope verticle-feed (approximatley 35mm)

spherical motion picture formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Genre: Sports, WrestlingNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

Survival status unknown

BoxingDirector: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1892Camera/Projector: early version of Edison's Kinetograph vertical-feed spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

Survival status unknown.

Le Clown et ses chiens (A Clown and his Dogs)Director: Charles-Émile ReynaudProducer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): released 28 October 1892Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: ~15 minutesCountry: FranceMain Actors:Notes: Shown at the Théâtre Optique, part of the Pantomimes Lumineuses, one of the first

animated films.

[Men Fencing]Director: William K.L. Dickson and Willaim HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1892Camera/Projector: eraly version of Edison's Kinetoscope vertical-feed (approximatley

35mm) spherical motion picture formatfps:Runtime: ~1 minuteCountry: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Shot at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey.

An experimental film, never released to the public. Selected frames were published in the journal The Phonogram in 1892. Survival status unknown.

1893

Blacksmith SceneDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Date (production/release): shot April 1893

/ released 9 May 1893

Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: 34 seconds (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Charles Kayser, John Ott and unknown Edison employeeNotes: First shown at the Brooklyn Institute on a Kinetoscope. Filmed entirely within the

Black Maria Studio. Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive. A surviving print was foound at the Henry Ford Museum.

[Friese-Greene Stereoscopic Cinematography Experiment]Director: William Friese-GreeneProducer: William Friese-GreeneCinematographer: William Friese-GreeneEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1893Camera/Projector: spherical (approximatly) 100mm stereoscopic format, Friese-Greene

experimantal stereoscopic process.fps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Incomplete print exists

1894

Horse-shoeingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

The Bar RoomDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Used as part of the presentaion of Edison's Vitascope motion picture projection

system. Survival status unknown.

[Amateur Gymnast, no. 1] ([Unsuccessful Somersault])Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Compnay: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot before mid-March 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetograph camera / Kinetoscope machinefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Performance, Sports, GymnasticsNotes: Survival status unknown. Musser control number 22.

[Ameture Gymnast, no. 2] (aka [Successful Somersault])Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:

Copyright:Date (production/release): shot before mid-March 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Performance, Sports, GymnasticsNotes: Survival status unknown. Musser control number 23

Annie OakleyDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

Company Studio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 1 Novenber 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (39 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annie Oakley, unknown assistantGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive, in the Academy of Motion

Picture Arts and Sciences film archive, and in the Archives du film di Centre national de la cinématographie film archive. Shot ion the Edison Black Maria studio. Musser control number 86.

Annabelle Butterfly DanceDirector: possibly William K.L. Dickson or

William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: probably William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:

Country:Main Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists

Annabell Serpentine Dance (aka Annabelle Serpentine Dance, no. 1)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot on or before 10 August 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive. Musser control number 49.

[Athlete with Wand]Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Compnay: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot ca. February 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (37 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, AthleticsNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria Studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Autour d'une cabine (Around the Bathing Hut)Director: Charles-Émile ReynaudProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Praxinoscope spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly comedyNotes: Print exists

Band DrillDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot Late

November 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (36 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Frank Baldwin [as Steele Ayers, band leader], Fred W. Boardman, William

Cushing, Ad. Dorsch, E.P. Brown, J.F. Boardman, George Goddard, E.F. Balch, Paul Pfarr

Genre: PerfomanceNotes: From the musical play “A Milk White Flag” by Charles Hoyt. Prints exist in the

International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

The Barbershop (aka Barbershop Scene)Director: William K.L. Dickson and William

HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): Premired as a projected image 23 April 1894Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Projected at Koster and Bial's Music Hall. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Bertholdi (Mouth Support)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Edna BertholdiGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Bertholdi (Table Contortion)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Edna BertholdiGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Billy Edwards and the UnknownDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Billy Edwards, ? WarwickGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Early subject used as part of the premire of Edison's Vitascope motion picture

projection system. Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

The Boxing Cats (aka Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's))Director: Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: probably Willaim HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot ca. July 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (33 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Henry Welton

Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Boxing Match]Director: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot before early March 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Bucking BronchoDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 16 October 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Lee Martin, Frank Hammitt, Sunfish the HorseGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Shot on the Edison Laboratory grounds. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Buffalo BillDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Colonel William F. CodyGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Buffalo DanceDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: Willaim HeiseEditor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Compnay: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): Shot 24 September

1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (17 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Last Horse, Parts His Hair, Hair Coat, 2 other unknownGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive, and in the Centre National de la Cinématographie film archive.

Caicedo (aka Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire, or Caicedo (With Pole), or Caicedo, no.1)Director: Willaim K.L. Dickson and Willaim

HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonStudio: Edison Black MariaProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyWriter:Copyright: none

Date (production/release): Shot 25 July 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (37 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Jaun A. CaicedoGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Shot on the grounds of the Edison Laboratory. Prints exist in the Library of Congress

film archive, and in the Academy Film Archive.

CarmencitaDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): Shot ca. 10-16 March

1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (38 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: CarmencitaGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Black Maria Studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

The Carnival DanceDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Lucy Murray, Mae Lucas, Maggie CroslandGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Cockfight (aka Roosters)Director: Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: probably William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff and GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot early March 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Survival unknown

Cockfight, no. 2Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: probably William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black Maria Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): August 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm

spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (aka Corbett-Courtney Fight)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Kinetoscope Exibition CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 17 November 1894 Wm. K.L.

Dickson

Date (production/release): shot 7 September 1894 / released late September 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (6 film, ~150 feet each)Country: United StatesMain Actors: James J. Corbett, Peter CortenayGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot at the Edison Black Maria Studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

DanceDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Frank Lawton, Miss Williamson, Miss FranceGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: From the musical play “A Milk White Flag” by Charles Hoyt. One of five films taken

from the stage production. Survival status unknown.

DanceDirector: William K.L. Dickson and Willaim HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Ruth Dennis (Ruth St. Dennis)Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Dance de VentreDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Madame DennisGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Dance of RejoicingDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Elsie Jones, No. 1Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format

fps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Elsie JonesGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (aka Fred Ott's Sneeze)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 9 January 1894 William K.L. DicksonDate (production/release): shot between 2 and 7 January 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (4 feet)Country: Unites StatesMain Actors: Fred OttGenre: ViewNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Finale of 1st Act, Hoyt's “Milk White Flag”Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: From the musical “A Milk White Flag” by Charles Hoyt. Survival status unknown.

Fire Rescue – H & L (aka Fire Rescue Scene)Director: William K.L. Dickson and William

HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. Dickson and

William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): Shot between 1 October and 17 December 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Shot at the Edison Black Maria Studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive, and in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

Glenroy Bros. (aka Glenroy Bros. (Comic Boxing))Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 6 October 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Mr. Glenroy, Mr. Glenroy, 5 onlookers, refereeGenre: Perfomance, Comedy, SketchNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria Studio. Print exists

Glenroy Bros., no. 2Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black Maria

Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): Shot 6 October 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: ~27 seconds (33 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Mr. Glenroy, Mr. GlenroyGenre: Perfomance, Comedy, SketchNotes: Print exists

Grundy and FrintDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: ? Grundy, ? FrintGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Hadj Cheriff (aka Arab Knife Juggler)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 6 October 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (36 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Hadji L. CheriffGenreNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria Studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Imperial Japanese DanceDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): ca. Oct-Nov 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (~45 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: The Sarashe SistersGenre:Notes: Shot at Edison Black Maria Studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

The Leonard-Cushing FightDirector: Enoch RectorProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Kinetoscope Exhibition CompanyProduction Company:Studio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 14 June 1894 /

released July or August 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps: 30 or 48Runtime: (6 reels of ~150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Michael Leonard, Jack Cushing, referee, 4 onlookersGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria Studio. Incomplete reel of 69 feet is all that exists of this

film. First Kinetoscope Exhibition Company production.

Luis Martinetti (aka Luis Martinetti, Contortionist)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 11 October 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (29 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Luis MartinettiGenre PerfomanceNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria Studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Gymnasts on Parallel BarsDirector: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot before early 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Highland DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Hindoostan Fakir and Cotta DwarfDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Hornbacker and Murphy (aka The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Willaim HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 2 October 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Eugene Hornbacker, ? MurphyGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Comprised of five seperate reels, one for each round. Print exists in the Museum of

Modern Art film archive (one round only).

Indidan War CouncilDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ViewNotes: Survival status unknown

In the Dentist's ChairDirector: Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

James GrundyDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894

Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48 Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: James GrundyGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: One of two films of Grundy made in 1894. Survival status unknown

James GrundyDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: James GrundyGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: One of two Grundy films made in 1894. Survival status unknown

John W. Wilson and Bertha WaringDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: John W. Wilson, Bertha WaringGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[K.M.C.D. Syndicate Mutoscope Experimental Film]Director: Herman CaslerProducer:

Cinematographer: Herman CaslerEditor:Distributor:Production Company: K.M.C.D. SyndicateStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): possibly shot September 1894Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot at Casler's home in Canastota, New York. Survival status unknown.

Lady FencersDirector: Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

LaymanDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country:

Main Actors: George LaymanGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Mlle. CapitaineDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Mademoiselle CapitaineGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

New BarbershopDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

New Bar RoomDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing Company

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

New Blacksmith Shop Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Survival status unknown

Organ GrinderDirector: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Paddle DanceDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Pes Seul No. 1Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Lucy MurryGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Pes Seul No. 2Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894

Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Mae LucasGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Pedro Esquirel and Dionecio GonzalesDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Perdo Esquirel, Dionecio GonzalesGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The PickaninniesDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Professor AttillaDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Professor AttillaGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

QuartetteDirector: possibly William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: From the play “Trilby”. Survival status unknown

The RixfordsDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United States

Main Actors: The RixfordsGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Robetta and DorettoDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot 26 November 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: ? Robetto, Phil Doretto (Phil Lauter)Genre: Perfomance, Vaudville, ComedyNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Film is presumed lost.

Robetta and Doretto (aka Chinese Laundry Scene)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot ca. 26 November

1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (39 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Rob RoyDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Richard CarrollGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Sandow (aka Sandow, no. 1)Director: William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 May 1894 William K.L. DicksonDate (production/release): shot 6 March 1894 /

released May 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime: (39 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Eugene Sandow (Friedrich Muller)Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Short Stick DanceDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48

Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Silver DanceDirector: Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Sioux Ghost Dance (aka Ghost Dance)Director: Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: Willaim HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & Gammon (domestic),

Maguire & Baucus (international)Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 24 September

1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (39 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, Dance, Native AmericanNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art

film archive, and in the Centre National de la Cinématographie film archive.

Skirt Dance Dog

Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Summersault DogDirector: William K.L. HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Terriers attack Rats]Director: possibly William K.L. Dickson and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48

Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Topack and SteeleDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: George Topack, George W. SteeleGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

TrapezeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Vincente Ore PassoDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:

Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing Company Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Vincente Ore PassoGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Walton and SlavinDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing Company Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Mr. Walton, Mr. SlavinGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

WrestlingDirector: possibly William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly Perfomance

Notes: Survival status unknown

The Wrestling DogDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): possibly shot July 1894Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Henry WeltonGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Young WeimerDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Mr. WeimerGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

1895

Akrobatisches PotpourriDirector: Max Skladanowsky and Emil SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer: possibly by Max SkladanowskyEditor:Distributor:Studio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released 1 November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm shperical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre: Notes: One of the first german produced films. Survival status unknown.

Annabelle Butterfly Dance (aka Annabelle Butterfly Dance, no. 2)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot February 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Color tinted. Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Survival status unknown. Part of

the premiere presentaion of Edison's Vitascope motion picture projection system. Musser control number 117.

Annabelle Butterfly Dance (aka Annabelle Butterfly Dance, no. 3)Director: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Continental Commerce CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot between April and

August 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle Whitford

Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Some prints color tinted. Print exists in the

Museum of Modern Art film archive. Musser control number 140.

Annabelle Serpentine Dance (aka Annabelle Serpentine Dance, no. 2)Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot in February 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Survival status unknown. Musser control

number 116.

Annabelle Serpentine Dance (aka Annabelle Serpentine Dance, no. 3)Director: Wiliam HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Continental Commerce CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 8 May 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot between April and

August 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (45 or 50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Hand color tinted. Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Library

of Congress film archive, and in the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institue film archive. Musser control number 139.

ApothéoseDirector: Max Skladanowsky and Emil Skladanowsky

Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released 1 November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre: Notes: One of the first German produced films. Survival status unknown.

L'Arroseur arrosé (Watering the Waterer)Director: Louis LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released 10 June

1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe

spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: 49 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors: François Clerc [as the gardener], Benoît Duval [as the boy]Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot at Jardin des Lumière à Lyon Monplasir, 264 cours Gambetta in Lyon, France.

First French fiction film. Print exists. Generally thought to be the first film comedy. Lumière film number 99.

[The Babies' Quarrel] (aka Childish Quarrel)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Prints exist. Lumière film number 82.

Baby and the Fish BowlDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Survival status unknown

Baignade en mer (aka A Dip in the Sea)Director: possibly Louis LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released 21

September 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Clos-des-plages at La Ciotat, France. Print exists. Lumière film number 11.

Barque sortant du port (small Boat Leaving Port)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Date (production/release): 1895Copyright: Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists.

[Bathing in the Mediterranian]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

[The Blacksmith at Work]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Bootblack at Work in a London StreetDirector: possibly Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer: possibly Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Paul spherical 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Das boxende KänguruhDirector: Max Skladanowsky and Emil

SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 1 November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre:Notes: One of the first German produced films. Survival status unknown.

Boxing Match (aka Boxers)Director: Brit AcresProducer: Brit Acres

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Boxing MatchDirector: possibly Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer: possibly Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Bridget Serves the Salad Undressed (aka No Salad Dressing Wanted)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):1895Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Chapeaux à transformations (Transformation by Hats)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 105.

Charcuterie méchnique (The Sausage Machine)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

The Clown BarberDirector: James WilliamsonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Williamson Films

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (70 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Survival status unknown

Le débarquement du congrès de photographie à LyonDirector: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 11 June 1895 / premiered 12 June 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: 48 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors: Jules Marey, Pierre Jules César JanssenGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot at Neuville-sur-Sâone, France. Print exists.

[The Degradation of Dreyfus]Director:Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Démolition d'un murDirector: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: Auguste LumièreGenre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 40.

The DerbyDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul and

Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 29 May 1895Camera/Projector: Paul-Acres 48 FPS 1.33:1 35mm formatfps: 48Runtime: 28 secondsCountry: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot at the Epsom Derby. Print exists.

[Dickson Experimental Sound Film] (aka [Dickson Violin])Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot ca. September

1894 or 2 April 1895Camera/Projector: Probably Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: William K.L. DicksonGenre: Experimental, Synchronized sound filmNotes: Experimental Edison sound-on-cylinder sound system. Shot in the Edison Black

Maria studio. Original sound cylinder found in the 1990's, reconstructed and digitaly resynched in 2002. Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, and in the Library of Congress film archive.

Engine and PumpDirector: possibly Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Americam Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Shot in Canastoda, New York. Biograph production number 6. Survival status

unknown

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (aka The Execution of Mary Stuart)Director: Alfred ClarkProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot 28 August 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (27 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Robert Thomae [as Mary, Queen of Scots], Mrs. R.L. ThomasGenre: Drama, Trick film Notes: Possibly shot outside Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the International

Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, and in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Exterior of Brit Acres' Home, Clovelly Cottage]Director: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Acres' first motion picture. Survival status unknown.

[Firemen Extinguishing a Fire]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Les ForgeronsDirector: Louis Lumière and possibly Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 28 December 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: 49 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot on the Lumière factory grounds in Lyon, France. Lumière film number 53.

Survival status unknown.

The German Emperor Reviewing His TroopsDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresCinematographer: possibly Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot summer 1895Camera/Projector: Paul spherical 48 FPS 35mm formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Italienischer BauerntanzDirector: Max Skladanowsky and Emil

SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer: Max SkladanowskyEditor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): released 1

November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors: Ploetz, LarellaGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot at Feldschlösschen, Pankow, Berlin, Germany. Survival status unknown.

Joan of ArcDirector: Alfred ClarkProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Willaim HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot late August or September 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

[Juggler]Director: Max Skladanowsky and Emil SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 1 November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical format

fps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre: possibly PerfomanceNotes: One of the first German produced films. Survival status unknown.

