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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13mins
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(1910) American
B&W : One Reel
Directed by Otis Turner
Cast: Bebe Daniels [Dorothy], Hobart Bosworth [?] [the Wizard of Oz]?, Eugenie Besserer [?] [Aunt Em]?, Robert Z. Leonard [?] [tin woodsman]?, Winnifred Greenwood, Lillian Leighton, Olive Cox, Alvin Wyckoff, Marcia Moore, [?] Fred Woodward? [the mule]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Otis Turner and L. Frank Baum, from the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. / Released 24 March 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Followed by Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910). A nitrate print was recovered in 1983, and was donated to George Eastman House for preservation.
Drama: Fantasy.
Survival Status: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm nitrate positive].
Keywords: Authors: L. Frank Baum
Listing updated: 11 April 2006.
References: Blum-Silent p. 17.
Home Video: DVD.
Link: http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WonderfulWizardofOz1910.html
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Aarhusianerne paa Glatis (190?)
The Abalone Industry (1913)
The Abandoned Well (1913)
The Abandonment (1916)
L’Abbandonata (1908)
L’Abbé Constantin (1925)
The Abbey Grange (1922)
The “Abbot” & “Cresceus” Race (1901)
Abbruch und Aufbau (192?)
The A.B.C. of Love (1919)
[The Abducted Gypsy] (190?)
The Abductors (1905)
Abe Gets Even with Father (1911)
Abe Lyman and His Orchestra (1927)
Abend - Nacht - Morgen (1920)
Abends Nach Neune (1909)
Die Abenteuer des Herrn Antimarx (192?)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926)
Das Abenteuer eines Journalisten (1914)
Die Abenteuer G.m.B.H. (1928)
Der Abgeführte Liebhaber (1911)
Abide with Me (1914)
Abide with Me (1914)
Abie’s Irish Rose (1929)
About Face (1924)
Above Par (1915)
Above the Abyss (1915)
[Abraham Lincoln I] (1923)
[Abraham Lincoln II] (1923)
Abraham Lincoln’s Clemency (1910)
Abrek Zaur (1926)
L’Abreuvoir (1896)
The Absentee (1915)
Absentminded (1925)
Absent Minded Abe (1913)
An Absent-Minded Burglar (1912)
An Absentminded Cupid (1914)
The Absent Minded Mr. Boob (1913)
An Absentminded Mother (1914)
The Absent Minded Valet (1912)
Absinthe (1913)
Absinthe (1914)
Abwege (1928)
The Abysmal Brute (1923)
The Abyss (1914)
Academy of Music Fire (1903)
An Academy Romance (1914)
A.C. Astor with Sentimental Mac (1928)
Accidental Accidents (1924)
The Accidental Alibi (1913)
An Accidental Baby (1914)
An Accidental Clue (1913)
An Accidental Dentist (1913)
Accidental Heroes (1918)
The Accidental Honeymoon (1918)
An Accidental Outlaw (1911)
An Accidental Servant (1913)
The Accidental Shot (1913)
Accidental Wealth (1922)
Un Accident d’Auto (1907)
Accident Insurance (1913)
An Accident Policy (1915)
Accidents Can Happen (1926)
Accidents Will Happen (1900)
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The Accomplice (1915)
The Accomplice (1917)
The Accomplished Mrs. Thompson (1914)
According to Advice (1913)
According to Law (1912)
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According to St. John (1916)
According to Seniority (1913)
According to the Code (1916)
According to Their Lights (1915)
According to Value (1915)
The Accounting (1915)
Account of Monte Cristo (1925)
Accuracy First (1928)
The Accusation (1914)
The Accusation of Broncho Billy (1913)
The Accusing Evidence (1916)
The Accusing Hand (1913)
The Accusing Pen (1915)
The Accusing Skeleton (1913)
The Accusing Toe (1918)
Ace High (1918)
Ace High (1919)
Ace of Action (1926)
Ace of Cactus Range (1924)
The Ace of Cads (1926)
The Ace of Clubs (1915)
The Ace of Clubs (1926)
The Ace of Death (1915)
The Ace of Diamonds (1915)
Ace of Hearts (1915)
The Ace of Hearts (1921)
The Ace of Scotland Yard (1929)
Ace of Spades (1912)
The Ace of Spades (1925)
The Ace of the Saddle (1919)
An Aching Void (1911)
Aching Youths (1928)
Ach! Such Crimes! (191?)
Ach Wie So Trügerisch (190?)
The Acid Test (1913)
The Acid Test (1914)
The Acid Test (1914)
The Acid Test (1915)
The Acid Test (1924)
The Acquittal (1923)
Acquitted (1916)
Acres of Alfalfa (1914)
The Acrobatic Burglars (1906)
Acrobatic Monkey (1898)
The Acrobat’s Dream (1915)
Across America by Motor Car (1914)
Across Australia in the Track of Burke and Wills (1915)
Across Australia with Francis Birtles (1912)
Across the Alley (1913)
Across the Atlantic (1914)
Across the Atlantic (1928)
Across the Border (1914)
Across the Burning Trestle (1914)
Across the Continent (1913)
Across the Continent (1922)
Across the Court (1914)
Across the Dead-line (1922)
Across the Deadline (1925)
Across the Desert (1915)
Across the Divide (1921)
Across the Footlights (1915)
Across the Hall (1914)
Across the Isthmus of Panama (1912)
Across the Pacific (1914)
Across the Pacific (1926)
Across the Plains (1910)
Across the Plains (1911)
Across the Plains (1928)
Across the Sierras (1912)
Across the Subway Viaduct, New York (1905)
Across to Singapore (1928)
Acteurs japonais: Bataille au sabre (1897)
Acteurs japonais: Dance d’homme (1897)
Acteurs japonais: Exercise de la perruque (1898)
Action (1921)
Action Galore (1925)
The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies (1914)
The Actor’s Children (1910)
The Actors Christmas (1913)
The Actors’ Squad (1927)
An Actor’s Strategy (1913)
The Actress (1928)
The Actress and the Cowboys (1911)
The Actress and the Singer (1911)
[Actualité Sascha] (191?)
Adam and Eva (1923)
Adam and Evil (1927)
Adam Bede (1915)
Adam Bede (1918)
Adam Raises Cain (1922)
Adam’s Apple (1928)
Adam’s Rib (1923)
Adauchi Senshu (1931)
Addio Giovinezza! (1927)
An Address at the Tomb of Garfield (1913)
Adelaide as It is Today (1911)
Adelaide in a Hurry (1911)
Adele (1919)
The Adjustable Bed (1905)
The Admirable Crichton (1918)
Admiral Cervera and Spanish Officers Leaving “St. Louis” (1898)
Admiral Cigarette (1897)
Admiral Dewey at State House, Boston (1899)
Admiral Dewey Landing at Gibraltar (1899)
Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade (1899)
Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade No. 2 (1899)
Admiral Dewey Passing Catholic Club Stand (1899)
Admiral Dewey Receiving His Mail (1898)
Admiral Dewey Receiving the Washington and New York Committees (1899)
Admiral Dewey Taking Leave of Washington Committee on the U.S. Cruiser Olympia (1899)
Admiral Sampson on Board the Flagship (1898)
[Adolph Zukor Speech] (1923)
The Adopted Brother (1913)
The Adopted Daughter (1910)
The Adopted Daughter (1914)
The Adopted Son (1912)
The Adopted Son (1917)
The Adorable Cheat (1928)
The Adorable Outcast (1928)
The Adorable Savage (1920)
Adoration (1928)
Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913)
Advance Guard, Return of New Jersey Troops (1898)
Advance of Kansas Volunteers at Caloocan (1899)
Adventure (1925)
An Adventure in Hearts (1919)
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods (1913)
[The Adventure of a French Gentleman Without Trousers] (1903)
The Adventure of the Thumb Print (1912)
The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus (1914)
An Adventure on the Mexican Border (1913)
The Adventurer (1917)
The Adventurer (1917)
The Adventurer (1920)
The Adventurer (1928)
The Adventure Shop (1919)
The Adventures of a Boy Scout (1915)
The Adventures of a Girl Reporter (1914)
The Adventures of Algy (1925)
The Adventures of a Madcap (1915)
The Adventures of Andy (1914)
The Adventures of Billy (1911)
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (1917)
The Adventures of Carol (1917)
The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
The Adventures of François Villon (1914)
The Adventures of George S. Fishog (1929)
The Adventures of Happy Hooligan (1900)
The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913)
The Adventures of Kitty Cobb (1914)
The Adventures of Lieutenant Petrosino (1912)
The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921)
The Adventures of Peg o’ the Ring (1916)
Adventures of Pimple — The Battle of Waterloo (1913)
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922)
The Adventures of Ruth (1919)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for a Ransom (1905)
The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
The Adventures of the American Cowboy (1907)
An Adventuress (1920)
[An Adventurous Automobile Trip] (190?)