[Lambda Experimental Film]Director: possibly Otway Latham or William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock format.fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Latham Pantoptikon Experimental Film]Director: possibly Otway LathamProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Pantoptikon spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps: ~40Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Woodville Latham, Otway Latham, ? Lauste [as young man]Genre: ViewNotes: Survival status unknown

[A Lesson in Vaulting]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Lion, London Zoological Garden]Director: Alexandre LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 54.

LutteDirector: Max Skladanowsky and Emil SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 1 November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: Germany

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: One of the first German produced films. Survival status unknown.

La mer Director: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreCinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: 38 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors:Genre: View, ScenicNotes: Survival status unknown

[M. Lumière Receiving Guests]Director: possibly Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: ? LumièreGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[Monsieurs Jannsen and Lagrange]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 12 June 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: M. Jannsen, M. LagrangeGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[Niagara Falls]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

[Nicholas Sisters Split Dance]Director: Otway LathamProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: posibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released August 1895Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Nicholas SistersGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: The Nicholas Sisters were from a Koster & Bial's Music Hall stage production. Shot

on the roof of Madison Square Garden. Survival status unknown.

The Opening of the Kiel CanalDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot June 1895Camera/Projector: Paul-Acres spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: 18 seconds (14 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Germany. Survival status unknown.

Partie d'écartéDirector: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 1895 / premiered 20

February 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Antoine Lumière, Alphonse Winkler, Félicien Trewey, Antoine FéraudGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 73.

Pêche aux poissons rougesDirector: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): premiered 10 June 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: 38 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors: Auguste Lumière, Andrée LumièreGenre:Notes: Shot at Monplaisir in Lyon, France. Survival status unknown. Lumière film number

69.

[Performing Animals] (aka Skipping Dogs)Director: Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists in the National Fairground Archive (University of Sheffield Library)

[The Place de la Bourse at Lyon]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Place des CordeliersDirector: possibly Louis Lumière and Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 10 June 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1

formatfps:Runtime: 40 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: shot on the Place des Cordeliers in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film number

128.

Princess AliDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Maguire & BauacusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 9 May 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (21 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Princes AliGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists

Le repas de bébéDirector: Louis Lumière and Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot late February

or early March 1895 / premiered 10 June 1895

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 format

fps: ~16Runtime: 41 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors: Auguste Lumière, Marguerite Lumière, Andrée LumièreGenre: ViewNotes: Shot at Monplasir in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film number 88

[Ross-Roeber Wrestling Match]Director: Otway LathamProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Duncan C. Ross, Earnest RoeberGenre: Documentary, Sports, WrestlingNotes: Survival status unknown

A Rough Sea at DoverDirector: possibly Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer: possibly Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Paul spherical 48 FPS 35mm

formatfps: 48Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Paul's first film. Print exists

[Russian Dance]Director: Max Skladanowsky and Emil SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 1 November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre:Notes: One of the first German produced films. Survival status unknown.

Le saut à la couvertureDirector: Louis Lumière and possibly Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 10 June

1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: 41 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Part-Dieu in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film number 192.

[Serpentine Dance]Director: Max Skladanowsky and Emil SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 1 November 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors: Madamoiselle AnçionGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: One of the first German produced films. Survival status unknown.

[Sheepshead Bay Horse Race]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

The Sidewalks of New YorkDirector: Otway LathamProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: From the play “The Sidewalks of New York” by Davis and Keogh. Film is presumed

lost.

The Sidewalks of New YorkDirector: James H. White Producer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Possibly Raff & Gammon or Edison Manufacturing Company Production Company: James H. WhiteStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: From the play “The Sidewalks of New York” by Davis and Keogh. Shot on Mott

Street in New York, New York. Survival status unknown.

La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière (aka Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)Director: Louis Lumière and Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 22

March 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: 46 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Reputedly the first motion picture made by the Lumière brothers. Shot at Usine

Lumière in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film number 91 [first version].

La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière (aka Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)Director: Louis Lumière and Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe

spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Usine Lumière in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film number 91 [second

version].

La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière (aka Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)Director: Louis Lumière and Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Usine Lumière in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film number 91 [third

version].

Tom Merry, Lightening CartoonistDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Tom Merry, Lightening CartoonistDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Trewey's Serpentine Ribbon]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Société LumièreProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Félicien Trewey or Lucian TreweyGenre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy] (aka Crude Set Drama)Director: Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul and

Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot March 1895Camera/Projector: possibly Paul-Acres 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: 36 secondsCountry: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Venice, Showing Gondolas]Director: possibly Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: A Lumière subject planned as part of the premiere presentation of Edison's Vitascope

motion picture projection system. Survival status unknown.

La voltigeDirector: Louis Lumière ans Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 10 June 1895Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1

formatfps:Runtime: 46 secondsCountry: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Part-Dieu in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film number 194.

Washday TroublesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

The WavesDirector: Otway LathamProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1895Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Young Griffo vs. Battling Charles BarnettDirector: Otway LathamProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: possibly Lambda CompanyProduction Company: Lambda CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 4 May 1895 / premiered 20 May 1895Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Albert Griffiths, Charles BarnettGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot on the roof of Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. Film is

presumed lost.

1896

L'abreuvoir (aka The Horse Trough)Director: Producer:Cinematographer: possibly Francis DoublierEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

American Falls from Above, American SideDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 December 1896 Thomas A.

EdisonDate (production/release): shot in first week of December 1896 / released December 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (37 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

American Falls from Bridge, Niagra FallsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:

Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

American Falls from Incline RailroadDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Company: 24 December 1896 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot between 11-13 December 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Niagra Falls, New York. Survival status unknown.

American Falls, Goat IslandDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 April 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released September 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (135 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Also distributed in 25 foot length. Print exists in the library of Congress film archive.

American Falls, Luna IslandDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Company: 24 April 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released September 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Amy MullerDirector: possibly William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): possibly shot on 24

March 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps: 48Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Amy MullerGenre: Performance, DanceNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria studio. Film was also available in a 50 foot length. Some

Release prints were hand colored. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive, in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, and in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences film archive. Musser control number 152.

[The Aquarium]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société Lumière

Production Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Survival status unknown

[Arab Cortege, Geneva]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 310.

An ArrestDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:

Notes: Survival status unknown

The Arrest of a Bookmaker.Director: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released May 1896Camera/Projector: possibly Kinematograph 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

The Arrest of a PickpocketDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released May 1896Camera/Projector: possibly Kinematograph 35mm

spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists. The last know print of the film was recovered in 2006 from an attic in

England.

The Arrival of Li Hung ChangDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing Company

Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): shot 29 August 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Li Hung ChangNotes: Shot in New York, New York. Survival status unknown.

Arrivée d'un train (Gare de Joinville)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film presumed lost. Frazer control number 35.

Arrivée d'un train gare de VincennesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film presumed lost. Frazer reel number 8.

Arrivée d'un train à Battery Place

Director: Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot 25 September 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in New York, New York. Print exists. Lumière film number 320.

Arrivée d'un train à MelborneDirector: Marius SestierProducer:Cinematographer: Marius SestierEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot 3 November 1896 / released 19 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: (42 feet)Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute.

Lumière film number 652.

Arrivée d'un train à PerracheDirector: Louis LumièreProducer: August Lumière and louis LumièreCinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released 23 March 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 format

fps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Gare de Perrache, Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France. Print exists. Lumière

film number 127.

Arrivo del treno stazione di MilanoDirector: Italo PacchioniProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: ItalyMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: First Italian produced film. Survival status unknown.

L'Arroseur (aka Watering the Flowers)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Thèâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm sperical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Film presumed lost. Frazer reel number 6.

Artillerie (exercice du tir)Director: Alexandre PromioProducer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot June 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 267.

[Atlantic Avenue, Boston]Director: possibly Eugène PromioProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Eugène PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot late 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Autruches (Ostriches)Director: possibly Louis Lumière and Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:

Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 4.

Awakening of RipDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American

Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced in

1895 / probably released in 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive

Baignage de chevauxDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot 20 October 1896 / released 12 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 357.

The Bad Boy and the GardenerDirector: possibly William HeiseProducer:

Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): First exhibited publicly November 1896 by J. Stuart Blackton and

Albert Smith.Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard spherical 1.37:1

formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

Les Bains de Diane à MilanDirector: possibly Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released 12 July 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30: formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Shot in Milan, Italy. Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 277.

Bareback Riding, Sixth U.S. CavalryDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:

Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown.

Barnet Horse FairDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Notes:

Barque en mer (Small Boat at Sea)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot 16 January 1896 / released 3 June 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly actualtyNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 10.

Barque sorant du port de TrouvilleDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:

Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 31.

Basse-courDirector: possibly Louis Lumière and Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 14.

Bateau-Mouche sur la Seine (Steamboats on River Seine)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 16.

Batteuse à vapeurDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost.

Bébé et fillettesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 14.

Bicycle Parade on the BoulevardDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format

fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Le BivouacDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost.

The Black Diamond Express (aka The Black Diamond Express, no. 1)Director: James H. White and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: James H. White and William

HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 December 1896 Edison

Manufacturing CompanyDate (production/release): shot 1 December 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot near Wysox, Pennsylvania. Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film

archive.

Blackton Sketches, No. 2Director: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot in July or August 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart BlacktonGenre: Perfomance, SketchingNotes: Possibly shot on the rooftop at the Raff & Gammon offices on West 28th Street, New

York, New York. Survival status unknown.

Blackton Sketches, No. 3Director: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot either July or August 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart BlacktonGenre: Perfomance, SketchingNotes: Thought to have been shot on the rooftop of the Raff & Gammon offices at West 28th

Street, New York, New York. Survival status unknown.

Les blanchisseuses (The Washerwomen)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-Houdin

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Film presumed to be lost. Frazer reel number 7.

[Boats on the Seine]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: France of United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Paris, France. Survival status unknown.

Bois de Boulogne (aka Bois de Boulogne (Touring Club))Director: Georges MélièsProducer: George MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 20.

Bois de Boulogne (aka Bois de Boulogne (Porte de Madrid))Director: Georges MélièsProducer: George MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 21.

Boulevard des ItaliensDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 18.

Boxeurs (aka A Friendly Boxing Match) (aka The Prizefighters)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Print exists

The Boxing KangarooDirector: Brit AcesProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released

January 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Print exists in the National Fairground Archive (University of Sheffield Library)

Boxing Match; or, Glove ContestDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released January 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: Uinted KingdomMain Actors: Sergeant-Instructor F. Barrett, Sergeant PopeGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Print exists in the National Fairground Archive (Universty of Sheffield Library)

[Broadway, New York City]Director: possibly Eugène Promio

Producer:Cinematographer: possibly Eugène PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

The Broken MelodyDirector: Esme CollingsProducer: Esme CollingsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): released October 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Auguste Van Biene, Mrs. Van BieneNotes: From a play by James Tanner and Herbert Keane. Survival status unknown. One of

approximatley 30 short films released by 1896 by Collings.

[Brooklyn Bridge]Director: possibly Eugène PromioProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot late 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France

Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

BrüderDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre: possibly documentaryNotes: Produced by the members of the 1896 Hamburg transport workers general strike.

Survival status unknown.

The Buffalo Horse MarketDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

BullfightDirector: Gray Lantam and Eugène LausteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company: The Eidoloscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot 26 March 1896Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope 35mm spherical format or Eidoloscope spherical widegauge

filmstock formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Mexico City, Mexico. Survival status unknown.

[Bullfight at Juarez]Director: Enoch J. RectorProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Made for the Rector and Tilden peep show machines. Survival status unknown.

A Bungling WaiterDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:

Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Burning StableDirector: William Heise and/or James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William Heise and.or

James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George

Eastman House, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Campement de bohémiens (Gypsy Camp)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 25.

Carmaux, défournage du coke (Drawing out the Coke)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 122.

[The Cascade (Geneva Exposition)]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société Lumière Production Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Notes:Print exists

Le cauchemar (The Nightmare)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical format

fps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

[The Cavalry Sham Battle]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Notes: Survival status unknown

Central ParkDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): probably shot May 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

35mm 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first films shot with the portable Edison camera. Survival status unknown.

Champs-Elysées (aka Champs Elysées (Paris))Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:

Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 25 April 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Sur le Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France. Survival status

unknown. Lumière film number 151.

Champs-ElyséesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 152.

[The Changing of the Guard, Unter den Linden]Director: Max SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer: Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: Germany

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[The Charge of the Seventh French Cuirassiers]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Charge of West Point CadetsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Cherbourg: Débarquement des souverains russesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société Lumière

Production Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 5 October 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 161.

Les chevaux de bois (aka A Merry-Go-Round)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 5.

Démolition d'un murDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Notes: Film is presumed lost

[Chicago Police Parade]Director: Eugène Promio

Producer:Cinematographer: possibly Eugène PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot late 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists

Le chiffonier (The Rag Picker)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 9.

Children in the NurseryDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released October 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)

Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Chirgwin in His Humorous BusinessDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released June 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: G.H. ChirgwinGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Chirgwin Plays a Scotch ReelDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released June 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: G.H. ChirgwinGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Cissy Fitzgerald]Director: possibly William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & Gammon

Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Cissy FitzgeraldGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Distributed in a hand colored version. Survival status unknown.

Clark's Thread MillDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Combat de coqsDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 20 October 1896 / released 6 December 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:

Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 26

[Comic Encounter]Director: Max SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot August 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: ~18 minutesCountry: GermanyMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

ContortionistDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[The Coronation of Czar Nicholas II]Director: Boleslaw MatuszewskiProducer:Cinematographer: Boleslaw MatuszewskiEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Cortège du Tsar allant à VersaillesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Couronnement de la rosière (aka Corination of a Village Maiden)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 13.

Cronin, American Club ManipulatorDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Morris CroninGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown.

Cronin with Three ClubsDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Morris CroninGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Dancing DarkiesDirector: possibly Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format

fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Biograph production number 41.

Dancing GirlsDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Alhambra GirlsGenre:Notes: Hand colored by a Mr. Doubell. Survival status unknown.

Danse mexicaineDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 20 October 1896 / released 12 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 353.

Danse serpentineDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:

Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possiblt 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost.

Danse sur scène (pas de deux)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): possibly shot in March 1896 / released 6 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 29.

Déchargement de bateauxDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:

Genre:Notes: Film presumed lost. Frazer reel number 27.

Défense d'afficher (aka Post No Bills)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists. The film was recovered in 2004. Frazer reel number 15.

Départ des automobilesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost

Départ des officiersDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost

Députations asiatiquesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 26 May 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 306.

Les dernières cartouchesDirector: Georges HatotProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896 or 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Earliest known example of hand colored film. Survival status unknown. Lumière film

number 745.

Devant's Exhibition of Paper FoldingDirector: Producer: Robert W. Paul Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released June 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Devant's Hand ShadowsDirector: Producer: Robert W. Paul Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released June 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: David DevantGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Dragons traversant la Sâone à la nageDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot February 1896 / released 23 August 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 format

fps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 186.

Drill of the Engineer CorpsDirector: Gray Latham and Eugéne LausteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: The Eidoloscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably shot in March 1896Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock or Eidoloscope 35mm

spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Mexico. Survival status unknown

Duel au pistoletDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released 12 or 13 December 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: France Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 35.

Edison Drawn by “World” Artist (aka Blackton Sketches, no. 1)Director: possibly William Heise and/or James H.

White Producer:Cinematographer: possibly William Heise and/or

James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot July or August 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart BlacktonGenre: Perfomance, SketchingNotes: Possibly shot on the rooftop at Raff & Gammon offices. Print exists in the Museum

of Modern Art film archive.

The Egg-Laying ManDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released June 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: David DevantGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Effets de mer sur les rochersDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre:Notes: film presumed lost.

Elevated Railway, 23rd Street, New YorkDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably shot in May 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first films taken with the portable Edison camers. Survival status

unknown.

[The Emperor Franz Josef Opening the Millenial Exhibition]Director: Arnold SziklayProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: HungaryMain Actors:

Genre: DocumentaryNotes: The first Hungarian produced film. Survival status unknown.

Empire State ExpressDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. BitzerEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 12 Oct 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: 36Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: The film was made for Biograph projection and was shown for the first Biograph

system program. Survival status unknown.

Enfants jouant sur la plageDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost.