The Adventurous Sex (1925)
The Adventurous Soul (1927)
Advertising for a Wife (1910)
Aegir (1918)
Aegtemand for en Time (191?)
Aegyptens Storbyer (1908)
Aelita (1924)
An Aerial Joyride (1917)
Aero-Engine (1933)
Aeroplane Flight and Wreck (Piloted by M. Cody) (1910)
Aevintyri Jóns og Gvendar (1923)
L’Affaire Dreyfus (1899)
The Affair of an Egg (1910)
An Affair of Hearts (1910)
An Affair of Honor (1897)
An Affair of Honor (1901)
An Affair of Honour (1904)
An Affair of Honour (1904)
An Affair of Three Nations (1915)
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
L’Affiche (1924)
Les Affiches en goguette (1906)
Affinities (1922)
Afgrunden (1910)
Afraid to Fight (1922)
Africa Before Dark (1928)
“Africander” Winning the Suburban Handicap, 1903 (1903)
Aftensmaden (1907)
After a Million (1926)
After Business Hours (1925)
After Dark (1915)
After Five (1915)
Afterglow (1923)
After Her Dough (1914)
After Her Millions (1915)
After His Own Heart (1919)
After Launching (1898)
After Many Days (1912)
After Many Days (1919)
After Many Years (1908)
After Marriage (1925)
Aftermath (1914)
Aftermath (1914)
After Midnight (1927)
After Mid-Night; or, A Burglar’s Daughter (1908)
Afternoon Tea on Board S.S. Doric (1898)
[After Six Days] (1922)
After the Ball (1911)
After the Ball (1914)
After the Battle (1898)
After the First Snow (1903)
After the Fog (1929)
After the Honeymoon (1912)
After the Race — Yachts Returning to Anchorage (1899)
After the Show (1921)
After the Storm (1915)
After the Storm (1928)
After the War (1919)
After Your Own Heart (1921)
[The Age for Love] (190?)
The Agent (1922)
[Agent No. 13] (1912)
Les Agents Tels qu’on Nous les Présente (1908)
The Aggressor (1911)
The Agitator; or, The Cowboy Socialist (1912)
Agnese Visconti (1910)
L’Agonie de Byzance (1913)
L’Agonie des aigles (1921)
[An Agonizing Adventure] (191?)
Agrippina (1910)
Agrippina (1912)
Aguinaldo’s Navy (1900)
Aibu (1933)
Aida (1911)
L’Aiglon (1913)
L’Aiglon (1916)
Aileen of the Sea (1913)
Aimee Semple McPherson (192?)
Aimsir Padraig (1920)
Ain’t She Sweet (1928)
Les Aïnus à Yéso, I (1897)
Les Aïnus à Yéso, II (1897)
The Air Circus (1928)
The Air Hawk (1924)
The Air Legion (1929)
The Air Mail (1925)
Airmail Service (1926)
The Air Patrol (1928)
Air Pirates of 1920 (1909)
Airplane Flight Over Manila (1911)
Air Pockets (1924)
The Airship Destroyer (1909)
The Air-Ship; or, 100 Years Hence (1908)
The Air Torpedo (1914)
Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets (1905)
Akrobater (1907)
Akrobatisches Potpourri (1895)
Äktenskapsbyrån (1912)
An Alabaster Box (1917)
A La Cabaret (1916)
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917)
Aladdin from Broadway (1917)
Aladdin’s Other Lamp (1917)
The Alarm (1914)
The Alarm (1921)
Alarm Clock Andy (1920)
Alas and Alack (1915)
Alaska (191?)
The Alaskan (1924)
The Alaskan-Siberian Expedition (1912)
Alaska Wonders in Motion (1917)
Alas! Poor Yorick! (1913)
Alba di Morte (1919)
[Albania] (191?)
The Albany Night Boat (1928)
[The Alchemist] (191?)
[Alchemist and Demon] (1908)
L’Alchimiste Parafaragamus ou la Cornue infernale (1906)
La Aldea maldita (1929)
Alene i Verden (1908)
Alexander den Store (1917)
Alexander Hamilton (1924)
Alf’s Button (1920)
Algol: Tragödie der Macht (1920)
Algy on the Force (1913)
Algy’s Glorious Fourth of July (1901)
Algy the Piccadilly Johnny (1900)
Algy, the Watchman (1912)
Al Herman (1926)
Alias Billy Sargent (1912)
Alias James-Chauffer (1915)
Alias Jimmie Barton (1916)
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920)
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
Alias Julius Caesar (1922)
Alias Mary Brown (1918)
Alias Mary Flynn (1925)
Alias Mike Moran (1919)
Alias Miss Dodd (1920)
Alias Mrs. Jessop (1917)
Alias the Deacon (1928)
Alias the Lone Wolf (1927)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (190?)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918)
Ali Baba et les quarantes voleurs (1907)
The Alibi (1916)
Alibi (1929)
Ali Bouf a l’huile (1907)
Alice Adams (1923)
Alice and the Dog Catcher (1924)
Alice and the Three Bears (1924)
Alice at the Carnival (1927)
Alice Cans the Cannibals (1925)
Alice Charms the Fish (1926)
Alice Chops the Suey (1925)
Alice Cuts the Ice (1926)
Alice Foils the Pirates (1927)
Alice Gets in Dutch (1924)
Alice Gets Stung (1925)
Alice Helps the Romance (1926)
Alice Hunting in Africa (1924)
Alice in the Alps (1927)
Alice in the Big League (1927)
Alice in the Jungle (1925)
Alice in the Klondike (1927)
Alice in the Wooly West (1926)
Alice in Wonderland (1903)
Alice in Wonderland (1914)
Alice in Wonderland (1914)
Alice in Wonderland (1915)
Alice in Wonderland (1927)
Alice Loses Out (1925)
Alice of Hudson’s Bay (1915)
Alice on the Farm (1926)
Alice Picks the Champ (1925)
Alice Plays Cupid (1925)
Alice Rattled by Rats (1925)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1910)
Alice’s Auto Race (1927)
Alice’s Balloon Race (1926)
Alice’s Brown Derby (1926)
Alice’s Channel Swim (1927)
Alice’s Circus Daze (1927)
Alice’s Day at Sea (1924)
Alice’s Egg Plant (1925)
Alice’s Fishy Story (1924)
Alice’s Knaughty Knight (1927)
Alice’s Little Parade (1926)
Alice’s Medicine Show (1927)
Alice’s Monkey Business (1926)
Alice’s Mysterious Mystery (1926)
Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925)
Alice’s Ornery Orphan (1925)
Alice’s Picnic (1927)
Alice’s Rodeo (1927)
Alice’s Spanish Guitar (1926)
Alice’s Spooky Adventure (1924)
Alice Stage Struck (1925)
Alice’s Three Bad Eggs (1927)
Alice’s Tin Pony (1925)
Alice’s Wild West Show (1924)
Alice’s Wonderland (1923)
Alice the Beach Nut (1927)
Alice the Collegiate (1927)
Alice the Fire Fighter (1926)
Alice the Golf Bug (1927)
Alice the Jail Bird (1925)
Alice the Lumber Jack (1926)
Alice the Peacemaker (1924)
Alice the Piper (1924)
Alice the Toreador (1925)
Alice the Whaler (1927)
Alice Wins the Derby (1925)
The Alien (1915)
The Alien Blood (1917)
An Alien Enemy (1918)
The Aliens’ Invasion (1905)
Alien Souls (1916)
Alimony (1917)
Al Jolson in A Plantation Act (1926)
Alkali Ike’s Automobile (1911)
Alkali Ike’s Gal (1913)
Alkali Ike’s Motorcycle (1912)
Allabad; the Arabian Wizard (1900)
All Aboard! (1917)
All Aboard (1927)
All Aboard!; or, Funny Episodes in a Street Car (1906)
Allan Field’s Warning (1913)
All-Around Frying Pan (1925)
All at Sea (1914)
All at Sea (1914)
All at Sea (1917)
All at Sea (1919)
All at Sea (1925)
All at Sea (1929)
All Coons Look Alike to Me (Parody) (1908)
All Coons Look Alike to Me (1909)
All Dolled Up (1921)
Alles für Geld (1923)
All for a Girl (1915)
All for a Husband (1917)
All for Business (1914)
All for Gold (1911)
All for Gold (1918)
All for Peggy (1915)
All for Science (1913)
All for the Boy (1915)
All Hail to the King (1913)
All is Fair (1912)
All is Fair (1918)
All Jazzed Up (1920)
All Man (1916)
All Man (1918)
All Mixed Up (19??)
All Night (1918)
All Night Long (1924)
All of a Sudden Norma (1919)
All-of-a-Sudden-Peggy (1920)
All on Account of Checkers (1912)
All on Account of the Cheese (1914)
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
All’s Fair in Love (1921)
All’s Fair in Love and War (1910)
All Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan (1917)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1904)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1906)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1907)
[All’s Well That Ends Well] (1909)
[All’s Well That Ends Well] (1910)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1911)
[All’s Well That Ends Well] (1912)
[All’s Well That Ends Well] (1912)
[All’s Well That Ends Well] (1912)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1913)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1913)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1914)
All’s Well That Ends Well (1914)
All That Trouble for a Drink (1908)
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923)
All the World’s a Stage (1915)
All the World to Nothing (1918)
Les Allumettes Animées (1908)
All Wet (1922)
All Wet (1924)
All Wet (1926)
All Wet (1927)
All Woman (1918)
All Wool (1925)
All Wrong (1919)
Ally Sloper (1898)
Alma Barnes the Internationally Famous Mimic (1926)
Alma, Where Do You Live? (1917)
The Almighty Dollar (1916)
Almost a Gentleman (1928)
Almost a Husband (1919)
Almost a King (1903)
Almost an Actress (1913)
Almost an Outrage (1914)
Almost a Widow (1915)
Almost a Wild Man (1913)
The Almost Good Man (1917)
Almost Married (1919)
[Aloha Land] (190?)
Aloha Oe (1915)
Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
Alone (1904)
Alone in London (1915)
Alone in New York (1914)
Along Came a City Chap (1914)
Along Came Auntie (1926)
Along Came Ruth (1924)
Alphonse and Gaston (1902)
Alphonse and Gaston Helping Irishman (1902)
Alphonse and Gaston, No. 1 (1903)
Alphonse and Gaston, No. 2 (1903)
Alphonse and Gaston, No. 3 (1903)
Alpine Antics (1928)
Alraune (1918)
Alraune (1918)
Alraune (1928)
Alsace (1916)
Als ich tot war (1916)
[Al Smith Speech] (1925)
The Alster Case (1915)
Altar Chains (1916)
The Altar of Death (1912)
The Altar of the Aztecs (1913)
Altars of Desire (1927)
The Altar Stairs (1922)
Das alte Gesetz (1923)
Das alte Lied (1930)
Al Treloar in Muscle Exercises (1905)
L’Aluminite (1910)
Alvin and Kelvin Keech (1926)
Always (1909)
Always Audacious (1920)
Always Faithful (1929)
Always in the Way (1915)
Always Late (1923)
Always Room for One More (1905)
Always Tell Your Wife (1914)
Always Tell Your Wife (1923)
Always the Woman (1922)
[Al Wohlman] (1929)
Amachua Kurabu (1920)
Amalia (1914)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
The Amateur Adventuress (1919)
The Amateur Detective (1914)
An Amateur Devil (1920)
The Amateur Gentleman (1920)
The Amateur Gentleman (1926)
[Amateur Gymnast, no. 1] (1894)
[Amateur Gymnast, no. 2] (1894)
The Amateur Liar (1919)
Amateur Night (1910)
Amateur Night on the Ark (1923)
Amateur Night; or, Get Out the Hook (1907)
An Amateur Orphan (1917)
The Amateur Sleuth (1913)
An Amateur Widow (1919)
The Amateur Wife (1920)
The Amazing Impostor (1919)
The Amazing Partnership (1921)
The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920)
The Amazing Wife (1919)
The Amazing Woman (1920)
The Amazons (1917)
L’Amazzone mascherata (1914)
The Ambassador’s Daughter (1912)
Ambition (1914)
Ambition (1916)
Ambition (1917)
The Ambition of the Baron (1914)
The Ambitious Butler (1912)
Ambitious Pa (1914)
Ambrose’s Cup of Woe (1916)
Ambrose’s Day Off (1919)
Ambrose’s First Falsehood (1914)
Ambrose’s Fury (1915)
Ambrose’s Little Hatchet (1915)
Ambrose’s Lofty Perch (1915)
Ambrose’s Nasty Temper (1915)
Ambrose’s Rapid Rise (1916)
Ambrose’s Sour Grapes (1915)
Ambrosius (1910)
Ambulance at the Accident (1897)
Ambulance Call (1897)
Ambushed (1914)
America (1914)
America (1924)
America Goes Over (19??)
America is Ready (1917)
American Aristocracy (1916)
The American Beauty (1916)
American Beauty (1927)
American Buds (1918)
American Catholics in War and Reconstruction (1920)
An American Citizen (1914)
The American Consul (1917)
American Cup Race (1899)
American Falls from Bridge, Niagara Falls (1896)
American Falls from Incline Railroad (1896)
American Falls, Goat Island (1896)
American Falls, Luna Island (1896)
American Flag (1898)
American Flag (1898)
The American Fleet in Hampton Roads, 1909, After Girdling the Globe (1909)
American Game Trails (1915)
An American Gentleman (1915)
The American Girl (1911)
The American Girl (1917)
The American Heiress (1917)
An American Live Wire (1918)
American Maid (1917)
American Methods (1917)
The Americano (1915)
The Americano (1917)
American Pluck (1925)
The American Prisoner (1929)
The American Soldier in Love and War (1903)
American Soldiers in Camp (1898)
American — That’s All (1917)
The American Toreador (1922)
The American Venus (1926)
The American Way (1919)
An American Widow (1917)
America Preparing (1916)
America’s Answer: Following the Fleet to France (1918)
America’s Cup #1 (1899)
America’s Cup #2 (1899)
America’s Polar Triumph (192?)