Entrée du cinématographeDirector:Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société Lumière

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 27 April 1896 / released 10 May 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Premiered in London, England. Shot outside the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square,

London, England. Lumière film number 250.

Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin (aka The Vanishing Lady)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'AlcyGenre: Trick film Notes: Print exists

Fatima, Muscle DancerDirector: James H. White and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: FatimaGenre: Perfomance, Dance

Notes: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

La fée aux choux (The Cabbage Fairy)Director: Alice Guy (Alice Guy-Blaché)Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Société des Etablissements L. GaumontProduction Company: Société des Etablissements L. GaumontStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Believed to be the first film directed by a woman. Survival status unknown.

Feeding the DovesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 1896 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm

spherical 1.33:1 format ot Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Ferry Boat Leaving Dock, New YorkDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing Company

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm shperical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Fifth Avenue, Easter Sunday MorningDirector: possibly Gray Latham and Eugéne LausteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: The Eidoloscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock format or Eidoloscope 35mm

spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Fire Department Run, New HavenDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 January 1897 American Mutoscope CompanyDate (production/release): released Nov 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (26 or 157 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Actuality

Notes: Survival status unknown

The Fire EngineDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps: Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot in Paris, France. Survival status unknown.

Fitzsimmons-Maher FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Kinetoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 21 February 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Bob Fitzsimmons, Peter MaherGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

[A Friendly Boxing Match]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Golfing Extraordinary, Five GentlemenDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released May 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Footage shot for Kinetoscope usage. Survival status unknown.

[The Gondolas]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Venice, Italy. Survival status unknown.

[Government Printing Office Employees Leaving Work]Director: Marius SestierProducer: Marius Sestier and Walter BarnettCinematographer: Marius SestierEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

A Hard WashDirector: possibly William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. BitzerEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 12 October 1896Camera/Projector: posible Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: 36Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Film was made for Bopgraph projection and shown for the first Biograph system

projection. Biograph production number 30. Survival status unknown.

The Haymakers at WorkDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Henley RegattaDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Herald SquareDirector: Willaim HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably shot May 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first films shot with the portable Edison camera. Survival status unknown.

Her Brave DefenderDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Highgate TunnelDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: probably ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Highland DancersDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical format

fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Hyde Park at Noon]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Interrupted Love Affair (aka Interupped Lovers)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ComedyNotes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House.

Jardinier brûlant des herbes (Gardener Burning Weeds)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film presumed lost. Frazer reel number 4.

Jetée et Plage de Trouville (aka Jetée et Plage de Trouville, 1st Part)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 30.

Jetée et Plage de Trouville (aka Jetée et Plage de Trouville, 2nd Part)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 32.

Joueurs de cartes arrosésDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot April 1896 / released 18 October 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 115.

Jour de marché à Trouville [Market Day]Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film presumed lost. Frazer reel number 33.

Komische Begegnung im Tiergerten zu StockholmDirector: Max SkladanowskyProducer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: Germany or SwedenMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Kørsel med grønlandske Hunde (Driving with Greenland Dogs)Director: Peter ElfeltProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot December

1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime: 46 seconds (10 meters)Country: DenmarkMain Actors: Johan Carl JoensenGenre: Drama, ActualityNotes: The first Danish produced film. Survival status unknown.

LabourageDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot April 1896 / released 25 October 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:

Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 59.

[La Loïe Fuller Dance]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: ? FullerGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: La Loïe Fuller did not actually dance in this film. She did not want to travel to West

Orange, New Jersey, the dance was actually performed by Fuller's sister. Survival status unknown.

Lancement d'un navire (aka Launching of a Ship)Director: Louis Lumière and possibly Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 21 March 1896 / premiered 18 April 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at naval docks at La Seyne-sur-Mer, France. Print exists. Lumière film number

57.

Landing at Low TideDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released June 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot in Brighton, England. Print exists in the National Fairground Archive

(University of Sheffield Library)

Lassage d'un cheval sauvageDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 20 October 1896 / released 12 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 350.

LaveusesDirector: possibly Louis LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): premiered 14 June 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: François-Henri Lavanchy-ClarkeGenre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Maison de Lavanchy-Clarke in Geneva, Switzerland. Survival status

unknown. Lumière film number 60.

[Leaving Jerusalem by Railway]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

LionDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 54.

The Lone FishermanDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House.

Un lycée de jeunes filles (aka Academy for Young Ladies)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 19.

Major McKinley at Home (aka President McKinley at Home)Director: possibly William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. Bitzer and/or William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): shot September 1896 / preniered 12 October 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: ~36Runtime:Country:Main Actors: Major William McKinley, McKinley's secretaryGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Canton, Ohio. Film made for Biograph projection and shown for the first

Biograph system program. Print exists.

Le manoir du diable (aka The Haunted Castle)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released 24

December 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime: ~3 minutesCountry:Main Actors: Georges Méliès (as Mephistopheles), Jeanne d'Alcy [as the girl]Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists. Frazer reel numbers 78-80.

[The March of the 96th Regiment of the French Infantry]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Maréchal-ferrantDirector: Louis Lumière and possibly Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 26 April 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot at La Ciotat, France. Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 62.

[Market Scene]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Vienna, Austria. Survival status unknown.

Mauvaises herbesDirector: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): shot 29 March 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 64.

The May Erwin KissDirector: Willaim HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: 47 seconds (50 feet) Country: United StatesMain Actors: May Erwin, John C. RiceGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, and in the [Canadian] National Film, Television and Sound Archive.

McKinley and Hobart Parade at Canton, O.Director: possibly William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 12 October 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: ~36Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Major William McKinley, Garret HobartGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Film made for Biograph projection and was shown for the first Biograph system

program. Survival status unknown.

[McKinley Campaign “Sound Money” Parade]Director: Enoch J. RectorProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot with Rector's lightweight hand-cranked camera using Edison format 35mm

filmstock. Survival status unknown.

The Melbourne CupDirector: Marius SestierProducer: Marius Sestier and Walter BarnettCinematographer: Marius SestierEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 3 November 1896 / premiered 24 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: Australia Main Actors: Walter Barnett, Lord BrasseyGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot at the Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia. One of the first Australian

film productions. Incomplete print exists in the Screenland Australia / National Film & Sound Archive.

A Military ParadeDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possilby 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Mr. Maskeleyne Spinning Plates and BasinsDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released July 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Nevil MaskeleyneGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Monroe DoctrineDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:

Notes: Used as part of the premiere presentation of Edison's Vitascope motion picture projection system. Survival status unknown.

A Morning AlarmDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 27 November 1896 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 14 November 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (96 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Newark, New Jersey. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

A Morning Bath; or, Bathing the BabyDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 31 October 1896 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

The Mysterious RabbitDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:

Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released June 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: David DevantGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Newark Fire Department in Action]Director: Enoch J. RectorProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 format.fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot with Rector's lightweight hand-cranked camera, using Edison format 35mm

filmstock. Survival status unknown.

New South Wales Horse Artillery in ActionDirector: Marius SestierProducer: Marius Sestier and Walter BarnettCinematographer: Marius SestierEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 24 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: Australia

Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Victoria Barracks, Australia. Survival status unknown.

New York, Broadway et Union SquareDirector: Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: AcrtualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 328.

The N.Y. “World” Sick Baby FundDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Niagara Falls GorgeDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:

Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Niagara, les chutesDirector: possibly Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

Une nuit terribleDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:

Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

96ème de ligne en marcheDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot January 1896 / released 29 March 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 191.

The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race Director: Brit AcresProducer: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul and Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 30 March 1895 / premiered 27 May 1896Camera/Projector: Paul-Acres spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Panorama de HavreDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 34.

Panorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du trainDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 130.

Panorama du Grand Canal pris d'un bateau Director: Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 13 Dec 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Lumière film number 295.

Parade of Bicyclists at Brooklyn, New YorkDirector: possibly William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Parade of New York City Crossing SweepersDirector: possibly William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Parade, Sound Money Club, Canton, O.Director: Possibly Willaim K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 18 Dec 1896 American Mutoscope CompanyDate (production/release): released September 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: 36Runtime: (349 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Also available in a 60 foot length. Survival status unknown.

Paris, bassin des Tuileries (aka Bassin des Tuileries)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 4 April 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 150.

Un partie de cartesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Georges MélièsGenre:Notes: Print exists. Méliès' first film production. Frazer reel number 1.

Passaic Falls, New Jersey (aka Paterson Falls)Director: James H. White Producer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: noneDate (production/release): shot before mid-July 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Paterson, New Jersey. Prints exist in the International Museum of

Photography and Film at george Eastman House, and in the Academy Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science film archive.

Passengers Alighting from Ferry “Brighton” at ManlyDirector: Marius SestierProducer: Marius Sestier and Walter BarnettCinematographer: Marius SestierEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot October 1896 / premiered 24 November 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: Australia Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first Australian film productions. Survival status unknown

[Passengers Descending from the Brooklyn Bridge]Director: possibly Eugène PromioProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Eugène PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot in late 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Passion DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompayStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: DoloritaGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Pastime in the Family Circle]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Survival status unknown

Un petit diableDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel 12.

Piccadilly CircusDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 20 February 1896 / released 23 August 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 255.

Pierrot and PierreteDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released October 1896

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Place de la ConcordeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot in Paris. Survival status unknown

Place de l'Opera (aka Place de l'Opera, 1st view)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 10.

Place de l'Opera (aka Place de l'Opera, 2nd view)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges Méliès

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 17.

Place du Théâtre FrançaisDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 11.

Plage de Villiers par gros tempsDirector: Société LumièreProducer: Société LumièreCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France

Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 28.

Plus fort que le maîtreDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 3.

[Policemen's Parade, Chicago]Director: possibly Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released 25

September 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 336.

Pompiers à LyonDirector: possibly Louis Lumière and/or Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

Pont de BrooklynDirector: Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released 25

September 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 321.

Pont de la TourDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société Lumière

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 20 February 1896 / released 30 August 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status. Lumière film number 253.

Le président en promenadeDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 6 August 1896 / released 16 August 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Porfino Diaz, Claudio Fernando Bon BernardGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 348.

[Prince Edward's Horse, Persimmon, Wins the Prince's Derby]Director: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly Kinematograph 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Prince NapoléonDirector: Francis DoublierProducer:Cinematographer: Francis DoublierEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Prince Napoléon of RussiaGenre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost.

Programme NadarDirector: Paul NardarProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (7 feet, 15 inches)Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print existst in the Cinémathèque Françaises

Les quais à MarseillesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 29.

Quarrelsome NeighborsDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Procession]Director: Bert BernardProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survivla status unknown

Le régimentDirector: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Le régiment (aka Franch Regiment Going on Parade)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 24.

Return of the Fisherman Director: possibly William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:

Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Rip and the DwarfDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American

Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced 1895 / probably released 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Rip Leaving Sleepy HollowDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American

Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced 1895 / probably released 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Rip Meeting the DwarfDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American

Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced

1895 / probably released 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Rip Passing Over HillDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American Mutoscope

& Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced 1895 /

probably released 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Rip's SleepDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American Mutoscope &

Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced 1895 /

probably released 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Survival status unknown

Rip's ToastDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American

Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced 1895 / probably released 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Rip's Toast to Hudson and CrewDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 December 1902 American

Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably produced 1895 / probably released 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Rip Van WinkleDirector: Wallace McCutcheonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. BitzerEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): possibly produced 1895 / premiered 12 October 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: 36Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joseph Jefferson [as Rip Van Winkle]Genre:Notes: Film was made for Biograph projection and was shown for the first Biograph system

program. Survival status unknown.

Rue de HavreDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Paris, France. Survival status unknown.

Rue TverskaïsDirector: Charles MoissonProducer:Cinematographer: Charles MoissonEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot in Moscow, Russia. Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 307.

Ruraux au galopDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 15 September 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 347.

[Russian Sailors]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Moscow, Russia. Survivla status unknown

SandowDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 November 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Eugene Sandow (Friedrich Muller)Genre: PerfomanceNotes: One of two Sandow films shot in 1896 for the Mutoscope camera. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive. Biograph production number 12.

SandowDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 June 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): 1896

Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Eugene Snadow (Friedrich Muller)Genre: PerfomanceNotes: One of two Sandow films shot in 1896 for the Mutoscope camera. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive. Biograph production number 12.

Savetage en rivière (aka Savetage en rivière, 1st part)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 22.

Savetage en rivière (aka Savetage en rivière, 2nd part)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 23.

[Scene from Coronation of the Czar of Russia]Director:

Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire and BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm sphericalfps:Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Moscow, Russia. Survival status unknown

Séance de prestidigitationDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 2.

Sea Waves (aka Sea Waves at Coney Island)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 23 April 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:

Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Used a part of the premiere presentaion of Edison's Vitascope motion picture

projection system. Survival status unknown.

Sea Waves at DoverDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Footage shot for Kineopticon use. Survival status unknown.

Shooting the ChutesDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably shot before 22 June 1896 / premiered June 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Also alaivable in a 50 foot length. Shot at Coney Island, New York. Print exists in the

International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

The Sisters Hengler Specialty DancersDirector:

Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Mary Hangler, Flora HenglerGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Sixty Miles an HourDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. BitzerEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 12 October 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: ~36Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Made for Biograph projection and shown at the first Biograph system program.

Survival status unknown.

[Skating in Central Park]Director: possibly Eugène PromioProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Eugène PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot late 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:

Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Skirt Dance by AnnabelleDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown. Biograph production number 9.

The Soldier's CourtshipDirector: Alfred MoulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released May 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Fred Storey, Julie SealeGenre: ComedyNotes: Possibly the first narrative film made in the United Kingdom. Shot on the roof of the

Alhambra Theatre in London, England. Film is presumed lost.

Les souverains et les invités se rendant au sacre (escalier rouge)Director: Charles MoissonProducer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 26 May 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Czar Nicholas II, possible Alexandra FedorovnaGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Moscow, Russia. Lumière film number 300. Survival status unknown.

Sparring Contest, Canastoda, N.Y.Director: possibly William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 December 1896Date (production/release): possibly shot 5 August 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: possibly Al Leonard, Bert HosleyGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot in Canastoda, New York. Survival status unknown. Biograph production

numbers 1 through 4.

Stable on FireDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. BitzerEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 12 October 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: ~36Runtime:Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: The film was made for Biograph projection and was shown for the first Biograph

system program. Survival status unknown.

[The Steamship St. Louis]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Street Sprinkling and Trolley CarsDirector: possibly William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

The Suburban HandicapDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[Suicide of Colonel Henry]Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: One of the “Dreyfus” films. Survival status unknown.

[Sunday Strollers from Hyde Park to the Domain by Way of St. Mary's Cathedral]Director: Marius SestierProducer:Cinematographer: Marius SestierEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Marius Sestier and Walter BarnettStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: Australia

Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

The Surf at Atlantic CityDirector: possibly William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

A Surrey GardenDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released Aug 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Tambourine Dance by AnnabelleDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope Company

Production Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown. Biograph production number 10.

The Tea PartyDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Tea Time]Director: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Threshing MachineDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ViewNotes: Shot in Canastoda, New York. Survival status unknown. Biograph production number

5.

Tom Merry, Lightening CartoonistDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Tom Merry, Lightening CartoonistDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): released March 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Traffic in the Alexanderplatz]Director: Max SkladanowskyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

[Train Scene]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: possibly Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France or United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Paris, France. Survival status unknown.

Tramway sur le Grand CanalDirector: possibly Alexandre Promio

Producer:Cinematographer: possibly Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot before 27 August 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 293.

Trilby and Little BilleeDirector: possibly William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. BitzerEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 December 1896 American Mutoscope CompanyDate (production/release): premiered 12 Oct 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: ~36Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Film was made for Biograph projection and was shown for the first Biograph system

program. Survival status unknown. Biograph production number 36.

Trilby BurlesqueDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released April 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical format

fps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Alhambra GirlsGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Twins' Tea-PartyDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released August 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (32 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Two A.M.; or, The Husband's ReturnDirector: Producer: Robert W. Paul Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released August 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Paul Clerget, Miss Ross-SelwickeGenre: ComedyNotes: From a play by Paul Clerget. Print exists

[Two Trains Colliding]Director: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William Heise

Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 30 May 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Canton Ohio. Survival status unknown

Umberto e Margherita di Savoia a passeggio per il parcoDirector: Vittorio CalcinaProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: ItalyMain Actors: King Umberto, Margherita ?Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Umbrella DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 23 April 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:

Country: United StatesMain Actors: The Leigh SistersGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Used in the permiere presentaion of Edison's Vitascope motion picture projection

system. Survival status unknown.