America Was Right (191?)
Ameta (1903)
’amlet (1919)
Amleto e il suo Clown (1919)
Among Club Fellows (1913)
Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (1918)
Among the Mourners (1914)
Among Those Killed (1915)
Among Those Present (1921)
Un Amore Selvaggio (1912)
The Amorous Militiaman (1904)
Amor pedestre (1914)
Amour d’Automne (1912)
Les Amours de la Reine Elizabeth (1912)
Amours Exotiques (192?)
Am Rande der Welt (1927)
Am Webstuhle der Zeit (1921)
Amy Muller (1896)
The Anarchists (1907)
Anarkistens Svigermoder (1906)
Anarkister om Bord (1909)
Ancient and Honourable Artillery of London on Parade (1903)
Ancient and Honourables of London Homeward Bound (1903)
The Ancient Highway (1925)
The Ancient Mariner (1925)
Ancient Temples of Egypt (1912)
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (1909)
And a Still Small Voice (1918)
And By These Deeds (1915)
Der Anderer (1913)
Anders als die Andern (1919)
And George Did (1924)
And Pat Took Him at His Word (1904)
Andrei Kozhoukov (1917)
Androclès (1912)
And She Never Knew (1914)
And So To Bed (1936)
And the Children Pay (1918)
And the Law Says (1916)
And the Villain Still Pursued Her; or, The Author’s Dream (1906)
And They Called Him Hero (1915)
And Very Nice Too (1913)
And Women Must Weep (1922)
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Angel Child (1918)
The Angel Citizens (1922)
The Angel Factory (1917)
Angelic Attitude (1916)
The Angel of Broadway (1927)
The Angel of Contention (1914)
The Angel of Piety Flat (1916)
Angel of the Desert (1913)
[The Angel of the Mine] (191?)
The Angel of the Studio (1912)
Angelo, Tyran fra Padua (1907)
Angels Unaware (1915)
[The Angelus of Victory] (191?)
The Anglers (1914)
L’Angoisse (1913)
L’Angoisse au Foyer (1915)
Angora Love (1929)
Animal Imitations (1906)
Animated Clown Portrait (1898)
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 21 (1927)
An Animated Luncheon (1900)
Animated Painting (1904)
Animated Picture Studio (1903)
The Animated Poster (1903)
Animated Weekly (No. 187) (1915)
Animation Cartoon “Wiping Something Off the Slate” (1900)
Anita’s Butterfly (1915)
Ankles Preferred (1927)
Anna Ascends (1922)
Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1895)
Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1895)
Annabelle Lee (1924)
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894)
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1897)
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Anna Case, the Prettiest Girl in Grand Opera (1916)
Anna Christie (1923)
Anna-Clara och hennes bröder (1923)
Anna Held (1901)
Anna Karenina (1915)
Anna Lisa (1921)
Annapolis (1928)
Anna the Adventuress (1920)
L’Anneau Fatal (1912)
Anne Boleyn (1912)
Anne Boleyn (1913)
Anne of Green Gables (1919)
Anne of the Mines (1914)
[Annette Kellerman] (1909)
Annexing Bill (1918)
Annie Crawls Upstairs (1912)
Annie-for-Spite (1917)
Annie Laurie (1916)
Annie Laurie (1926)
Annie Laurie (1927)
Annie Oakley (1894)
[Annie’s Love Story] (1904)
Ann of the Golden Heart (1914)
Ann’s Finish (1918)
Ann, the Blacksmith (1914)
Annual Baby Parade, 1904, Asbury Park, N.J. (1904)
Annual Parade, New York Fire Department (1904)
[Anny — Story of a Prostitute] (1912)
[The Anonymous Letter] (1912)
Another Job for the Undertaker (1901)
Another Man’s Boots (1922)
Another Man’s Shoes (1922)
Another Name Was Maude (1906)
Another Scandal (1924)
Ansigtet bag Ruden (1914)
Ansigtstyven (1910)
Ansigtstyven II (1910)
The Answer (1918)
Anthony and Cleopatra (1924)
The Antics of Ann (1917)
The Antidote (1927)
[Ant Life] (1912)
Anton the Terrible (1916)
Antony and Cleopatra (1908)
[Antony and Cleopatra] (1913)
[Antony and Cleopatra] (1913)
Antos po raz Pierwszy w Warszawie (1908)
Antychryst (1914)
L’An 1000 (1910)
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928)
Any Day in Hollywood (192?)
Any Old Port (1920)
Anything Once (1917)
Anything Once (1925)
Anything Once! (1927)
Any Woman (1925)
Aoi Tori (192?)
L’Apache (1919)
Apache Dance (1909)
An Apache Father’s Vengeance (1913)
The Apache Kid (1913)
Apachepigens haevn (1909)
The Apaches of Paris (1915)
Apartment 29 (1917)
[An Apish Trick] (1909)
The Apostle of Vengeance (1916)
El apostol (1917)
Apothéose (1895)
Les Apparitions Fugitives (1904)
The Appearance of Evil (1918)
Appearances (1921)
Applause (1929)
Apple Industry — Tasmania (1910)
The Apple-Tree Girl (1917)
Appointment by Telephone (1902)
Après le Bal — Le Tub (1897)
April (1916)
April Folly (1920)
April Fool (1911)
April Fool (1911)
April Fool (1918)
April Fool (1920)
April Fool (1924)
April Fool (1926)
An April Fool Joke (1901)
April Showers (1923)
À Propos de Nice (1930)
The Arab (1915)
The Arab (1924)
Arab Act, Luna Park (1903)
Arabella (1916)
Arabella (1924)
Arabesque (1929)
Arabian Gun Twirler (1899)
Arabian Jewish Dance (1903)
An Arabian Knight (1920)
Arabian Love (1922)
The Arab’s Bride (1912)
Araki Mataemon (1935)
The Arbitrator (1904)
Arcadia, Florida (1926)
An Arcadian Elopement (1907)
An Arcadian Maid (1910)
The Arcadians (1927)
Archie Goes Shopping with the Girls (1908)
Are All Men Alike? (1920)
Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918)
Are Parents People? (1925)
Are Parents Pickles? (1925)
Are Scotchmen Tight? (1928)
Are They Born or Made? (1915)
Are Waitresses Safe? (1917)
Are You a Failure? (1923)
Are You a Mason? (1915)
Are You Legally Married? (1919)
Are You Sincere? (1907)
Are You Sincere? (1909)
Are You There? (1901)
L’Argent (1928)
Argentine Love (1924)
The Argonauts of California — 1849 (1916)
The Argument (1918)
The Argyle Case (1929)
Aristocracy (1914)
Arizona (1913)
Arizona (1918)
Arizona Bound (1927)
The Arizona Cat Claw (1919)
Arizona Cyclone (1928)
Arizona Days (1928)
The Arizona Express (1924)
The Arizona Kid (1929)
An Arizona Romance (1911)
The Arizona Romeo (1925)
The Arizona Sweepstakes (1925)
The Arizona Whirlwind (1927)
The Arizona Wildcat (1927)
An Arizona Wooing (1915)
Arline’s Chauffeur (1915)
Arme Eva (1914)
Arme Marie!: Ein Warenhausroman (1915)
The Armenian Archbishop, Rome (1903)
An Armenian Crucifixion (191?)
Armour’s Electric Trolley (1897)
Arms and the Girl (1917)
Arms and the Gringo (1914)
Arms and the Woman (1917)
Arms in France (191?)
Armstrong’s Wife (1915)
The Army Cap (1905)
Army Life; or, How Soldiers Are Made (1900)
Army Socks (1909)
The Army Surgeon (1912)
Aroostook County (1920)
Around New York in 15 Minutes (1905)
Around the Flip-Flap Railroad (1900)
Around the Mulberry Bush (1902)
Around the World in 18 Days (1923)
Around the World in Ninety Minutes (1916)
Around the World in the Speejacks (1923)
Around the World Via Graf Zeppelin (1929)
Arrah-na-Pogue (1911)
An Arrest (1896)
Arrestation med “ekstraforplejning” (1909)
Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal. (1897)
The Arrest of a Bookmaker (1896)
The Arrest of a Pickpocket (1896)
Arrest of a Shoplifter (1900)
[The Arrest of the Duchesse de Berry] (1910)
Arrival of Emigrants, Ellis Island (1906)
The Arrival of Li Hung Chang (1896)
Arrival of McKinley’s Funeral Train at Canton, Ohio (1901)
The Arrival of Perpetua (1915)
Arrival of Prince Henry and President Roosevelt at Shooter’s Island (1902)
Arrival of the Governor General, Lord Minto, at Quebec (1902)
[Arrival of the Mail Boat at Folkestone] (189?)
Arrival of Tokyo Train (1898)
Arrival of Train at Muskoka Wharf (1900)
Arrival of Train, Cheyenne (1901)
Arrival of Train — Load of Visitors at Henley Station (1898)
Arrival of Train of Cattle (1901)
Arrival of Train, Tien-Tsin (1901)
Arrival of Train, Tokyo, Japan (1901)
Arrivée d’un train (1896)
Arrivée d’un train (1898)
Arrivée d’un train à Battery Place (1896)
Arrivée d’un train à Perrache (189?)
L’Arrivée d’un train de Vincennes (1898)
L’Arrivée d’un train en Gare de la Ciotat (1895)
Arrivée d’un train, Gare de Vincennes (1896)
L’arrivée du train (1903)
Arrivo del treno stazione di Milano (1896)
L’Arroseur (1896)
L’Arroseur arrosé (1895)
The Arrow’s Tongue (1914)
Arsenal (1929)
Arsen Dzhordzhiashveli (1921)
Arsene Lupin (1916)
Arsene Lupin (1917)
Arsene Lupin Contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
Arsene Lupin Utolso Kalandja (1921)
Artful Kate (1911)
Arthur Roberts (1927)
Arthur’s Deep Resolve (1916)
Artie, the Millionaire Kid (1916)
Artillerie (exercice du tir) (1896)
Artillery Firing (1900)
[Artillery in Barcelona] (1897)
The Artist and the Brute (1913)
The Artist’s Dilemma (1901)
The Artist’s Dream (1899)
An Artist’s Dream (1900)
The Artist’s Dream (1913)
The Artist’s Madonna (1914)
The Artist’s Model (1897)
Artist’s Point (1901)
The Artist’s Studio (1903)
The Art of Diving (1920)
The Art of Making Up (1900)
Art Studies (1900)
Arvingen til Kragsholm (1909)
The Aryan (1916)
Asakusa Temple, Tokio, Japan (1901)
As a Man Lives (1923)
As a Man Thinks (1919)
As a Woman Sows (1916)
The Ascent of Mount Tamalpais (190?)
Ashamed of Parents (1922)
Ashes (1922)
Ashes of Embers (1916)
Ashes of Hope (1914)
Ashes of Hope (1917)
Ashes of Inspiration (1915)
Ashes of Love (1918)
Ashes of the Past (1914)
Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
Ashi ni Sawatta Onna (1926)
Ashton and Rawson (1928)
Asia in America, St. Louis Exposition (1904)
As in a Looking Glass (1903)
As in a Looking Glass (1911)
As in a Looking Glass (1916)
As in the Days of Old (1915)
As It Happened (1915)
As It Is in Life (1910)
As It Might Have Been (1914)
Ask Father (1919)
Ask Grandma (1925)
As Man Desires (1925)
As Man Made Her (1917)
As Men Love (1917)
Asphalt (1929)
[The Asphalt Industry] (191?)
L’Assassinat du duc de Guise (1903)
L’Assassinat du duc de Guise (1908)
Assassination of President McKinley (190?)
The Assassination of the Serbian Royal Family (1903)
[The Assault] (191?)
As Seen On the Curtain (1904)
As Seen Through the Telescope (1900)
Assembling a Generator, Westinghouse Works (1904)
Assigned to His Wife (1911)
L’Assommoir (1909)
Assorted Heroes (1921)
Assunta Spina (1914)
As the Bells Rang Out! (1910)
As the Candle Burned (1916)
As the Sun Went Down (1919)
As the World Rolls On (1921)
As Told by Princess Bess (1912)
Astor Battery on Parade (1899)
The Astor Tramp (1899)
Astray From the Steerage (1920)
Astuzia di Robinet (1911)
As We Lie (1927)
As Ye Sow (1914)
As You Like It (1908)
As You Like It (1912)
Atala (1912)
At a Quarter of Two (1911)
At Bay (1915)
At Bear Track Gulch (1913)
At Cairns, North Queensland (1913)
At Coney Island (1912)
At Dawn (1914)
At First Sight (1917)
Athalie (1910)
[Athlete With Wand] (1894)
The Athletic American Girls (1907)
The Athletic Girl and the Burglar, No. 1 (1905)
The Athletic Girl and the Burglar, No. 2 (1905)
At It Again (1912)
At It Again (1916)
At It Again (1928)
Atlantic (1929)
[Atlantic Avenue, Boston] (1896)
Atlantic City Fire Department (1897)
Atlantic City Floral Parade (1904)
L’Atlantide (1921)
Atlantik (1929)
Atlantis (1913)
At Old Fort Dearborn (1912)
The Atom (1918)
Atonement (1919)
Atop of the World in Motion (1912)
At Phnom Penh, Cambodia (1913)
At Piney Ridge (1916)
Atta Boy (1926)
Atta Boy’s Last Race (1916)
An Attack by Torpedo Boats (1903)
Attack of Fort Boonesboro (1906)
Attack on a Chinese Mission — Bluejackets to the Rescue (1900)
[Attack on Port Arthur] (1904)
Attack on Port Arthur (1904)
An Attempted Duet (1928)
Attempt to Escape That Led to Misfortune (1899)
At the Altar (1909)
At the Ball Game (1927)
[At the Barber’s] (189?)
At the Basket Picnic (1912)
At the Count of Ten (1916)
At the Cross Roads (1914)
At the Crossroads of Life (1908)
At the Dressmaker’s (1903)
At the Duke’s Command (1911)
At the End of the World (1921)
At the Foot of the Flatiron (1903)
At the Fountain (1902)
At the French Ball (1908)
At the Front with the Allies (1916)
At the Gringo Mine (1911)
At the Halfbreed’s Mercy (1913)
At the Mercy of Men (1918)
At the Old Stage Door (1919)
At the Photographer’s (19??)