[Union Square]Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot spring 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Possibly Biograph production number 7.

[Union Square, New York]Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot spring 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Possibly Biograph production number 8.

Upper Rapids of NiagaraDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: possibly G.W. BitzerEditor:

Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 12 October 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps: ~36Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Made for Biograph projection and was shown as part of the first Biograph system

program. Survival status unknown

Up the RiverDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released July 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Drama, ActionNotes: Survival status unknown

Victorian Lady in Her BoudoirDirector: Esme CollingsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm sphericalfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:

Genre: ViewNotes: One of approximatley 30 shorts produced in 1896 by Collings. Survival status

unknown.

La voiture du potierDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Film presumed lost

The Wandering Negro MinstrelsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released February 1896Camera/Projector: possibly Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

[Washing Day in Switzerland]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société Lumière

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Watermelon Contest (aka Watermelon Eating Contest)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Raff & GammonProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

A Watermelon FeastDirector: possibly William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 December 1896 American Mutoscope CompanyDate (production/release): released September 1896Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (155 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Comedy

Notes: Also sold in a 28 foot length. Survival status unknown. American Mutoscope production number 40.

Water Tobogan (montagnes russes sur l'eau)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 98.

Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara FallsDirector: possibly Gray Latham and Eugéne LausteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: possibly Eidoloscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector: possibly Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock format or

Eidoloscope 35mm spherical foramtfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving HarbourDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1896Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: 20 secondsCountry: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the National Fairground Archive (University of Sheffield Library)

You Dirty BoyDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released October 1896Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

1897

Acteurs japonais: Bataille au sabreDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière 978

Acteurs japonais: Dance d'hommeDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 976.

Admiral CigaretteDirector: possibly William HeiseProducer:

Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing

CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 5 August 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot July 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetograph camera / Kinetoscope machinefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country:Main Actors:Genre: AdvertisingNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

An Affair of HonorDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 November 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, and the Library of Congress

film archive.

Les Aïnus à Yéso, IDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 741.

Les Aïnus à Yéso, IIDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 742

Ambulance at the AccidentDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 8 October 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: John Tierney [as the victim]Genre: DramaNotes: Shot in Orange, New Jersey. Probably intended to be shown after the film

“Ambulance Call”. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive. Musser control number 426.

Ambulance CallDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 8 October 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Shot in Orange, New Jersey. Print exists in the library of Congress film archive.

Musser control number 425.

Annabelle Serpentine Dance (aka Annabelle Serpentine Dance, no. 4)Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 8 May 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot late April to early May 1897Camera/Projector: possibly Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (45 or 50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Annabelle WhitfordGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the National Archives of

Canada, Visual and Sound Archives. Musser control number 339.

Après le bal – Le tub (After the Ball – The Tub)Director: Georges MélièsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-

HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Jeanne d'Alcy [as the woman], Jeanne Brady [as her maid]Genre: ViewNotes: Print exists

Armour's Electric TrolleyDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:

Writer:Copyright: 31 July 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): probably shot in June or July 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Notes: Shot in Chicago, Illinois. A film in the Erie Railroad series. Print exists in the Library

of Congress film archive. Musser control number 355.

L'Arrivée d'un train en Gare de la CiotatDirector: Louis LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 4 January 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: France Main Actors: Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière, Rose Lumière, Marguerite Lumière, Andrée

Lumière, Suzanne LumièreGenre: ActualityNotes: Shot at La train station La Ciotat, France. Print exists. Lumière film number

653.

Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal.Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot August 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (68 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at the intersection of Washington Street and Stout's Alley, between Grant

Avenue and Stocken Avenue, San Francisco, California. Print exists in the Library of

Congress film archive. Musser control number 397.

[Artillery in Barcelona]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

The Artist's ModelDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Prestwich Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm shperical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

Atlantic City Fire DepartmentDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 26 April 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released August 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (52 or 311 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

L'auberge ensorcelée (aka The Bewitched Inn)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-

HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Baby Merry-Go-RoundDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: Americam Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 July 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released October 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Coney Island, New York. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Bad Boy and Poor Old GrandpaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

La Bandera Argentina (The Argentine Flag)Director: Eugenio PyProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Eugenio PyEditor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (17 meters)Country: ArgentinaMain Actors:Gerne: Notes: The first Argentine produced film. Survival status unknown.

[The Barber's Shop in the Village]Director: Ernest FlormanProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical format

fps:Runtime:Country: SwedenMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Thought to be Sweden's first film. Survival status unknown.

Bataille de neige (aka Bataille de boules de neige)Director: Louis Lumière and/or Auguste

LumièreProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Louis LumièreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): premired 7 February

1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Monplasir, Cours Gambetta in Lyon, France. Print exists. Lumière film

number 101.

Bateaux sur le lac de St-James ParkDirector: Alexandre PromioProducer:Cinematographer: Alexandre PromioEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot September 1897 / released 21 October 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 695.

Battleships “Iowa” and “Massachusetts”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

The Biggest Fish Ever CaughtDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[The Bois de Boulogne]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Bolster FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Chard's VitagraphStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released June 1897Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Bombardement d'une maison (aka The Last Cartridges)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime: (1 foot 11 inches)Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists in the CNC Archives Françaises de Film. Frazer reel number 105.

Bowery WaltzDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 24 September 1897 Thomas A EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: James T. Kelly, Dorothy KentGenre: Perfomance, Dance, ComedyNotes: Shot at the Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive. Musser control number 387.

Boxing for PointsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Buffalo Bill and EscortDirector: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing Company

Studio:Writer:Copyright: 8 May 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released May 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Colonel William F. CodyGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown. Possibly produced in 1894 and copyrighted and rereleased

in 1897.

Buffalo Police on ParadeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 31 July 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released July 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Buffalo, New York. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Burglar Caught in the ActDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (22.02 meters)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:

Notes: Survival status unknown

[Burmese Dance at the Crystal Palace]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Survival status unknown

[Butterfly Dance]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Le cabinet de MephistophelesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

California Orange Groves, Panoramic ViewDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

[Carnival at Nice]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown.

Caught NappingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released April 1897Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (143 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Film was also sold in a 26 foot length. Survival status unknown.

'chand d'habitsDirector: M. AlexandreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: BelgiumMain Actors:Genre:Notes: The first Belgian fiction film. Survival status unknown.

[Charge of Cavalry in France]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Charity BallDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 24 September 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: James T. Kelly, Dorothy KentGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archives. Musser control number 388.

Le château hanté (The Haunted Castle)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Print exists

Chicken ThievesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ComedyNotes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House.

[Children – Cat and Dog]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: France Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Children Paddling at the SeasideDirector: George Albert SmithProducer: George Albert SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): released September 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot at Southwick, England. Survival status unknown.

Christmas MorningDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Christmas Tree PartyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Cocoanut FairDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: possibly IndiaMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Possibly the first Indian produced film, or produced by a Brithish company in India.

Survival staus unknown.

Columbia Bicycle FactoryDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly documentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Combat naval en Grèce (Sea Fighting in Greece)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime: (1 foot 6 inches)Country:Main Actors: possibly Georges Méliès [as the ship's captain]Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists in the CNC Archives françaises du film. Frazer reel number 110.

Comic Face (aka Man Drinking)Director: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Tom GreenGenre: ComedyNotes: Thought to be Britain's first close up cinematography. Survival status unknown.

Comic Shaving (aka Comic Barber)Director: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): released September 1897Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Tom Green, W. CarlileGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Concorde Bridge, Paris]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

The Corbett-Fitzsimmons FightDirector: Enoch J. RectorProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly The Veriscope CompanyProduction Company: The Veriscope CompnayStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 17 March 1897 / released 22 May 1897Camera/Projector: Veriscope 63mm spherical 1.65:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: James J. Corbett, Robert FitzsimmonsGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot in Carson City, Nevada. The first Veriscope production. Possibly the first true

wide-screen footage to be shown publicly. Print exists.

The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (aka The Great Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Faked recreation of the famed boxing match, produced to compete with the Veriscope

Company's legal version. Survival status unknown.

Crissie SheridanDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Crissie SheridanGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

Cupid and PsycheDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 22 August 1897 /

released October 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: The Leander SistersGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot at the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California. Print exists in the Library of

Congress film archive.

Cupid at the WashtubDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

[The Czar of Russia in Paris]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société Lumière

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Danse serpentineDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premeired 26 December 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Some prints were hand colored. Print exists. Lumière film number 765.

Danseuses japonaisesDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 740.

Danseuses: La danse des éventailsDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constat GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 979.

The Death of NelsonDirector: Producer: Philip WolfCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released October 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: From a song by Braham. Survival status unknown.

Déchargement dans un portDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 73 or 736.

Dewar's Scotch WhiskeyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: International Film CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: AdvertisingNotes: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

[The Diamond Jubilee Procession]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Dîner japonaisDirector: Constant GirelProducer:

Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 733.

[The Disappointed Artist]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[The Disputed Fare]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: France

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Downey-Patterson FightDirector: Producer: Edwin Kuhn and Charles H. WebsterCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: International Film CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

A Dressing Room SceneDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released May 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (149 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Escrime au sabre japonaisDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société Lumière

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 926.

Facial Expression by Loney HaskellDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Loney HaskellGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Farmer's First Trip to Bergen BeachDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: International Film CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

FatimaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: International Film CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: FatimaGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Faust et MargueriteDirector: Georges MélièsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: From the opera “Faust” by Charles Gounod. Survival status unknown.

Figaro et l'AuvergnatDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly DramaNotes: Print exists in the holdings of Lobster Films. (recovered in 1990's, restored in 2006).

[Fire Brigade Call, London]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

First Avenue, Seattle, Washington, no. 8Director: Producer:Cinematographer: Robert K. BonineEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released October 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film in the Alaska Gold Rush series. Print survives in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Fisherman's LuckDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 September 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Fun on the ClotheslineDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Harry LamoreGenre: Perfomance, ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The GamblersDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. paulStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Giant Coal DumperDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 2 July 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released July 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Girls' Boarding School (aka Fun in a Boarding House)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Girls Swinging (aka Girls Swimming)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 November 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released June 1897Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (152 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Print exists

GoatDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Possibly a continuation of a two part film, probably preceeded by “Spree”. Survival

status unknown.

Gymnasticas – Indian Club PerformerDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): released September 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Hail Britannia!Director: possibly Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Charles BertramGenre: PerformanceNotes: Survival status unknown

L'hallucination de l'alchimiste (aka The Hallucinated Alchemist)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre: ComedyNotes: Film is presumed lost. Frazer reel number 95.

[Hamburg Bridge, Germany]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

The Haunted TunnelDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released December 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Survival status unknown

Horse Eating HayDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: The first Lubin release. Survival status unknown.

Horses Loading for the Klondike, no. 9Director: Robert K. BonineProducer:Cinematographer: Robert K. BonineEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 1897 / released October 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Seattle, Washington. A film in the Alaska Gold Rush series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

[Hussars Passing Through Dublin]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

JealousyDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Genre: Drama, CrimeNotes: Survival status unknown

[King Oscar II]Director: Georges PromioProducer: Numa Peterson and Mortimer PetersonCinematographer: Georges PromioEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Nandels and Fabriks ABStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: France or SwedenMain Actors: King Oscar II of SwedenGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[Lancers in Stuttgart]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

A Lively DisputeDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Loading Baggage for Klondike, no. 6Director: Robert K. BonineProducer:Cinematographer: Robert K. BonineEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: Unites StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Seattle, Washington, at the docking of the ship S.S. Willamette. A film in the

Alaska Gold Rush series. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Lutteurs japonaisDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survivla status unknown. Lumière film number 925.

The Maid in the GardenDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released August 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Tom Green, Nellie GreenGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

Making Sausages (aka The End of All Things)Director: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A. SmithStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released December 1897

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Survival status unknown

Le marché aux poissons de BruxellesDirector: M. AlexandreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: BelgiumMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first Belgian produced films. Survival status unknown.

Market Square, Harrisburg, Pa.Director: James H. White and William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: James H. White and Willaim HeiseEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 8 January 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 24-26 December 1896 / premiered 13 January 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Print exists in the International Museum of

Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

MarquisDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: From the play “The Geisha” by Owen Hall. A companion film to “Mountainous”

(1897). Survival status unknown.

Melbourne CupDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 2 November 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: Australia Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

The Miller and the SweepDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): released July 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

The Miller and the SweepDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading Company (in 1900)Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (52 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: A remake of “The Miller and the Sweep” (1897). Print exists

The Miller and the SweepDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Probably a remake of both films titled “The Miller and the Sweep” (1897). Survival

status unknown.

Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical LaboratoryDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 5 June 1897Date (production/release): released June 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Thomas A. EdisonGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists.

La mort de RobespierreDirector: George HatotProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

MountainousDirector: Producer: Robert W. paulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: From the play “The Geisha” by Owen Hall. A copmanion film to “Marquis” (1897).

Survival status unknown.

[The Naval Review]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Nursing the BabyDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Comedy Notes: Survival status unknown

Panorama des rives du NilDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Print exists

Parisian DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 15 January 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Passion PlayDirector: W.W. 'Doc' FreemanProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: W.B. Hurd, Marc Klaw and Abraham L. ErlangerStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: probably Drama, HistoricalNotes: Shot in Höritz, Bavaria. Survival status unknown

Pillow FightDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing

Company or F.M. PrescottProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 May 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot ca. May 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (45 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Un pont à KyotoDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 737.

[President McKinley Inaugural Speech]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot March 1897Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: William McKinley Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[President McKinley Inaugural Speech]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot March 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[President McKinley Inaugural Speech]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): shot March 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: President William McKinley Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

The Pretty Stenographer; or, Caught in the ActDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (26 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot in the American Mutoscope studios in New York, New York. Survival status

unknown.

La Prise de TournavosDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Production Company: Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre: DramaNotes: Print exists

Procession shintoïsteDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 739.

Professor Garland the ConjurorDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Prestwich Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Professor GarlandGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Projectile Striking Water, Sandy Hook (aka Firing 10-Inch Gun)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Print exists

Queen Victoria's Diamond JubileeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm sphericalfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocNotes: Print exists

[Queen Victoria's Jubilee Celebration]Director: Boleslaw MatszewskiProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists

Racing at Sheepshead BayDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 22 June 1897Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Railway Ride Over Tay BridgeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (292 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Railway Station SceneDirector: possibly Edmund Kuhn or Charles WebsterProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Edmund Kuhn and/or Charles WebsterEditor:Distributor:Production Company: International Film CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably late February 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Print exists in the International Museum of

Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

Repairing a PunctureDirector: Walter D. WelfordProducer: Walter D. WelfordCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer: Walter D. WelfordCopyright:Date (production/release): released December 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Survival status unknown

Repas d'IndiensDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 6 August 1896 / released January 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Claudio Fernando Bon BernardGenre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 351.

Repas en familleDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société Lumière

Production Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 734.

The Rival Bill-StickersDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

RobberyDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Une rue à TokyoDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 738.

Une scène au théâtre japonaisDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 975.

[A Scene in Parliament Street]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Scene Taken from a Moving Train Near Clapham Junction]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Seminary GirlsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing

CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released April 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

SerpentelloDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Velograph SyndicateStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released October 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Sign Writer (aka The Awkward Sign Writer)Director: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Survival status unknown

[Sinking Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago]Director: Edward H. AmetProducer: Edward H. AmetCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: The film was shot with miniatures in Waukegan, Illinois. Survival status unknown.

[Soldiers' Parade in Madrid]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Sortie d'un temple shintoïsteDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 980.

[A Soudanese Swimming Bath]Director: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Spanish Dancers in Castille]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

SpreeDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United Kingdom

Main Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Probably the first part of a two part film, likely followed by “Goat” (1897). Survival

status unknown.

S.S. “Coptic” at DockDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 2 September 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in San Francisco, California. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive. Musser control number 398.

S.S. “Coptic” in the HarborDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical

1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

S.S. “Coptic” Sailing AwayDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

S.S. “Willamette” Leaving for KlondikeDirector: Robert K. BonineProducer:Cinematographer: Robert K. BonineEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Seattle, Washington. A film in the Alaska Gold Rush series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

A Story Without Words Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Prestwich Manufacturing Company

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Street Scene, Lunchroom Banner Over Street]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House.