[At the Prison Gates] (1913)
At the Ringside (1921)
At the Road’s End (1915)
At the Stage Door; or, Bridget’s Romance (1908)
At the Villa Rose (1920)
The Attic Above (1914)
Attila (1918)
L’Attrait de Bourge (1912)
At Twelve O’Clock (1913)
Au Bagne (1905)
L’Auberge du bon repos (1903)
L’Auberge ensorcelée (1897)
L’Auberge Rouge (1910)
Au bonheur des dames (1930)
Au Clair de la Lune ou Pierrot malheureux (1904)
The Auction Block (1917)
The Auction Block (1926)
Auction of Souls (1919)
The Auction of Virtue (1917)
Les Audaces de Coeur (1913)
The Audience Leaving the Theatre Royal (1906)
Audrey (1916)
Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920)
Auf Eis geführt (1915)
[Aufforderung Zum Tanz] (1925)
Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918)
Au Gré des Flots (1913)
[August 20] (1906)
Auld Lang Syne (1911)
[Auld Lang Syne] (1925)
Auld Lang Syne (1929)
Auntie Takes the Children to the Country (1909)
Aunt Jane and the Tobasco Sauce (1902)
Aunt Jane’s Experience with Tobasco Sauce (1900)
Aunt Sallie’s Wonderful Bustle (1901)
Aunts, Too Many (1913)
Aunty and the Girls (1913)
Au Pays des Lions (1912)
Aurora Floyd (1915)
Au Secours! (1924)
Aus Mangel an Beweisen (1916)
Die Austernprinzessin (1919)
The Austin Flood (1911)
Australia at War (1916)
Australia Calls (1913)
[Australian Navy Contingent Departing Melbourne for the Boxer Rebellion] (1900)
The Australian Talkies Newsreel (1929)
Australia’s Lonely Lands (1924)
Australia’s Peril (1917)
Die Austreibung (1923)
Authentic European War (1915)
Author! Author! (1915)
Auto Boat Race on the Hudson (1904)
Auto Climbing Contest (1906)
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction (1913)
Auto Intoxication (1917)
[The Automatic Moving Company] (1911)
The Automatic Weather Prophet (1901)
Automobile Parade (1899)
Automobile Parade (1900)
Automobile Parade on the Coney Island Boulevard (1901)
Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup (1904)
The Automobile Ride (1921)
The Automobile Thieves (1906)
Automobiling Among the Clouds (1904)
An Auto Nut (1919)
Auto Races, Ormond, Florida (1905)
The Auto-somnambulist (1906)
Autour d’une cabine (1894)
L’Autre (1917)
Autruches (1896)
Autumn (1916)
Autumn Violet (1916)
Aux Lions les Chrétiens (1911)
The Availing Prayer (1914)
The Avalanche (1915)
The Avalanche (1919)
Avalanche (1928)
Avarice (1927)
Ave Maria (Gounod) (1906)
Ave Maria (1918)
Ave Maria (192?)
The Avenger (19??)
The Avenger (1922)
The Avenger (1924)
Avenging a Crime; or, Burned at the Stake (1904)
The Avenging Arrow (1921)
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
[The Avenging Poilu] (191?)
The Avenging Sea (1915)
The Avenging Shot (1916)
The Avenging Trail (1917)
Une Aventure de Henry IV (1911)
L’Aventure des Millions (1916)
Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoë (1902)
Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes (1911)
L’Aventurière (1912)
Une avenue à Tokyo (1898)
The Average Woman (1924)
L’Aveugle de Jérusalem (1909)
The Aviator (1929)
The Awakening (1909)
The Awakening (1916)
The Awakening (1917)
The Awakening (1928)
The Awakening of Bess (1909)
The Awakening of Bess Morton (1916)
[Awakening of Chrysis] (190?)
The Awakening of Donna Isolla (1914)
The Awakening of Helena Richie (1916)
The Awakening of John Bond (1911)
The Awakening of Nora (1914)
The Awakening of Ruth (1917)
Awaremi no Kyoku (1919)
Away Goes Prudence (1920)
An Awful Moment (1908)
An Awful Skate; or, The Hobo on Rollers (1907)
The Awful Truth (1925)
The Awful Truth (1929)
The Awkward Man; or, Oh! So Clumsy (1907)
A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck
The Lost World (1925) 1hr 8mins 16secs (silent/tinted scenes/and fine musical score)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8853771651097696497&q=carnival+of+souls
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages [1916] (part1) D.W. Griffith - 1 hr
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3186194839005883658&q=%22Intolerance%22
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages [1916](part 2) D.W. Griffith - 1 hr
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3547917799518990929&q=%22Intolerance%22
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages ([1916] (part3) D.W. Griffith - 57 min
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2043906030656502843&q=%22Intolerance%22
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) 1hr 41mins
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6226370249596656999&q=Der+Golem&hl=en
Short film: Name Unknown (1950?) 10mins 1sec
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5789712373151278825&q=roger+corman&hl=en
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville (1921) Windsor McCay 13mins 46secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4348823780121203599&q=public+domain&hl=en
Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer 1hr 12mins 26secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6035615655590816380&q=public+domain&hl=en
The Sinking of The Lusitania (1919) Winsor McCay 9mins 47secs
propaganda piece...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=390140046814994843&q=public+domain&hl=en
Der Letzte Mann/ The Last Laugh (1924) F.W. Murnau 1hr 27mins 39secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6243006633793166196&q=public+domain&hl=en
The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage collection include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaus. The films represented date from copyrights of 1897 to 1920; the majority are drawn from the Library's extensive Paper Print Collection. The remaining films were produced by Hans A. Spanuth in Chicago from 1919 to 1920 for the series "Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies." These motion pictures present a rare animated record of vaudeville acts from the turn of the century. Although not actually filmed on a theatrical stage, they sought to recreate the atmosphere of a theater performance by showing the types of vaudeville acts and performers that were popular at the time.
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List of Variety Stage Films
Animal Acts
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
Stealing a Dinner
[Animal Act with Baboon, Dog, and Donkey] from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies
Tom Tinker's Pony Patter from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies
Jumbo - The Trained Elephant from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies
Burlesque
From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen
Karina
Kiss Me
Pity the Blind, no. 2
Princess Rajah Dance
Trapeze Disrobing Act
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola
Comic Sketches
Alphonse and Gaston, no. 3
As In a Looking Glass
The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, but He Fools Them
Chimmie Hicks at the Races
The Chimney Sweep and the Miller
Dancing Boxing Match, Montgomery and Stone
Dog Factory
The Extra Turn
A Frontier Flirtation
A Gesture Fight in Hester Street
Happy Hooligan
Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians
Mr. Jack in the Dressing Room
The Serenaders
Subub Surprises the Burglar
The Tramp's Unexpected Skate
2 A.M. in the Subway
A Wake in "Hell's Kitchen"
Dance
Ameta
Betsy Ross Dance
Cake Walk
Charity Ball
Comedy Cake Walk
Crissie Sheridan
Dance, Franchonetti Sisters
Ella Lola, a la Trilby
Fougere
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity
A Nymph of the Waves
A "Tough" Dance
Dramatic Excerpt
Duel Scene, "By Right of Sword"
Dramatic Sketches
A Ballroom Tragedy
Fights of Nations
The Society Raffles
Physical Culture
Arabian Gun Twirler
Bicycle Trick Riding, no. 2
Expert Bag Punching
Gordon Sisters Boxing
Japanese Acrobats
Latina, Contortionist
Latina, Dislocation Act
Sandow
Kawana Trio from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies, no. 6
Three Acrobats
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
Kruger and Ward from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies
Three Jumping Tommies from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies, no. 38
Toto Brothers from Spanuth's Original Vod-A-Vil Movies
Tableaus
Spirit of `76
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Variety Stage Motion Pictures Home Page
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vsfmlst.html
Silent Animated Films at the Library of Congress
Prepared by Joy A. McIntire
December 7, 1995 (Updated April 1999)
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INTRODUCTION
The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division (M/B/RS) has a rare and valuable collection of silent animated film. This collection contains early cartoon series such as the Alice Comedies, Felix the Cat, and Mutt and Jeff. The collection also has animated educational films such as Tommy's Troubles (1926) which teaches children how to take care of their teeth by eating healthy foods and brushing. An animated account of The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) by Winsor McCay provides a historical representation of this pivotal event that prompted the United States to join World War I. Political cartoons also appear in the collection including Cartoon: T.R.'s Arrival in Africa (1909) which is a parody of President Theodore Roosevelt's safari trips. The earliest silent animated film in the collection is The Enchanted Drawing produced by Thomas Edison in 1900. This film depicts a live artist drawing a sad looking tramp on a sketch pad and as the artist continues to draw his face changes in slow motion. In the same animation style the Library of Congress also has Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906). Both of those films are also part of the Paper Print Collection which is comprised of films that for copyright purposes in the early 1900's were sent to the library as stills on rolls of paper instead of on film. These silent animated films offer an interesting portrayal of American history and folklife and the Library places a high priority on preserving and making them accessible to scholars. We hope this filmography will be a useful research tool for scholars, filmmakers, and librarians.