The Sunlight Soap Washing CompetitionDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Nestlés and Lever Brothers Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: AdvertisingNotes: Film was made available to exhibitors free of charge. Survival status unknown.

Sur les Toits (aka On the Roof)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm sphericalfps:Runtime: (1 foot 11 inches)Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the CNC Archives françaises du film. Frazer reel number 100.

Sutro Baths, no. 1Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: 25 October 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 22 August 1897 / released October 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Statndard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Sutro Baths in San Francisco, California. Prints exist in the International

Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive, and the Library of Congress film archive. Musser control number 392.

Sutro Baths, no. 2Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing Company

Studio:Writer:Copyright: 20 or 25 September 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 22 August 1897 / released September 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 or 55 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Surto Baths in San Francisco, California. Print exists in the Library of

Congress film archive.

Sydney Wheel Race Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 6 November 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

TheftDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Comedy

Notes: Possibly the first part of a two part film, likely intended to be followed by “Tramps” (1897). Survival status unknown.

Through the Haverstraw TunnelDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: probably 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (54 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Biograph production number 301.

Tipsy – Topsy – Turvy Director: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): relaesed November 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Survival status unknown

[Tobagganing in Switzerland]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Towerskay in Moscow]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Two Fools in a Canoe (aka Two Cockneys in a Canoe)Director: Cecil Hepworth Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Cecil Hepworth Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

An Unfriendly CallDirector: Brit AcresProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer: Brit AcresEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released January 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Untitled Salvation Army Drama]Director: Joseph H. PerryProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Salvation Army Limelight Department, MelbourneStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Possibly the same film as “Our Social Triumphs” (1898). Survival status unknown.

[Unveiling of a Monument to William I, Parts I, II and III]Director: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

The Vanishing LadyDirector: Producer: Robert W. Paul Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Charles BertramGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Village BlacksmithDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm sphericalfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Mel B. SpurrGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

24ème chasseurs alpins: leçon de boxeDirector: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 7 March 1897Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot at Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. Lumière film number 171. Survival status

unknown.

V.R.C. DerbyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 30 October 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Washing the BabyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:

Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Survival status unknown

Weary WillieDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Tom GreenGenre: ComedyNotes: From the British comic strip “Weary Willie and Tired Tim” by Tom Brown. Survival

status unknown.

Willie's HatDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

The Writing on the WallDirector: Walter D. WelfordProducer: Walter D. WelfordCinematographer:

Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released October 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: AdvertisingNotes: Survival status unknown

X-Ray (aka The X-Ray Fiend)Director: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released October 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (54 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Tom GreenGenre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute.

Young Men's Blaine Club of CincinnatiDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer: Copyright: 15 March 1897 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:

Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Young RivalsDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1897Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

1898

Acrobatic MonkeyDirector: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 15 March 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): between February and early March 1898Camera/Projector: Kinesigraph camera / Kinetoscope machinefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country:Main Actors:Genre: Performance: AcrobaticsNotes: Shot at Edison Black Maria Studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Acteurs japonais: Exercise de la perruqueDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constant GirelEditor:

Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown, Lumière film number 977

Admiral Cervera and Spanish Officers Leaving “St. Louis”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (57.61 meters)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Admiral Dewey Receiving His MailDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompnayStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George DeweyGenre: Documentary

Notes: Survival status unknown

Admiral Sampson on Board the FlagshipDirector: J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. Smith, James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: J. Stuart Blackton or Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CampanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 3 September 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 20 August 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetograph camera / Kinetoscope machinefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral William Thomas SampsonGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in New York harbor. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Advance Guard, Return of New Jersey TroopsDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 October 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot between 20-30 September 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetograph camera / Kinetoscope machinefps:Runtime: (~50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

After LaunchingDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 10 March 1898 Thomas A. Edison

Date (production/release): shot 22 January 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetograph camera / Kinetoscope machinefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California. A film in the Southern

Pacific Company Series. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

Afternoon Tea on Board S.S. “Doric”Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 June 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot in May 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetograph camera / Kinetoscope machinefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary or ComedyNotes: Shot at sea on the Pacific Ocean. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

After the BattleDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (200 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Survival Status unknown.

Ally SloperDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released October 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Survival status unknown. Based on a cartoon strip by Charles Ross.

American Flag (aka American Flag, no. 1)Director: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Company: 15 March 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot in February or early March 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: TableauNotes: Shot at Edison Balck Maria studio. Release prints were hand colored. Print exists in

the Library of Congress film archive. Musser control number 530.

American Flag (aka American Flag. no. 2)Director: William HeiseProducer:Cinematographer: William HeiseEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 17 March 1898 Thomas A. Edison

Date (production/release): shot in February or Early March 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Gerne: ViewNotes: Shot in Orange, New Jersey. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Musser control number 532.

American Soldiers in CampDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: probalby 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Animated Clown PortraitDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): October 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Survival status unknown

Arrival of Tokyo TrainDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Frederick BlechyndenEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 July 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot between 14-30 March 1998Camera/Projector: Kinetoscopefps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Yokohama, Japan. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Musser control number 522.

Arrival of Train – Load of Visitors at Henley StationDirector: Cecil M. HepworthProducer: Cecil M. HepworthCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Arrivée d'un trainDirector: Constant GirelProducer:Cinematographer: Constat GirelEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 735.

Arrivée d'un train de VincennesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Compagnie Genérala des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes

& CinématographesStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: possibly the first Charles Pathé production. Survival status unknown.

Une avenue à TokyoDirector: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer: Tsunekichi ShibataEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 983.

The Baker and the SweepDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

The Ball GameDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 May 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released 20 May 1898Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, SportsNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Balloon Ascension, MarionettesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 October 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Prints exitst in the Library of Congress film archive.

Battle of GuantanomoDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Survival status unknown

The Battle of Manila BayDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: possibly American Vitagraph Company or Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot 19 May 1898Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot from the rooftop of the Vitagraph offices at 140 Nassau Street, New York, New

York. One of Vitagraph's earilest productions. One of the earliest uses of miniatures in a motion picture. Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

Battleship “Maine”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: International Film CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival Status unknown

[Belfast Lough Yacht Race]Director: R.A. MitchellProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: IrelandMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Thought to be the first Irish production. Survival status unknown.

The Big Monitor “Miantonomah”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical format

fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

BirdsnestingDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Bombardment of MatanzasDirector: Edward H. AmetProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edward H. AmetStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Boston CommanderyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

The BreadwinnerDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

The Bride's First NightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:

Genre: ViewNotes: Survival status unknown

The Bride's First NightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Haydon & UrryStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Intended to be shown before “Twelve Months After”. Survival status unknown.

El Brujo desapareciendoDirector: José E. CasasúsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: CubaMain Actors:Genre: Notes: First Cuban produced film. Survival status unknown.

The Burglar in the Bed ChamberDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:

Writer:Copyright: 16 December 1898 possibly Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

The Burglar on the RoofDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 Dec 1898 possibly Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1898 / premiered October 1898Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (45 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton, Mrs. Olsen, Ernest Oakes, Charles Urban, Ronald A.

ReaderGenre: Drama, CrimeNotes: Shot on the roof of the Vitagraph studio at 140 Nassau Street in New York, New

York. Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

Burial of the “Maine” VictimsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

The Burning of the “Nutmeg State”Director: William C. PaleyProducer:Cinematographer: William C. PaleyEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: William C. PaleyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly documentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Capture of a Spanish Fort Near SantiagoDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Capture of the “Panama”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope Company

Production Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Castinet DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cimematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Senorita VelascoGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Cavalier's DreamDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor: Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 December 1898Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:

Notes: Survival status unknown

The Christian Herald's Relief Station, HavanaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Cinderella and the Fairy GodmotherDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Laura BayleyGenre: Trick filmNotes: First film to use a double exposure (along with “The Corsican Brothers”) and stop

action techniques in the United Kingdom. Survival status unknown.

La caverne maudite (The Cave of the Deamons)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Clog DancingDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released February 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (120 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Mr. BurnsGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Club Party and PoliceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Club RaidDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown. Possibly the same as Club Party and Police.

Colonial Troops Passing WestminsterDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Colored Troops DisembarkingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):

Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format

fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House.

Come Along Do!Director: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: probably Paul 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Possibly the first use of film editing in Great Britain. Print exists

Conway CastleDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released April 1898Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (79 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes:Survival status unknown

The Cop and the Nurse GirlDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 December 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released December 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Corsican BrothersDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: probably 35mm sperical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: From the novel “Les Frères Corses” by Alexandre Dumas. Survival status unknown.

Crusier “Detroit”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing or American Mutoscop CompanyProduction Company: possibly Edison Manufacturing Company or American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 21 April 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released 20 May 1898Camera/Projector: Standasrd 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format or Mutoscope 68mm spherical

1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

Cuban AmbushDirector: possibly William PaleyProducer:Cinematographer: William PaleyEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 5 August 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released August 1898Camera/Projector: possibly Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format fps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DramaNotes: Print exists

Cuban ReconcentradosDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (25 or 137 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Le cuirassè MainDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Théâtre Robert-HoudinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

La damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Georges MélièsGenre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Dance by the Daisy QuartetteDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Levi, Jones & CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released February 1898

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (70 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Daisy QuartetteGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[The Danish Royal Family]Director: Peter ElfeltProducer:Cinematographer: Peter ElfeltEditor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: DenmarkMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Danse indienneDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot on 2 or 3 September 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1000.

Danse japonais: II. HarusameDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:

Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1022.

Danse japonais: III. Geishas en jinrikishaDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1023.

Danse japonais: IV. JinkuDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: France

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1024.

Danse japonais: V. Gosho GurumaDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1025.

Defense of the FlagDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown.

The DeserterDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Robert W. PaulProduction Company: Robert W. Paul

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Devil's Island – Within the Paradise]Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: This is one of the Dreyfus films. Survival status unknown.

Dick Crocker Leaving Tammany HallDirector: possibly Willaim C. PaleyProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William C. PaleyEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: William C. PaleyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 9 February 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Dick CrockerGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

DisasterDirector: Producer: Robert W. Paul Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Divers at Work on the Wreck of the “Maine”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36: formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Doing Her Big Brother's Tricks on the BarDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Don Juan TenorioDirector: Salvador Toxano BarraganProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: MexicoMain Actors:Genre:Notes: First Mexican produced fiction film. Survival status unknown.

Dostavencícko Ve MlyniciDirector: Jan KrizeneckyProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: CzechoslovakiaMain Actors:Genre:Notes: One of Czechoslovakian produced films. Survival status unknown.

[Dreyfus Meets His Wife at Rennes]Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Another of the Méliès Dreyfus films. Survival status unknown.

Dynamite Cruiser “Vesuvius”Director: Edward H. AmetProducer: Edward H. AmetCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Egg and Spoon Race for Lady CyclistsDirector: Cecil M. HepworthProducer: Cecil M. HepworthCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown.

Ella Lola, a la TrillbyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 7 October 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released October

1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (47 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Ella LolaGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Shot at the Edison Black Maria studio. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Elopemant on HorsebackDirector: Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 26 November 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Esceñas CallejerasDirector: Antonio RamosProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: PhilippinesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first Philippine productions. Shot with a Lumière camera, but not a

Lumière production. Survival status unknown.

Exchange is No RobberyDirector: Cecil HepworthProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Cecil HepworthGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Excursion]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: GermanyMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Execution of the Spanish SpyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

ExhibitionDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer: Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Express Trains in a Railway CuttingDirector: Cecil HepworthProducer: Cecil HepworthCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Hepworth's first film production. Survival status unknown.

The FairyDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown.

Fake BeggarDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format

fps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

The Fatal LetterDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Ben NathanGenre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

Faust and MephistophelesDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Survival status unknown

A Favorite Nursery SceneDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Fencing Contest from “The Three Musketeers”Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Drama, HistoricalNotes: From the novel “Les trois mousquetaires” by Alexandre Dumas. The first film

adaptaion of the play. Survival status unknown.

Fiesta de QuiapoDirector: Antonio RamosProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: PhilippinesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Film shot with a Lumière camera but not a Lumière production. One of the

Philippines first productions. Survival status unknown.

15,000 Soldiers Reviewed by the Pres. At Camp AlgerDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Fighting Near SantiagoDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: S. LubinProduction Company: S. LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spheriacl formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Fighting Roosters, in FloridaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (37 or 209 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Firing Broadside at CabanasDirector: Edward H. AmetProducer: Edward H. AmetCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

First Regiment MarchingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: W.N. Selig CompanyProduction Company: W.N. Selig CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

A Fishing CatastropheDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

Flagship “New York” Under WayDirector: Edward H. AmetProducer: Edward H. AmetCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Flirtation in a BoatDirector: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Forbidden LoverDirector: James WilliamsonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: James WilliamsonStudio:Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (65 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: James WilliamsonGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

The Fraudulent BeggarDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Williamson FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (65 feet)Country: United Kingdom

Main Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown.

Freedom of CubaDirector: Edward H. AmetProducer: Edward H. AmetCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Fregoli the Protean ArtisteDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): March 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Leopoldo FregoliGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Gallop Past of Sydney Fire BrigadeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 1 September 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Gardener Watering Plants (aka The Biter Bit)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: R.A.B.Production Company: Riley Brothers-Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (68 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Gion GeishaDirector: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: JapanMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first Japanese films produced. Survival status unknown.

Girls Playing LeapfrogDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Chard's VitagraphStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released April 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Tiller GirlsGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Glasgow Fire EngineDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Good NightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released February 1898

Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Charles MortonGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Good NightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: C. Goodwin NortonStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (54 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Grand National SteeplechaseDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 16 July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Guillaume Tell et le clown (William Tell and the Clown)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre:Notes: Print exists. Frazer reel number 159.

Hat DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Senorita VelascoGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

He and SheDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Roma T. Roma, Frank WoodGenre: ComedyNotes: From a sketch by Roma T. Roma. Survival status unknown.

Highland Cross Sword DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Performance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Highland FlingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Leviathan FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Highland FlingDirector:

Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Performance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Highland ReelDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Un homme de têtesDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:

Runtime: (65 feet)Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

How Bridget Served the Salad Undressed (aka No Salad Dressing Wanted)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released May 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (22 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot in the American Mutoscope studios in New York, New York. Survival status

unknown. Possibly the same as “Bridget Served the Salad Undressed” (1895).

The Immature PunterDirector: Cecil Hepworth Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Cecil Hepworth Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Incoming TideDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Prestwich Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

The Inebriated PhotographerDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cimematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

An Interrupted PicnicDirector: Cecil HepworthProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Hepworth Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Cecil Hepworth

Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

In the Name of the QueenDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

Irish JigDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Levi, Jones & CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): rleased February 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (70 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: The Daisy QuartetteGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival stauts unknown

The Irish JigDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Leviathan FilmsStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Jealous PainterDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Williamson FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Jovial Monks in the RefectoryDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

JugglerDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cimematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Ala ComaGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

KarinaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 14 October 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released May 1898Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (170 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: KarinaGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

KitchenDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Tha Lady BarberDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Las Vigas Canal, MexicoDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 February 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Little Stanley, Lightning CartoonistDirector: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cimematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival stautus unknown

Little Willie and the MinisterDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released August 1898Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (155 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Also sold in a 28 foot length. Survival status unknown.

A Lively Card PartyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United Kingdom

Main Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The LodgerDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

La lune à un mètre (The Moon at One Meter) (aka The Astronomer's Dream)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-Film Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre:Notes: Print exists, Frazer reel numbers 160-162.

Le magicienDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-Film Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Print exists

[The Maine Explosion Victims Buried at Arlington National Cemetery]Director: Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: possibly American Vitagraph Company or Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format ot Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

MarionettesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The MascotsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Chard's VitagraphStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released April 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Tiller GirlsGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Mesmerist; or, Body and SoulDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot October 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Trick film Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Mr. Bumble the BeadleDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Comedy Notes: From the novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. Survival status unknown.

Moccessen the Human SnakeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: MoccessenGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The MonksDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Mount Tamalpais R.R., no. 1Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 10 March 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, ViewNotes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

Mount Tamalpais R.R., no. 2Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 10 March 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

A Narrow EscapeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1898Camera/Projector: possibly Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (25 or 152 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

[Naval Base st Portsmouth]Director: Charles UrbanProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Warwick Trading CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (possibly 2 reels, 1200 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

9th Infantry Boys' Morning Wash Director: William PaleyProducer:Cinematographer: William PaleyEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 May 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot May 1898

Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format

fps:Runtime: (39 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Tampa, Florida. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

Norah Mayer the Quick Change DancerDirector: James WilliamsonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Williamson FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (225 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Norah MayerGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Nursemaid's SupriseDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers-Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Old Glory and Cuban FlagDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 15 March 1898 Thoams A. EdisonDate (production/release): released March 1898Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

Opening of the Aukland ExhibitionDirector: A.E. WhitehouseProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 1 December 1998Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: New ZealandMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: First film produced in New Zealand. Survival status unknown.

The Opera MarthaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Richard G. Hollaman and Albert G. EavesStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (2 reels)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Allegedly released with synchronized phonograph records. Survival status unknown.

Our New General ServantDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. Paul Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (320 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: possibly the first use of intertitles in the United Kingdom. Survival status unknown.

Our Social TriumphsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Salvation Army Limelight, MelbourneStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered May 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

An Overful Seat (aka Weary Willie)Director: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Oxford and Cambridge Baot Race]Director: Cecil Hepworth Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Maguire & BaucusProduction Company: possibly Charles UrbanStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: First film shot by Cecil Hepworth. Survival status unknown.

Panorama de MinilaDirector: Antionio RamosProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: Philippines

Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: The film was shot using a Lumière, but is not a Lumière porduction. One of the

Philippines first film productions. Survival status unknown.

Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour EiffelDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 27 November 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Lumière film number 992.

Passage d'un tunnel en chemin de fer (pris de l'avant de la locomotive)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered May 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Lyon, France. Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 931.

The Passion PlayDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Knock-off version of “The Passion Play of Oberammergau” (1898) shot by Lubin's

company in the backyard of a house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Survival status unknown.

The Passion Play of OberammergauDirector: Henry C. VincentProducer: Richard G. Hollaman and Albert G. EavesCinematographer: William C. PaleyEditor:Distributor: later distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company Production Company: Eden MuséeStudio:Writer: adapted by Salmi MorseCopyright:Date (production/release): shot between December1897 and January 1898 / premiered 30

Jan 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (2100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Frank Russell, Frank Gaylor, Fred StrongGenre: DramaNotes: Total film originaly comprised 23 scenes each on a seperate reel. Shot on the rooftop

of the Grand Central Palace, New York New York. Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

Photographing a GhostDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical format

fps:Runtime: (76 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Survival status unknown

PhotographyDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Pillow FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Plác a SmíchDirector: Jan KrízeneckyProducer:Cinematographer: Jan Krízenecky

Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer: Josef Sváb-MalostranskyCopyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: CzechoslovakiaMain Actors: Josef Sváb-MalostranskyGenre: DocumentaryNotes: One of the first Czechoslovakian produced films. Survival status unknown.

Une place publique à TokyoDirector: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer: Tsunekichi ShibataEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 984.

The Policeman, the Cook and the CopperDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Tom Green

Genre: ComedyNotes: From the play “The Area Belle” by Tom Green. Survival status unknown.

[Pope Leo XIII]Director: William K.L. DicksonProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

A Practical Joke (aka A Joke on the Gardener)Director: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown. A remake of “L'arroseur arrosé” (1895)

Punch and JudyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: European Blair Camera CompanyStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (130 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, PuppetNotes: Survival status unknown

Puwente de EspañaDirector: Antonio RamosProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime: Country: PhilippinesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: The film was shot using a Lumière camera, but is not a Lumière production. Survival

status unknown.

The Quarrelsome Anglers (aka The Stolen Drink)Director: Cecil Hepworth Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Cecil Hepworth Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

A Railway Collision (aka A Railroad Wreck (Imitation))Director: Walter R. BoothProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: In U.S. by Edison Manufacturing Company (1900)Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (12.19 meters)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocNotes: Print exists

Rescue from DrowningDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

Une rue à Tokyo, IDirector: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer: Tsunekichi ShibataEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 981.

Une rue à Tokyo, IIDirector: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer: Tsunekichi ShibataEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 982.

The Runaway KnockDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1898 (released By Warwick Trading Company

1900)Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Runawawy Knock and the Suffering MilkmanDirector:

Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers-Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (57 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Sailor's DepartureDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Film was intended to be shown before “The Sailor's Return” (1898) Survival status

unknown.

Sailor's HornpipeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Levi, Jones & CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released February 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:

Runtime: (70 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Daisey QuartetteGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

The Sailor's ReturnDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Film intended to be shown after “The Sailor's Departure” (1898). Survival status

unknown.

Santa Claus (aka The Visit of Santa Claus)Director: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Print exists in the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute.

The Schoolmaster's PortraitDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers-Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Scotch ReelDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Levi, Jones & CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released February 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (70 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Daisy QuartetteGenre: Perfomance, DacneNotes: Survival status unknown

Seventy-First Infantry EmbarkingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:

Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Shooting Captured Insurgents, Spanish-American WarDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

Company Studio:Writer:Copyright: 5 August 1898Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Drama, Actuality (staged)Notes: Prints exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Siófoki kalandDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): premiered 29 April 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: HungaryMain Actors:Genre: possibly dramaNotes: The First Hungarian fiction film. Shows a sequence in the stage play

“Mozgáfényképek”. Survival status unknown.

Skirt DanceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:

Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Sleighing SceneDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 Dec 1898Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Sloper's Visit to BrightonDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: Jame WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (210 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:

Genre: ComedyNotes: From the comic strip by Charles Ross. Survival status unknown.

Soldiers at PlayDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The W.N. Selig CompanyProduction Company: The W.N. Selig CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot early May 1898 / premiered 16 May 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of Selig's first productions. Shot at Camp Tanner near Springfield, Illinois.

International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

Spanish Ball GameDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released possibly February 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: possibly a baseball film. Survivla status unknown.

S.S. “Coptic”Director: possibly James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing Company

Production Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 21 April 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

S.S. “Coptic” CoalingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 June 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

S.S. “Coptic” Lying ToDirector: possibly James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 21 April 1898Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

S.S. “Coptic” Running Against the StormDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James A. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 21 April 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

S.S. “Coptic” Running Before a GaleDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 December 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Station du chemin de fer de TokyoDirector: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer: Tsunekichi ShibataEditor:

Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 985.

The StockbrokerDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

A Street ArabDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 21 April 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (65 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:

Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

A Study in Facial ExpressionDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComadyNotes: Survivla status unknown

Tearing Down the Spanish FlagDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly American Vita graph CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 21 April possibly 1897 / possibly released 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Possibly shot in New York, New York. Film is possibly the same as “Raising Old

Glory Over Morro Castle” (1899) Survival status unknown.

La tentation de Saint-AntoineDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists. Frazer reel number 169.

10th U.S. Infantry Disembarking from CarsDirector: possibly William PaleyProducer: Cinematographer: possibly William PaleyEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright: 20 May 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 1 May 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (possibly 100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. Survival status unknown.

10th U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Leaving CarsDirector: William PaleyProducer:Cinematographer: William PaleyEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 20 May 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 1 May 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film

archive.

The Three MacsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released May 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Three MacsGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

[Tokyo's Ginza District]Director: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: JapanMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first Japanese produced films. Film is presumed lost.

Tommy Atkins in the ParkDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (80 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

Trained Cavalry HorsesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 June 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Trick BicyclistsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Haydon & UrryStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): released April 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (70 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: The Brothers HenryGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Troopers – Contiuation ofDirector: Producer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

A Tug in a Heavy SeaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: possibly ActualityNotes: Print exists

Turkish Dance, Ella LolaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 October 1898 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (47 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Ella LolaGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

Twelve Months AfterDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Haydon & UrryStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Intended to be shown after “The Bride's First Night” (1898). Survival status

unknown.

Two Naughty Boys Sprinkling the SpoonsDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:

Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (66 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Alan Williamson, Colin WilliamsonGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Two Naughty Boys Teasing the CobblerDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (68 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Alan Williamson, Colin WilliamsonGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Two Naughty Boys Upsetting the SpoonsDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Alan Williamson, Colin WilliamsonGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Two Tipsy Fellows in a BoatDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Cinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (53 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Ungallant LoverDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Warwick Trading CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released August 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival Status unknown

The Unseen World: Stilton CheeseDirector: Martin DuncanProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Warwick Trading CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[Untitled Comedy]Director: Walter D. WelfordProducer: Walter D. WelfordCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer: Walter D. WelfordCopyright:Date (production/release): released March 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Mrs. WelfordGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

U.S. Cavalry Supplies Unloading at Tampa, FloridaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 May 1898 Merican Mutoscope CompnayDate (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive

The Vanishing LadyDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 December 1898Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Albert E. SmithGenre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[View of Guanabara Bay]Director: Alfonso SegretoProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 19 July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: BrazilMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: The first Brazilian produced film. Aurvival status unknown.

The Village BlacksmithDirector: Arthur CooperProducer: Brit AcresCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Brit AcresStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)

Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Vistite sous-marine du MaineDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre:Notes: Print exists

V.R.C. Winter MeetingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 9 July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Vystavní Párkar a Lepic PlakátuDirector: Jan KrízeneckyProducer: Jan Krízenecky and Josef PokornyCinematographer: Jan KrízeneckyEditor:Distributor:

Production Company: Jan Krízenecky and Josef PokornyStudio:Writer: Josef Sváb-MalostranskyCopyright:Date (production/release): released 1 July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: CzechoslovakiaMain Actors: Josef Sváb-Malostransky [as the sausage vendor], Ferdinand Gyra [as sticker]Genre: ComedyNotes: One of the first Czechoslovakian produced films. Survival status unknown.

Washing the SweepDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Williamson Kinematograph CompanyProduction Company: Williamson Kinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Marie Mayhew [as the maid]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Waves and SprayDirector: G.A. SmithProducer: G.A. SmithCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

When the Cat's AwayDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. Paul Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Winning the GlovesDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Williamson Kinematograph CompanyProduction Company: Williamson Kinematograph CompanyStudio:Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): released July 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: James WilliamsonGenre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

1899

Admiral Dewey at State House, Boston, Mass.Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James A. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 25 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 14 October 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George Dewey, Governor Roger WolcottGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Boston, MA. The film was also offered in a 100 foot length. A print exists in

the Library of Congress film archive.

Admiral Dewey Landing at GibraltarDirector: possibly James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 27 September 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot about 5 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (82 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George DeweyGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive

Admiral Dewey Leading Land ParadeDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompnayStudio:Writer:Copyright: 5 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 30 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (200 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George Dewey, Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Nelson Appelton Miles,

Admiral William Thomas Sampson, Winfield Scott SchleyGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Also available in 100 foot length. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade, no. 2Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 30 September 1899Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (200 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George Dewey, Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Nelson Appleton Miles,

Admiral William Thomas Sampson, Winfield Scott SchleyGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in New York, New York.Film available in 100 foot length. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

Admiral Dewey on the Deck of FlagshipDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: probably James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): shot ca. 27-29 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (84 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George Dewey, William Thomas SampsonGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot near Staten Island, New York. Surviving footage exists in the Library of

Congress film archive.

Admiral Dewey on the Deck of Flagship (2)Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot ca. 27-29 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (16 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George Dewey, William Thomas SampsonGenre: DocumentaryNotes: shot on Staten Island, New York. Surviving footage exist in the Library of Congress

film archive.

Admiral Dewey Passing Catholic Club StandDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 5 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 30 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George DeweyGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in New York, New York. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Admiral Dewey Receiving the Washington and New York CommitteesDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 2 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 28 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (85 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George Dewey, Nelson Appleton Miles, William Thomas Sampson,

Octavian L. PrudenGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in New York, New York. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Admiral Dewey Taking Leave of Washington Committee on the U.S. Cruiser “Olympia”Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 2 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot on 28 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm shperical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (84 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Admiral George Dewey, Nelson Appleton Miles, Admiral William Thomas

Sampson, Octavius L. PrudenGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in New York harbor. Also available in 75 foot length. Print exists in the Library

of Congress film archive.

Advance of Kansas Volunteers at CalcoonDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 5 June 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot may 1899Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (77 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Members of the New Jersey National GuardGenre: ActualityNotes: shot in the Orange Mountains, New Jersey. Print exists in the Library of Congress

film archive.

L'affaire Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Affair)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Production Company: Méliès Star-filmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (650 feet)Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

After the Race – Yachts Returning to AnchorageDirector: J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: J Stuart Blackton or Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot between 3-16 October 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot off Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

American Cup RaceDirector: Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: probably Edison Manufacturing CompnayProduction Company: probably Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: AcualityNotes: Survival status unknown

America's Cup #1Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 October 1899 possibly Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release):1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

America's Cup #2Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 October 1899 possibly Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Arabian Gun TwirlerDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 20 March 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): possibly shot May 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (45 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Hadji L. CheriffGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Probably shot in the Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of

Congress film archive. Musser control number 672.

The Artist's DreamDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 February 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released April 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (31 or 172 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly trick film Notes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

The Artist's DreamDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): shot 14 July 1899 / released July 1899Camera/Projector: probably 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (38 or 218 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archives.

Astor Battery on ParadeDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: J. Stuart Blackton or Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 27 January 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot January 1899 / released 23 January 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (90 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Union Square in New York, New York. Print Exists in the Library of

Congress film archive. Musser control number 650. MAVIS control number 45635.

The Astor Tramp (aka Astor Unwelcome Tramp Visitor)Director: James WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 27 November 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot on a day between June to September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot on an outdoor stage. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive. Musser

control number 725.

Attempt to Escape That Led to MisfortuneDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Raymond AckermanEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 13 July 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 9 July 1899Camera/Projector: probably 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Automobile ParadeDirector: possibly William C. PaleyProducer:Cinematographer: possibly William C. PaleyEditor:Distributor:Production Company: William C. PaleyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists

The Babies' QuarrelDirector: possibly F.S. ArmitageProducer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 10 April 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph Company

Date (production/release): probably shot 24 July 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Baby Lund and Her PetsDirector: possibly F.S. ArmitageProducer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 June 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably shot on 6 July 1899Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm sperical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Detroit, Michgan. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Baby Lund and Her PetsDirector: F.S. ArmitageProducer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 July 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 6 July 1899Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Detroit, Michigan. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Baby's ToothDirector: possibly F.S. Armitage

Producer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 2 July 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 14 July 1899Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Notes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Bad (K)nightDirector: possibly F.S. ArmitageProducer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 November 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): probably shot 9 June 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Battle of Jefferies and Sharkey for Championship of the WorldDirector: James H. White and Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 4 November 1899 possibly Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 3 November 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:

Country: United StatesMain Actors: Jim Jeffries, Tom SharkeyGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot at the event with a smuggled camera. Print exists.

Bicycle Trick Riding, no. 2Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 March 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 137:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Mr. NeidertGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Prints exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

The Black Cat and the Dinner for TwoDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

The Butcher and the TrampDirector: C. Goodwin NortonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company: C. Goodwin NortonStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1899 (year of release is uncertain)Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Casey at the Bat; or, The Fate of a “Rotten Umpire”Director: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 April 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot April 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: From the peom “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive. Musser control number 677.

Cendrillon (Cinderella)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Compagnie Genérala des

Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes

Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: ~6 minutes (shot to be 2000 feet, edited by Pathé to 900 feet)Country: France

Main Actors: Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, Jeanne d'Alcy, Barral, Carmely, DepeyrouGenre: Drama, FantasyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Chanteuse japonaiseDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabeiel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1026.

Le Christ marchant sur les eaux (Christ Walking on Water)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

CléopatreDirector: Georges MélièsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-Film

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: ~2 minutesCountry: FranceMain Actors: Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'AlcyGenre:Notes: Print discovered in France in 2005

“Columbia” Winning the CupDirector: possibly Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 October 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released October 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (65 or 100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Co. “L” Thirty-Third Infantry Going to Firing LineDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Concours d'automobiles fleuries (départ)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 12 June 1899Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot in Paris, France. Lumière film number 1008. Survival status unknown

The Corset ModelDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 June 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released June 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (48 or 288 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Survival status unknown.

Cripple Creek Bar-Room SceneDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio: Edison Black MariaWriter:Copyright: 22 April 1899 Thomas A. Edison

Date (production/release): possibly March to mid-April 1899Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Drama, WesternNotes: Possibly the first motion picture set in the American old west. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive. Musser control number 680.

La danse du feu (The Pillar of Fire)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: From the novel “She” by H. Rider Haggard. Frazer reel number 188. Print exists in

the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

Danse japonais: I. KapporeDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1021.