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SCOPE
The research guide includes more than 250 silent animated films produced in 1929 or earlier. Some of the films are not yet viewable because they are archival copies, but viewing copies are being made as indicated by "ref. copy forthcoming" in the entry. For the purpose of this research guide, the term "animation" includes cel, clay, and puppet animation and the term "silent" includes any animated film without sound. In addition, there are indexes of character names, personal names, and series titles. (The personal names index include directors, producers, animators, collection donors, cast members, or anyone whose name appears in the citation.)
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Film titles were garnered from various automated and manual files at the Library of Congress. Both cataloged and uncatalogued films have been included in this research guide. Where M/B/RS has more than one copy of a film only the viewable reference print is listed.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/animate.html
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island (1903) 12mins 19secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3400791690644766735&q=public+domain&hl=en
Title in Edison films catalog: Rube and Mandy's visit to Coney Island
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1903.
SUMMARY
From Edison films catalog: The first scene shows this country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase, rope bridge, riding the bulls and the "Down and Out." The scene then changes to a panorama of Luna Park, and we find Rube and Mandy doing stunts on the rattan slide, riding on the miniature railway, shooting the chutes, riding the boats in the old mill, and visiting Professor Wormwood's Monkey theatre. They next appear on the Bowery, where we find them with the fortune tellers, striking the punching machine, and winding up with the frankfurter man. The climax shows a bust view of Rube and Mandy eating frankfurters. Interesting not only for its humorous features, but also for its excellent views of Coney Island and Luna Park. Length 725 feet. Class B. $87.00.
NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 13Aug1903; H34528.
Duration: 3:55 (part 1), 3:44 (part 2), and 4:20 (part 3) at 16 fps.
Filmed at Coney Island in New York, New York.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, 1991, p. 249-50; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; Edison films catalog, no. 185, October supplement 1903, p. 16 [MI].
Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+2725s1))
The Unholy Three (1925) 1hr 13mins 2secs Tod Browning
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1638445445608698231&q=public+domain&hl=en
The Unholy Three (1925) ***
Generally speaking, when the subject of Tod Browning’s The Unholy Three comes up, it is in the context of early American horror movies. The only real reason for this would seem to be that the film was directed by Browning, and starred Lon Chaney, both of them men who left a profound mark on the horror genre. For despite its associations, The Unholy Three really isn’t a horror movie at all, but rather one of the strangest, most dementedly off-kilter crime dramas ever filmed.
(Link to rest of article)...http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/unholythree1925.htm
Frankenstein (1910) 12mins 40secs Edison
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3076844987926952949&q=public+domain&hl=en
Video: An American Film Company ....An historical documentary about Santa Barbara based Flying A Studios by UC Santa Barbara Film Studies Professor Dana Driskel
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3669872004725643418&q=film+study&hl=en
A short film directed by Adam Schoales: Waste Management ...ps. I think this guy's got talent FWIW. He's the tall skinny red-headed in the film...or rather, the guy in the last short story.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1950008087312162135&q=student+film&hl=en
Rien que les heures (French silent) 34mins 58secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4197671867245908870&q=public+domain&hl=en
Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination/"Warning Shadows" 1hr 2mins 44secs Silent film with sound track...German Expressionist film.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8192755656540840406&q=public+domain&hl=en
Thais (French subtitles) 1916 34mins 30secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8697736974279718447&q=public+domain&hl=en
Romance Sentimentale/"Sentimental Romance" (France) 1930 19mins 55secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3197608994276162444&q=public+domain&hl=en
La Souriante Madame Beudet/"The Smiling Madame Beudet" (1923) Dir. Germaine DuLac 26mins 20secs One the first feminist movies.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4968270121807192618&q=public+domain&hl=en
La villa Santo Sospir (French...in French) 1952 Dir. Jean Cocteau 36mins 39secs...amateur film shot in 16mm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2401418189829938388&q=public+domain&hl=en
One Week 11mins 58secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8123364905716533317&q=groucho+marx&hl=en
The Kiss (1900) 47secs Thomas A. Edison
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2244244145702745980&q=sherlock+holmes
The Great Train Robbery (1902) Edison
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7949193416885414135&q=sherlock+holmes
Let's Go To The Movies 1949 9mins 10secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1378496294552261237&q=public+domain&hl=en
Technicolor for Industrial Films 1949
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1433534420720902472&q=public+domain&hl=en
Stanley Kubrick: Pioneer in Film History 2001 (a student's work)
Existence Echoes?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6386566576977228501&q=movie+history&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8010042903780190860&q=movie+history&hl=en
La chute de la maison Usher 1928 French Silent Film with musical score, English narration (by man with a French accent) and title cards.
Director Jean Epstein
Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7066392680185879048&q=public+domain&hl=en
An Evening with Oliver Stone: A Dialogue on Classic Filmmaking
UCTV: UC Berkley 55mins 5secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6323592946349409725&q=classic+movie
Fantastic Planet scored by everyone.doesntexist 1hr 11mins 30secs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3064984200803032304&q=french+movie
I bumped into a very fine short film today: First Love 6 mins 47 secs (A short film by Nick Flight and Scott Camac) 2006
Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6425594974100066393&q=charlie+chaplin+film&hl=en
Link to the First Love's blog: http://firstlovethemovie.blogspot.com/
The Edison Movie Monopoly
The Motion Picture Patents Company vs. the Independent Outlaws
by J. A. Aberdeen
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In December 1908, the motion picture inventors and industry leaders organized the first great film trust called the Motion Picture Patents Company, designed to bring stability to the chaotic early film years characterized by patent wars and litigation. The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers, distributors, and exhibitors.
A January 1909 deadline was set for all companies to comply with the license. By February, unlicensed outlaws, who referred to themselves as independents protested the trust and carried on business without submitting to the Edison monopoly. In the summer of 1909 the independent movement was in full-swing, with producers and theater owners using illegal equipment and imported film stock to create their own underground market.
With the country experiencing a tremendous expansion in the number of nickelodeons, the Patents Company reacted to the independent movement by forming a strong-arm subsidiary known as the General Film Company to block the entry of non-licensed independents. With coercive tactics that have become legendary, General Film confiscated unlicensed equipment, discontinued product supply to theaters which showed unlicensed films, and effectively monopolized distribution with the acquisition of all U.S. film exchanges, except for the one owned by the independent William Fox who defied the Trust even after his license was revoked.
Many of the early independents were resilient film exhibitors who ventured into production when they found their supply of film threatened. Carl Laemmle (Independent Motion Picture Company or IMP), Harry E. Aitken (Majestic Films), and Adolph Zukor (Famous Players) were among the pioneering independents who protested the Trust, and then laid the foundation for the Hollywood studios. Having entered the business through exhibition, they determined that they liked production better, and got out of the theater business as the nickelodeon boom ended around 1911.