The Demon BarberDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Diving Through Paper ScreensDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm shperical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Fête de Paris 1899: Concours d'automobiles fleuriesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 1009.

Filipinos Retreat from TrenchesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 5 June 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released June 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50, 70 or 75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Print exists

The Fisherman's MishapDirector: Alfred CollinsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: L. Gaumont and CompanyProduction Company: L. Gaumont and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Mike SavageGenre: ComedyNotes: Gaumont's first British comedy

The Fitzsimmons-Jefferies FightDirector: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 9 June 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Jim Jefferies, Bob FitzsimmonsGenre: Documentary, Sprots, Boxing Notes: Survival status unknown

Fun in Training CampDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 7 June 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Jim JefferiesGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Gordon HighlandersDirector: William WalkerProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1

formatfps:Runtime: (58 inches)

Country: ScotlandMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Scottish Screen Archive of the National Library of Scotland film

archive.

Harry Tate GrimacesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Warwick Trading CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Harry TateGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Film is presumed lost

Harry Tate ImpersonationsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Warwick Trading CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Harry TateGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Film is presumed lost

[Henley Regatta]Director: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:

Distributor:Production Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

[Henley Regatta]Director: James A. WilliamsonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Williamson FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm psherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

L'histoire d'un crime (The History of a Crime)Director: Georges MélièsProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:

Notes: Survival status unknown

Inazuma Goto Hobaku no BaDirector: Shiro AsanoProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: JapanMain Actors: Umpei YokoyamaGenre:Notes: Survivla status unknown

Japonaise Faisant sa toiletteDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1027.

Jefferies-Sharkey Contest (aka The Jefferies-Sharkey Fight)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 10, 11, 13 and 15 November 1899Date (production/release): shot 3 November 1899Camera/Projector: possibly Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (5575 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Jim Jefferies, Tom SharkeyGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot at the Coney Island Athletic Club. Possibly the first motion picture to be shot

indoors under artificail light. G.W. Bitzer was one of the electrical technicians. Survival status unknown.

Jefferies Skipping RopeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Jim Jefferies Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Jefferies Throwing Medicine BallDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 7 June 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Jim Jefferies Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

King JohnDirector: William K.L. Dickson and Walter Pfeffer DandoProducer:Cinematographer: William K.L. DicksonEditor:Distributor:Production Company: British Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released September 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Herbert Beerbohm Tree [as King John], Dora Senior [as Prince Henry], F.M.

Paget [as Robert Bigot], James Fisher [ as Earl of Pambroke]Genre: Drama, HistoricalNotes: From the play “The Life and Death of King John” by Willaim Shakespeare. Print

exists in the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute.

The Kiss in the TunnelDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: G.A. SmithStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (40 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: G.A. SmithGenre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

The Kiss in the Tunnel (aka Cuddling in the Dark)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Riley Brothers-Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (78 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: A copy-cat version of G.A. Smith's “The Kiss in the Tunnel” (1899). Survival status

unknown.

Love and WarDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: James H. WhiteStudio:Writer:Copyright: 28 November 1899 James H. WhiteDate (production/release): shot ca. June-September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (240 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Composed of five scenes, each shot in a different place. Print exists in the Library of

Congress film archive. MAVIS control number 47136.

Le Miroir de CagliostroDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899 / released in th U.S. January 1903Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (19.81 meters)Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Momiji-gari (Maple Viewing)Director: Tsunekichi ShibataProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Osaka NakazaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1898Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: JapanMain Actors: Danjuro Ichikawa (“Danjuro IX”), Kikugoro Onoe (“Kikugoro V”)Genre: Perfomance, KabukiNotes: The first Japan fiction film. Japans oldest surviving motion picture. Print exists.

MotoristDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly Paul 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (190 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Comedy, FantasyNotes: Print exists

Moulin à homme pour l'arrosage des rizièresDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1030.

The Musical EccentricDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Warwick Trading CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Will EvansGenre: ComedyNotes: Film is presumed lost.

New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn BridgeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 September 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

New Brooklyn to New York vis Brooklyn Bridge, No. 1Director: Producer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 September 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 2Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released Sept 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

140th Street Curve, New York, Elevated RailwayDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 April 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): possibly shot in March to mid-April 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:

Genre: ActualityNotes: Also sold in a 75 foot length. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Musser control number 681.

Palmer-McGovern FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: American Sportagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 12 September 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Thomas 'Pedlar' Palmer, Terry McGovernGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Shot in Tuckahoe, New York. Survival status unknown

Panoramic View of Brooklyn BridgeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 4 February 1899 possibly American Vitagraph Company or thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Panoramic View of Niagara Falls in Winter (aka Niagara Falls, Winter)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing Company

Studio:Writer:Copyright: 1903 (as Niagara Falls, Winter) Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Panoramic View of the White Pass RailroadDirector: possibly Robert K. BonineProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Robert K. BonineEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright: 6 May 1901 possibly Thomas A. Edison or Edison Manufacturing CompanyDate (production/release): shot 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

The Passion FilmsDirector: Joseph H. PerryProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Joseph H. PerryEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Salvation Army Limelight Department, MelbourneStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: Drama, Historical, BiblicalNotes: Series of 13 films. Survival status unknown

La petite fille et son chatDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1

formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: Madleleine KoehlerGenre: ViewNotes: Shot at Demeure Koehler, 29 rue Guilloud, Monplasir in Lyon, France. Print exists

Lumière film number 1100.

Poker at Dawson CityDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 17 February 1899 Edison Manufacturing CompanyDate (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Print exeists in the library on Congress film archive.

Presentation of Loving Cup at City Hall Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 29 September 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

PrinsengrachtDirector: Emile LausteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Dutch Biograph &

Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (2 feet 8 inches)Country: NetherlandsMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the EYE Film Instituut Nederland.

Prize FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 14 October 1902Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: UnitedStatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

A Quiet SmokeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot July 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Raising Old Glory Over Morro CastleDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 4 February 1899 possibly Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Set design by J. Stuart Blackton. Shot on the roof of Vitagraph offices at 140 Nassau

Street in New York, New York. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Récolte du rizDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1029.

Reproduction of the Corbett and Jefferies FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 17 November 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (3450 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: This film was produced before the actual fight and showed a Corbett win. Survival

status unknown.

Reproduction of the Fitzsimmons-Jefferies Fight in Eleven Rounds Showing the Knock OutDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 June 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Copyrighted only three days after the actual fight. Survival status unknown.

Reproduction of the Jefferies and Corbett FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 17 November 1899 and 21 April 1900Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was produced before the actual event and shows a Jefferies win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of the Jefferies and Ruhlin FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 17 November 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was produced before the actual fight and shows a Jefferies win. Survival status

unknown

Reproduction of the Jefferies and Sharkey FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 9 September 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (3750 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was shot before the actual fight and shows a Jefferies win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of the Kid McCoy and Peter Maher FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 November 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was shot before the actual fight and shows a McCoy win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of the Pedlar Palmer and Terry McGovern FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 8 September 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was shot before the actual fight showing a Palmer win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of the Peter Maher and Kid McCoy FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio: Writer:Copyright: 21 November 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was shot before the actual match and shows a Maher win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of the Ruhlin and Jefferies FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 17 November 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was shot before the actual fight and shows a Ruhlin win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of the Sharkey and Jefferies FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 9 September 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was shot before the actual fight and shows a Sharkey win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of the Terry McGovern and Pedlar Palmer FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 8 September 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Film was shot before the actual fight and shows a McGovern win. Survival status

unknown.

Reproduction of Windsor Hotel FireDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly American Vitagraph Company or Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot March 1899Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Retour des coursesDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1028.

2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry – ParadeDirector: James H. White Producer:Cinematographer: James H. White Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 November 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 30 October 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (200 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot in Quebec, Canada. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Shamrock I in the Americas Cup Race]Director: Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Simon the CellarerDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Philipp WolffStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: The film was intended to be shown while a performer sang the title song. Survivla

status unknown.

Strange Adventure of New York DrummerDirector: Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 17 June 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release):Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Tenderloin at NightDirector:

Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Three AcrobatsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 20 March 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Perfomance, Comedy, VaudvilleNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

The Tramp's DreamDirector: possibly James F. Frawley and Jacob Blair SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot fall 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:

Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot on the rooftop of the Lubin offices, 921 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

A Trip to the MoonDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Siegmund LubinProduction Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Possibly the pirated copy of Méliès film “A Trip to the

Moon” (1902), and the production date is wrong.

Upside-Down; or, The Human FliesDirector: possibly Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

A Visit to the SpiritualistDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:

Cinematographer: Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart BlacktonEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot December 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ComedyNotes: Shot on Vitagraph rooftop. Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Willie's First SmokeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 4 February 1899Date (production/release): 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[The Wrestlers]Director: Harishchandra S. BhatvadekarProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot November 1899Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: India

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: The first Indian produced film. Survival status unknown.

A (W)ringing Good JokeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): possibly released March 1899Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown. Biograph film number 884.

A Wringing Good JokeDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 22 April 1899 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): probably shot March to April 1899Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot at Edison Blakc Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

1900

Accidents Will HappenDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur Marvin

Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 February 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 28 August 1900Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm sperical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: TrickNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive

The Adventures of Happy HooliganDirector: J. Stuart BlacktonProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer: possibly J. Stuart BlacktonDate (production/release):Copyright:Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Based on the comic strip “Happy Hooligan” by Fredrick Opper. Survival status

unknown.

Aguinaldo's NavyDirector: C. Fred Ackerman or Raymond AckermanProducer:Cinematographer: C. Fred Ackerman or Raymond AckermanEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 April 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot on 9 May 1900Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at the Pasig River near Manila, Philippines. Print exists in the Library of

Congress film archives.

Algy the Piccadilly JohnnyDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Vesta TilleyGenre: PerformanceNotes: Possibly used the Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival

status unknown.

Allabad; the Arabian WizardDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 November 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 26 July 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

An Animated LuncheonDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:

Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Date (production/release): likely shot in February 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Notes: Also available in 60 foot length. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Animation Cartoon “Wiping Something Off the Slate”Director: Cecil M. HepworthProducer: Cecil M. HepworthCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: AnimationNotes: Survival status unknown

Army Life; or, How Soldiers are MadeDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released 18 September 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: “Joining Army” (160 feet), “Work and Play at the Depot” (80 feet), “A Lark in

Camp” (60 feet), “Leaving the Army” (60 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Film is presumed lost. Print exists of “Mounted Infantry” episode. Possibly as many

as twenty short films shot as part of a live presentaion.

Around the Flip-Flap RailroadDirector: F.S. ArmitageProducer: Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 April 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 18 September 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Coney Island, New york. Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Arrest of a ShoplifterDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 September 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 16 July 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Arrival of Train at Muskoks WharfDirector: G.W. BitzerProducer:Cinematographer: G.W. BitzerEditor:Distributor: Americam Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: Americam Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 6 March 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 13 August 1900Camera/Projector: probaly Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at Lake Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

Artillery FiringDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Notes: Survival status unknown

An Artist's DreamDirector: Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 21 March 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released March 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (60, 65 or 75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive. Musser control number 795.

The Art of “Making Up”Director: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 18 April 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 24 May 1900 / released May 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (65 or 377 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Kathryn OstermanGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

“Art Studies”Director: Producer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 6 March 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release):shot 29 November 1900 / released November 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (32 or 178 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

As Seen Through the TelescopeDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900

Camera/Projector: probably 35mm sperical formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

Attack on a Chinese Mission – Bluejackets to the RescueDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Williamson FilmsStudio:Writer: James WilliamsonCopyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: probably 35 mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (230 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Florence Williamson, Mr. Lepard, Mr. JamesGenre: DramaNotes: Print exists

Aunt Jane's Experience with Tobasco SauceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: Americam Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: Americam Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 30 January 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot or released on 9 November 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Australian Navy Contingent Departing Melbourne for the Boxer Rebellion]Director: Producer:

Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Automobile ParadeDirector: William C. PaleyProducer:Cinematographer: William C. PaleyEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: William C. PaleyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 6 February 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot 4 November 1899 / released 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (128 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Also available in a 50 foot length. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive. Musser control number 767.

The Battle of Mt. ArayatDirector: possibly C. Fred Ackerman or Raymond AckermanProducer:Cinematographer: possibly C. Fred Ackerman or Raymond AckermanEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot January 1900 / released March 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Biograph 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:

Country: United StatesMain Actors: Andrew Sheridan Burt, Fredrick D. GrantGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in the Philippines

Beheading a Chinese PrisonerDirector: possibly James F. Frawley and Jacob Blair SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): probably in July or August 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Shot on the rooftop of the Lubin offices. Print exists in the International Museum of

Photography and Film at George Eastman House.

The Beggar's DeceitDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Studio:Writer:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Notes:

Birds-Eye View of Dock Front, GalvestonDirector: possibly Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:

Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot ca. 11-19 September 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. Part of the Galveston Cyclone series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

The Biter Bit (aka A Joke on the Gardener)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

The Blind BoyDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: G.H. ChirgwinGenre: PerfomanceNotes: possibly Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival status

unknown.

Boat Race on the Harlem RiverDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Bombarding and Capturing the Taku FortsDirector: James F. Frawley and Jacob Blair SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot July or August 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot in Lubin's rooftop studio. Survival status unknown.

A bord du “Tonkin”: le saut à la cordeDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot October 1899 / released 14 April 1900

Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1131.

Broadway PanoramaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitograph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Bryan at HomeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Selig Polyscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: probably 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: possibly William Jennings BryanNotes: Survival status unknown

Burlesque Attack on a Settler's CabinDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:

Distributor: Warwick Trading CompanyProduction Company: Warwick Trading CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Dan Leno, Herbert Campbell, Joe ElvinGenre: ComedyNotes: Film is presumed lost.

Burning of the Standard Oil Co.'s Tanks, Bayonne, N.J.Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: possibly Edison

Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 12 July 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

A Career of CrimeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 November 1900 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released June 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (823 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:

Genre: DramaNotes: Released in 5 parts. Print exists.

Charge of Boer CavalryDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: Date (production/release): probably shot 15-24 April 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly dramaNotes: 1st of two surviving takes. Probably shot in the Orange Mountains outside Weat

Orange, New Jersey. Print survives in the Library of Congress film archive.

Charge of Boer CavalryDirector: James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably shot 15-24

April 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly dramaNotes: 2nd of two surviving takes. Probably shot in the Orange Mountains outside Weat

Orange, New Jersey. Print survives in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Chasles]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Clément-Maurice GratiouletStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: J. ChaslesGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack was presented

on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Chicago Fire RunDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Seloig Polyscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900 (release year uncertain)Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown.

Chicago Police ParadeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Selig Polyscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1900 (release year uncertain)Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes:

Chinese Massacring ChristiansDirector: James F. Frawley and Jacob Blair SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot July or August 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Shot on the rooftop of the Lubin offices. Print exists

Le CidDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Clément-Maurice GratiouletStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm psherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: ? ZambelliGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack was presented

on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

The Clown and the AlchemistDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 November 1900Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Congress of NationsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: possibly Edwin S. Porter and

James H. WhiteEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: possibly The Vitagraph

Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 November 1900 Thomas A.

EdisonDate (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 or 115 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Albert Smith [as the magician]Genre: Perfomance-TableauNotes: Print exists

A Convict's PunishmentDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope Company

Studio:Writer:Copyright: 7 February 1903 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (170 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Also sold in a 30 foot length. Survival status unknown.

Cook County Democracy ParadeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Selig Polyscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

The Cornfields QuartettDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: probably Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: probably The Cornfields QuartetteGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival status unknown.

[Cossira]Director: Producer: Clèment-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: ? Cossira (Cossira was a star of the Paris Opéra)Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Course de taureaux (aka Spanish Bullfight)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

Courses d'ensemble des régates (rameurs assis)Director: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival stautus unknown. Lumière film number 1288.

Cyrano de BergeracDirector: Coquenin AinéProducer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: after 1907 distributed by Urban

Eclipse. Distributed in 1908 in United States by Kleine Optical Company without soundtrack.

Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (140 feet)Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack was presented

on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Print exists.

Danseuses combodgiennes du roi Norodom, IIDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:

Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1294.

Dewey ArchDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph Company or The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Dewey ParadeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Selig Polyscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

Don JuanDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice Gratioulet Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Victor MaurelGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

The Downward PathDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 11 November 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released May 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (824 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Released in 5 parts. Print exists

Le deul d'HamletDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (174 feet)Country: FranceMain Actors: Sarah Bernhardt [ as Hamlet], Pierre Magnier [as Laertes]Genre: Drama, HistoricalNotes: From the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-

cylinder sound cylinder (sound effects only, no speech). Print exists in the Filmmuseum Berlin Deutsch Kinemathek film archive. A print may exist in the

Cinémathèque Françaises film archive.

A Dull RazorDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 28 February 1900 Thomas A.

EdisonDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (45 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

The Eccentric DancerDirector: Cecil HepworthProducer: Cecil HepworthCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Embarquement d'un bouf à bord d'un navireDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists. Lumière fim number 1286.

The Enchanted DrawingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 November 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): probably shot between September and early November 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: J. Stuart BlacktonGenre: ComedyNotes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

L'enfant prodigueDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Félicia MalletGenre: Perfomance, Dance, BalletNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack was presented

on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Enfants annamites ramassant des sapèques devant la pagode des damesDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 1274.

Enfants au bond de la mer (aka The Children's Seaside Frolic)Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown.

Enfants aux jouets (aka Children at Play)Director: Louis Lumière and Auguste LumièreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Escape from Sing SingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 February 1900 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released June 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (27 or 151 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Survival status unknown

Explosion of a Motor CarDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Hepworth Film

Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

L'Exposition de 1900Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

FalstaffDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Victor MaurelGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Possibly from the opera “Falstaff” by Giuseppe Verdi. Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-

on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Faust and MargueriteDirector: possibly Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 28 February 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released February 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (60 or 65 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: From the opera “Faust” by Charles Gounod. Prints exist in the Library of Congress

film archive.

Fifteenth Infantry, U.S.A.Director: possibly F.S. ArmitageProducer:Cinematographer: F.S. ArmitageEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released July 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

La fille du régimentDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: possibly MauriceStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Fire Engines at WorkDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Selig Polyscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Fools ParadeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Selig Polyscope CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900 (year uncertain)Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Footit chocolatDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: George Footit [as Footit], Raphael Padilla [as Chocolat]Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Print exists.

Fumerie d'opiumDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists. Lumière film number 1270.

The Gans-McGovern FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Selig Polyscope CompanyProduction Company: The Selig Polyscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot or released

possibly 13 December 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Joe Gans, Terry McGovern, George Silver [referee], Joe Humphries

[announcer]Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Print exists

The Gator and the PickaninnyDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Grandma's Reading GlassDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: L. Gaumont and CompanyProduction Company: G.A.S. FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

Great Glove FightDirector: James WilliamsonProducer: James WilliamsonCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: possibly Williamson Kinematography CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Harry Thompson's ImitationsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: possibly American Vitagraph Company or The Vita Graph Company

of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Harry Thompson Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Survival status unknown

Hooligan and the Summer BoardersDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Hooligan Assists the MagicianDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 November 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Hooligan at the SeashoreDirector:

Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Hooligan Causes a SensationDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Hooligan Has Trouble with the CookDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)

Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Hooligan in Central ParkDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Hooligan's Narrow EscapeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Hooligan Takes his Annual BathDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing Company

Production Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: J. Stuart Blackton [as Happy Hooligan]Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

How It Feels to Be Run OverDirector: Cecil M. HepworthProducer: Cecil M. Hepworth Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

How They Rob a Man in ChicagoDirector: Wallace McCutcheonProducer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph

CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope &

Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 10 April 1902 American Mutoscope &

Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 24 April 1900 / released April 1900Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (28, 31 or 165 feet)

Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot on the Biograph studio rooftop at 841 Broadway in New York, New York. Print

exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Inquisitive ClerksDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph Company or The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

[Javanese Dance]Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Cléo de MerodeGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Jeanne d'ArcDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Méliès Star-FilmsStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: Bleuette Bernon [as Jeanne d'Arc], Georges Méliès [as Jacques d'Arc], Jeanne d'Alcy

[as Isabelle Romée]Notes: Print exists

Jefferies vs. Corbett; or, Representation of Jefferies-Corbett FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

A Jersey SkeeterDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

[Jules Moy]Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm shperical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Jules MoyGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound cylinder. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Kitty MahoneDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Statndard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Lil HawthorneGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Possibly Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Possibly same as “Kitty

Malone” (1901). Survival status unknown.

KobelkoffDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (2 feet 11 inches)Country: FranceMain Actors: Nikolai KobelkoffGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Print exists in the Lobster Films archive.

La KorriganeDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Rosita Mauri, Violat, Mademoiselles ManteGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Cast includes members of

the Paris Opéra. Soundtrack presented on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a FenceDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

The Lambeth WalkDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Alec HurleyGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Possibly Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival status

unknown.

Launching a Stranded Schooner from the DocksDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: possibly Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing

CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. A film in the Galveston Cyclone series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

Leaping DogsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm Spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Let Me Dream AgainDirector: G.A. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical

formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

Life Motion Photographs of the Fitzsimmons and Ruhlin FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 10 August 1900 Siegmund LubinDate (production/release): shot 10 August 1900 / released August 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (1000 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Bob Fitzsimmons, Gus RuhlinGenre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Possibly a recreation done with actors. Survival status unknown.

Little MischiefDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1900Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (45 or 50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Little Tich et ses “Big Boots”Director: Alice Guy Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Little Tich (Herry Relph)Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Print exists.

Louisiana LouDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:

Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): relaesed November 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Vesta TilleyGenre: PerformanceNotes: Possibly Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival status

unknown.

[Louis Maurel]Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Louis MaurelGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinder. Survival status unknown.

Ma CousineDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Madame Réjane (Gabrielle-Charlotte Réjane)Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Possibly Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack

presented on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Madame Sans-Gêne (aka Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne)Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Madame Réjane (Gabrielle-Charlotte Réjane)Genre: PerfomanceNotes: Possibly Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack

presented on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

The MagicianDirector: possibly Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 28 February 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released February 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Trick film Notes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Mariette Sully]Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Mariette SullyGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented om

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

[Mason and Forbes]Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: ? Mason, ? ForbesGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Match Between Earnest Roeber and August FaustDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly The Vitagraph Company of America or Edison Manufacturing

CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Earnest Roeber, August Faust

Genre: Documentary, Sports, WrestlingNotes: Survival status unknown

Maude's Naughty Little Brother Director: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 November 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (90 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

The Midnight SonDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: Vesta TilleyGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Possibly Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival status

unknown.

[Mily Meyer]Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: Mily MeyerGenre: Perfomance, SongNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Mysterious CafeDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: American Vitagraph Company or

The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: possibly ComedyNotes: Print exists

The Mystic SwingDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: possibly Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: possibly Edison Manufacturing Company or The Selig Polyscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 21 March 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released March 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (60 feet)Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Print survives in the Library of Congress film archive.

New Black Diamond Express Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 26 May 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Oberammergau Street Scene]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

OceanicDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing Company Production Company: The Vitagraph Company of America

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

On a Runaway Motor-Car Through Piccadilly CircusDirector: Robert W. PaulProducer: Robert W. PaulCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Robert W. PaulStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Panorama of Broad Street, RichmondDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 1900 possibly Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Panorama of East GalvestonDirector: possibly Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900Date (production/release): shot in September 1900 / released September 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 or 110 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galevston, Texas. A film in the Galveston Cyclone series. Survival status

unknown.

Panorama of Galveston Power HouseDirector: possibly Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1900 / released September 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. A film in the Galveston Cyclone series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

Panorama of Orphans' Home, GalvestonDirector: possibly Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1900 /

released September 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. A film in the Galveston Cyclone series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

Panorama of the Paris ExhibitionDirector: Cecil M. Hepworth Producer: Cecil M. Hepworth Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Panorama of Tremont Hotel, GalvestonDirector: possibly Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. A film in the Galveston Cyclone series. Survival status

unknown.

Panorama of Wreckage on Water Front, GalvestonDirector: possibly Albert E. SmithProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Albert E. SmithEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1900Camera/Projector:fps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. A film in the Galveston Cyclone series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

Panoramic View of the Champs ElyseesDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 August 1900 Thomas A. Edison Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

[Paris Exposition, 1900]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release):Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House.

Passage en chaises à porteurs au col des Nuages (Annam)Director: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:

Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1298.

Polo GameDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: The Vitagraph Compnay of America or Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

[Port Fairy Fishing Fleet Putting to Sea]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Les précieuses ridiculesDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (possibly 180 feet)Country: FranceMain Actors: Coquelin AinéGenre: PerfomanceNotes: From a play by Molière. Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system.

Soundtrack presented on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Prisoner in the Chinese Pillory in the Streets of Tien Tsin (aka In the Pillory)Director: James F. Frawley and Jacob Blair SmithProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Lubin Manufacturing CompanyStudio: Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot July or August 1900 / released August 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (75 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Shot on the rooftop of the Lubin offices. Survival status unknown.

Prize Fight Between John Bull and President KrugerDirector: Producer: John Sloane BarnesCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:

Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime: (200 feet)Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Promenade du dragon à Cholon, IDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 17 January 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1280.

Red Cross Ambulance on BattlefieldDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): probably shot 15-24 April

1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DramaNotes: Probably shot in the Orange Mountains outside West Orange, New Jersey. Print exists

in the Library of Congress film archive.

[Reichemberg]Director: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Mademoiselle ReichembergGenre: PerfomanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

[Religious Procession]Director: Mirza Ebrahim KhanProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: IranMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: One of the first Iranian produced films. Kahn was the court photographer to the Shah

Mozaffareddin. Survival status unknown.

Reproduction of the Corbett and McCoy FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:

Copyright: 28 August 1900Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Reproduction of the Fitzsimmons and Sharkey FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 28 August 1900Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Reproduction of the McGovern and Dixon FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 8 January 1900Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Reproduction of the Sharkey and Fitzsimmons FightDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Siegmund LubinStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 March 1900Date (production/release) 1900:Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Documentary, Sports, BoxingNotes: Survival status unknown

Roeber Wrestling MatchDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly The Vitagraph Company of AmericaProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: Earnest RoeberGenre: Documentary, Sports, WrestlingNotes: Survival status unknown

Roméo et JulietteDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900

Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: PerfomanceNotes: From the opera “Roméo et Juliette” by Gounod. Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-

cylinder sound system. Soundtrack presented on Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Rough SeaDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Bamforth and CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

Sally in Our AlleyDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors: American Comedy FourGenre: PerfomanceNotes: possibly Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival status

unknown.

Scene in the Swiss Village at Paris ExpositionDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 29 August 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists

[Scenes Around the Warrnambool Coast of Victoria]Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unknown

Scenes of the Wreckage from the WaterfrontDirector: possibly Jacob Blair SmithProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Jacob Blair SmithEditor:Distributor: Lubin Manufacturing Company Production Company: Lubin Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot September 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps: Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. Print survives in the International Museum of Photography

and Film at George Eastman House.

Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead BodiesDirector: J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith

Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 September 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot September 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: Shot in Galveston, Texas. A film in the Galveston Cyclone series. Print exists in the

Library of Congress film archive.

[Shah Mozaffareddin's Private Zoo]Director: Mizra Ebriham KahnProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: IranMain Actors:Genre: DocumentaryNotes: One of the first Iranian produced films. Kahn was the court photographer for the

Shah. Survival status unknown.

Sherlock Holmes BaffledDirector: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: American Mutoscope CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 24 February 1903 American

Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): shot 26 April 1900 / released May 1900Camera/Projector: Probably Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 formatfps:Runtime: (47, 49 or 284 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Trick filmNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Smallest TrainDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: possibly American Vitagraph Company or The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:

Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Soldiers of the CrossDirector: Joseph H. PerryProducer:Cinematographer: Joseph H. PerryEditor:Distributor:Production Company: Salvation Army Limelight Department, MelbourneStudio:Writer: Herbert H. BoothCopyright:Date (production/release): premiered 13 September 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: AustraliaMain Actors: Harold Graham, John Jones, Beatrice Day, Orrie Perry, Reg Perry, Salvation

Army CadetsGenre: DramaNotes: Film is presumed lost. Presentation slides still exist.

Sousa Leading the BandDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing Company or The Vitagraph Company of

AmericaProduction Company: possibly American Vitagraph or The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: possibly John Philip SousaGenre: DocumentaryNotes: Survival status unknown

SpeedwayDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:

Editor:Distributor: possibly Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: possibly American Vitagraph or The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Spiritsme abracadabrant (aka The Up-to-Date Spiritualism)Director: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Méliès Star-FilmProduction Company: Méliès Star-Film Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country:Main Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre: Trick film Notes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House.

“Stop Thief!”Director: F.S. ArmitageProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 7 June 1902 American Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyDate (production/release): released December 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (24 or 148 feet)Country: United States

Main Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

A Storm at SeaDirector: possibly James H. WhiteProducer:Cinematographer: possibly Alfred C. AbadieEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

Company or James H. WhiteStudio: Writer:Copyright: 9 August 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): shot ca. 19-27 June 1900 / released August 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (100 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive.

Such a HeadacheDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing Company or The Vitagraph Company of AmericaProduction Company: American Vitagraph Company or The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

SylviaDirector: Producer: Clément-Maurice GratiouletCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:

Production Company:Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm spherical formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: ? ZambelliGenre: Perfomance, DanceNotes: Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. Soundtrack was presented

Lioretographe sound cylinders. Survival status unknown.

Transport des bois par redeauxDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer: Gabriel VeyreEditor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical 1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown. Lumière film number 1285.

Turn Out of the Fire BrigadeDirector: Walter GibbonsProducer: Walter GibbonsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Gibbons' Bio-TableauxStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released November 1900Camera/Projector: Possibly Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:

Notes: Phono-Bio-Tableaux sound-on-cylinder sound system. Survival status unknown.

Uncle Josh in a Spooky HotelDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors: possibly Charles 'Daddy' Manley [as Uncle Josh]Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Uncle Josh's NightmareDirector: Edwin S. PorterProducer:Cinematographer: Edwin S. PorterEditor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing

CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 21 March 1900 Thomas A. EdisonDate (production/release): released March 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (150 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors: Charles 'Daddy' Manley [as Uncle Josh]Genre: ComedyNotes: Shot in Edison Black Maria studio. Print exists in the Library of Congress film

archive.

La vengeance du gâte-sauceDirector: Georges MélièsProducer: Georges MélièsCinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly Méliès Star-FilmProduction Company: Méliès Star-FilmStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors: possibly Georges MélièsGenre: ComedyNotes: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman

House film archive.

View from an Engine Fron – Shilla Mill TunnelDirector: Cecil M. Hepworth Producer: Cecil M. Hepworth Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor:Production Company: Hepworth Film Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: possibly 35mm sphericalfps:Runtime:Country: United KingdomMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Survival status unknown

Le village de Namo: Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteursDirector: Gabriel VeyreProducer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Survival status unnown. Lumière film number 1296.

Vue prise d'une plate-forme mobile, IIDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Société LumièreProduction Company: Société LumièreStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): premiered 17 June

1900Camera/Projector: Cinématographe spherical

1.30:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: FranceMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Shot at the Exposition universelle in Paris, France. Survival status unknown. Lumière

film number 1156.

Washing DogsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing Company or The Vitagraph Company of AmericaProduction Company: American Vitagraph Company or The Vitagraph Company of America

Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: Actuality or ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

Watermelon Contest Director: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): released March 1900Camera/Projector: Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical

1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime: (50 feet)Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Survival status unknown

White Horse RapidsDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: Edison Manufacturing CompanyProduction Company: Edison Manufacturing CompanyStudio:Writer:Copyright: 4 April 1900 Edison Manufacturing CompanyDate (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ActualityNotes: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Who Said Chicken?Director: Producer:Cinematographer: Arthur MarvinEditor:Distributor: Americam Mutoscope & Biograph CompanyProduction Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company Studio:Writer:Copyright:Date (production/release): shot 18 July 1900 / possibly late July 1900Camera/Projector: possibly Biograph 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format or Standard 35mm

spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre: ComedyNotes: Print exists

Z the Clown and the AlchemistDirector: Producer:Cinematographer:Editor:Distributor: possibly The Vitagraph Company of AmericaProduction Company: The Vitagraph Company of AmericaStudio:Writer:Copyright: 16 November 1900Date (production/release): 1900Camera/Projector: Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 formatfps:Runtime:Country: United StatesMain Actors:Genre:Notes: Print exists

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Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company, “Progressive Silent Film List”, <http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/index.html>, 1999-2012

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the Ratgirl's Film Review, <http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-white-blechynden.html>