As the independent outlaws flourished, the Motion Picture Patents Company was also hit with antitrust charges by the United States government. In October 1915, the courts determined that the Patents Company and its General Film division acted as a monopoly in restraint of trade, and later ordered it disintegrated. But clearly by the time the decision was handed down, the independents had already outmaneuvered the Trust. The Edison monopoly had taken a retrogressive stance to the innovative industry reforms introduced by the outlaws.
At a time when the American independents and foreign filmmakers were creating feature length movies, the Trust clung to the familiar short-film format. Generally speaking, the Patents Trust also resisted turning their stock actors into recognizable performers, while the outlaws like Laemmle and Zukor were developing the star system into a powerful marketing tool. Furthermore, by moving their studios out west, the outlaws were not only capitalizing on California's optimal year-round outdoor shooting conditions, they were also pioneering a division between the east-coast business headquarters and the west-coast production operation that became another trademark of the Hollywood studio system. Historians of early film have pointed out that each of these innovations originated within the ranks of the Patents Company. However the unwillingness of the Trust to adapt to the changes cleared the way for the rise of the Hollywood studio system while the Edison monopoly perished
http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edison_trust.htm
Motion Picture Sound 1910-1929
1910 - Eugene A. Lauste was born in Paris in 1857, worked at Edison's Orange N.J. lab 1887-1892 under W.K.L. Dickson, joined Major Woodville Latham 1894 to develop the Eidoloscope, a wide film projector that used the Latham loop, first exhibited publicly in May 1894 in New York. While working for Edison, Lauste read a Scientific American 1881 article about Bell's Photophone and sought to use this method to record sound on 35mm motion picture film. He applied for a patent in England on Aug. 11, 1906, and granted in 1910, for a "new and improved method of and means for simultaneously recording and reproducing movements and sounds." (Fielding p. 173). His first device used a mechanical grate, then mirrors, and by 1910 developed a light gate of a vibrating silicon wire between two magnets. Lauste made many sound films 1910-1914, but was halted by the war.
Edison Kinetophone, 1913
from Edison NHS
1913 - Edison developed the Kinetophone that connected a special cylinder machine with oversize long-playing cylinders to a film projector by means of an overhead belt with 3-inch pulleys. The speed was governed by the phonograph behind the screen and the projector at the other end of the theater in the projection booth had a braking device to slow the film speed to keep synchronization.
1915 - Harold Arnold began program at Bell Labs to improve sound recording using the vacuum tube amplifier, condenser microphone, balanced armature loudspeaker, and light valve. This would lead to the electrical recording technology used by the two basic motion picture sound systems: sound-on-disc and sound-on-film. Edward B. Craft was asst. chief engineer at Western Electric 1918-1922, then VP of Bell Labs 1925. He led the motion picture sound project. He arranged demonstrations at Yale Oct. 27, 1922, and in Feb. 1924 for the sound-on-disc method that produced better sound than the sound-on-film method. A recording studio was set up in 1923 to make experimental films. The Western Electric sound-on-disc system made test films in room 1109 at 463 West St. by H. M. Stoller, under project chief J. P. Maxfield. T. L. Downey designed the recording turntable; H. C. Harrison designed the electrical recording head with cutting sylus; E. C. Wente designed condenser microphone (Patent No. 1,333,744 filed December 20, 1916) and an improved light valve for sound-on-film (Patent No. 1,638,555 filed May 1, 1923).
1917 - Theodore W. Case developed the Thalofide photocell that used thallium oxysulfide. By 1922 he developed the Aeo-light as a source of modulated light. E. I. Sponable worked with Case after 1916 and from 1922 to 1925 he shared equipment with de Forest. Case and Sponable in 1924 developed a sound recording mechanism for a modified Bell and Howell camera using the Aeo-light tube. After breaking off from de Forest in 1925, Case began to develop a projector sound head, offset 20 frames at a speed of 90 ft. per min., using a narrow slit with a helical filament. General Electric and Western Electric were developing their own sound systems, so did not wish to buy into the Case-Sponable system. William Fox licensed the system July 23, 1926, and organized the Fox-Case Corp. with Courtland Smith as president to develop what became known as the Movietone News service. Sponable left the Case lab to join Fox in designing the recording studios in New York and Hollywood, and he designed in 1927 a screen that allowed sound to pass through the screen. The Fox-Case Corp. licensed amplifiers and speakers from Western Electric in 1926 and from ERPI organized in January 1927.
1918 - J.T. Tykociner developed a sound-on-film system at the University of Illinois that used mercury arc light and a Kunz photocell (a cathode of potassium on silver).
1921 - Charles A. Hoxie developed a sound film recorder called the "Pallophotophone" (meant "shaking light sound") at GE, a company that had a well-established photographic and motion picture laboratory under C. E. Bathcholtze for company use and publicity. He recorded speeches by President Coolidge and his Secretary of War and others that were broadcast on WGY in Schenectady in 1922. He developed that Pallotrope that was a photoelectric microphone to be used as the sound pickup. His film soundtracks were variable-area type. GE gave demos in 1926 and 1927 of the Hoxie system with loudpseakers and amplifiers from Bell Labs. The GE system was called the Kinegraphone and used to exhibit a "road show" version of the Paramount film Wings in 1927, using multiple-unit cone-and-baffle type loudspeakers in a bank on each side of the screen. The soundhead was placed on top of the projector because sound projectors had not yet been installed in theaters. Film speed was 90 ft. per min (24 fps) and the optical soundtrack was recorded on the edge of the film, image size haveing been reduced from 1 inch down to 7/8 inch to make room for the variable area soundtrack. In 1927 the film project was transferred from the Engineering Laboratory to the Radio Dept. for commercial manufacturing. GE would work closely with Westinghouse and RCA in the manufacturing of sound film equipment.
1922 - Western Electric presented an experimental animated sound-on-disc film "The Audion" at Yale on Oct. 27, 1922. Cecil B. DeMille began using the Western Electric public address system to instruct extras on his movie sets at Paramount.
1923 - The Rivoli Theater in New York exhibited on April 15, 1923, one of the first programs of de Forest short Phonofilms. It featured vaudeville stars Weber & Fields, Sissle & Blake, Phil Baker, Eddie Cantor, Eva Puck & Sammy White, Conchita Piquir. The next year de Forest made a 2-reel sound comedy, Love's Old Sweet Song, with actress Una Merkel. But studios resisted spending millions to equip theaters with sound equipment.
(for more go here) http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/motionpicture1.html
History of Edison Motion Pictures:
Early Edison Motion Picture Production (1892-1895)
The Black Maria, Edison's first motion picture studio.
A constant flow of new film subjects was needed to keep the new invention popular, so a motion picture production studio was built at West Orange in December 1892. It was dubbed the Black Maria on account of its resemblance to a police patrol wagon. The studio had a roof that could be opened to admit sunlight for illumination, and the building itself was mounted on a revolving pivot so that the structure could be constantly repositioned to keep it aligned with the sun.
(The Black Maria's era came to an end in January 1901 when Edison inaugurated a new glass-enclosed studio on a rooftop in New York.)
The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright by W. K. L. Dickson at the Library of Congress in August 1893. The earliest copyrighted film that still survives is Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, also known as Fred Ott's Sneeze, which records Fred Ott, an Edison employee, sneezing comically for the camera. This motion picture was not submitted to the Copyright Office on celluloid film, but rather as a series of positive photographic prints.
For rest of article go here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html
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