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- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe seventh of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip awakes from his slumber, having significantly aged during his sleep.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAfter the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures emerge from this jungle of color: the first, a shirtless man, appears twice, coming into focus, then disappearing behind the bursts and patterns of color, then reappearing; the second figure appears later, in the right foreground. This figure suggests someone older, someone of substance. The myth?
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonAn athlete swings Indian clubs.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsWilliam K.L. DicksonThe earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe third of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip helps the dwarf carrying the barrel into the mountains.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe second of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, a dwarf carrying a barrel appears. Rip friendly takes the barrel from him.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe eighth and final of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, an elderly Rip crosses the mountain.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe first of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, two men - one of them being Rip himself - toast and enjoy their drinks.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe fifth of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip starts drinking with the mountain-men and gets severely drunk.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe sixth of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip passes out from drinking and falls asleep.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
- DirectorJames H. WhiteStarsThomas A. Edison"This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great inventor. The scene is an actual one, showing Mr. Edison in working dress engaged in an interesting chemical experiment in his great Laboratory. There is sufficient movement to lead the spectator through the several processes of mixing, pouring, testing, etc. as if he were side by side with the principal. The lights and shadows are vivid, and the apparatus and other accessories complete a startling picture that will appeal to every beholder."
- DirectorEd CatmullFrederic ParkeStarsEd CatmullDisplays the hand turning, opening and closing, pointing at the viewer, and flexing its fingers, ending with a shot that seemingly travels up inside the hand.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsAnnabelle MooreAnnabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsCharles KayserJohn OttThree men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterA most interesting picture at the Pan-American Exposition. The picture was taken from the north side of the Electric Tower. It presents the most perfect and diversified views of the Transportation Building, Mexican Plaza, the Stadium and the north side of the Electric Tower.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreAuguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsCarl GoliathTopsyThe execution of Topsy, a female elephant, in a publicity stunt advertising the opening of Luna Park on Coney Island. Topsy was originally owned by Forepaugh Circus where she killed a drunken spectator who burned the tip of her trunk with a cigar. She was sold to Sea Lion Park in 1902 which was then sold to new owners who turned it into Luna Park. After they decided they could no longer handle her, the owners of Luna Park announced they would hang Topsy, leading to an outcry by the ASPCA. The owners then decided they would electrocute the elephant, with a backup plan of feeding her cyanide-laced carrots and strangling her with a cable.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsAs an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsAlice GuyGermaine SerandYvonne SerandThe first film directed by a female director, "The Cabbage Fairy" presents a brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently moving through the cabbages and using of lovely gestures, she takes one baby out of there, then makes more magic and delivers two more.
- DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFrançois ClercBenoît DuvalAn impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- DirectorDave FleischerAn animated chorus line of treats dances down a theater aisle while singing a jingle that encourages the audience to visit the concession stand.
- DirectorLee SavageIt features the Disney character Mickey Mouse being shipped to Vietnam during the war. Moments after arriving, he is shot dead.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterA great feature of the Pan-American Exposition, as unanimously conceded by all visitors, was the electric illumination of the Exposition grounds at night. After a great deal of experimenting and patience, we succeeded in securing an excellent picture of the buildings at the Pan-American as they appeared when lighted up at night. All the buildings from the Temple of Music to the Electric Tower are shown, including the Electric Tower itself. The emotional and sensational effects were also secured by starting the panoramic view by daylight and revolving the camera until the Electric Tower forms the center of the field of the lens. Our camera was then stopped and the position held until night, when we photographed the coming up of the lights, an event which was deemed by all to be a great emotional climax to the Pan-American Exposition. Immediately the lights are burning to their fullest brilliancy, the camera is againt set in motion and revolved until the Temple of Music is reached. The motion is then reversed and the camera goes back until it rests on the Electric Tower, thus supplying the climax to the picture. The great searchlights of the Tower are being worked during the entire time the picture is being exposed, and the effect is startling. This picture is pronounced by the photographic profession to be a marvel of photography.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorHollis FramptonStarsWill FallerAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
- DirectorNedeljko DragicA short animated film in which an old man struggles to get off a toilet.
- StarsWilliam McKinleyJoseph Garney CannonJohn DalzellShort film which documents William McKinley's presidential inauguration.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreMrs. Auguste LumiereAndrée LumièreAs part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaA short film originally intended to be a commercial for Schwechater Beer, but along the way it morphed into something completely different.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterTheodore Roosevelt merrily kills a mountain lion in Colorado while his press agent and photographer record the event for posterity.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsEdward BouldenA woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.
- DirectorWilliam HeiseStarsMay IrwinJohn C. RiceIn a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.
- DirectorZlatko GrgicA couple of lovers in a passionate embrace. Camera panning back, discloses a third person, a policeman, who gets himself involved in the action.
- DirectorAbraham ZapruderStarsCharles BrehmHoward BrennanJohn ConnallyThe home movie footage shot by Abraham Zapruder that caught the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
- DirectorDerek PhillipsAn animated short in which notes are dropped from above and in turn read and followed by the people who receive them below.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaAn early experimental short film produced by Peter Kubelka.
- DirectorMarv NewlandBambi is contentedly nibbling the grass, seemingly unaware of his impending encounter with Godzilla. What will happen when the two finally meet?
- DirectorStan BrakhageStan Brakhage's final film, made shortly before his death by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the emulsion.
- DirectorStandish LawderAn experimental short in which different color film runs through a projector.
- DirectorFrederick S. ArmitageTime-lapse photography is used to show the manual dismantling and demolition of New York's Star Theatre over a period of about 30 days.
- DirectorOtto MuehlA subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.
- DirectorTheodore CaseEarl I. SponableStarsGus VisserGus Visser performs part of his vaudeville act, appearing on the stage holding a white duck. Gus sings the song, "Ma (He's Making Eyes At Me)", and soon the duck begins to accompany him by quacking.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.
- StarsGeorge DeweyJohn Davis LongWilliam McKinleyShort film which documents President McKinley's escort to the Capitol building.
- DirectorFred MogubgubAn experimental short film displaying various commercial products while the Battle Hymn of the Republic is heard.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsCharles ManleyCountry rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
- DirectorRobert BreerAbstract figures rapidly shape-shift until finally settling into the form of a man and his dog, but only for a moment.
- DirectorBruce BaillieStarsElla FitzgeraldA 3 minute pan to the left.
- DirectorBorivoj Dovnikovic-BordoA political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.
- DirectorRichard Preston
- DirectorStan BrakhageA lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
- DirectorRobert BreerRob Breer blazing the trail.
- DirectorGeorge DunningThis short uses an experimental form to illustrate a poem by Andrew Marvell.
- DirectorJean-Paul Vroom
- DirectorNorman McLarenAn experimental film of dots animated by being drawn directly on filmstock.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA short experimental film which combines shapes and colors with words from the "Hymn to the Night" by Friedrich Philipp Von Hardenberg.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which captures various images and light.
- DirectorDan McLaughlinA short film in which 3,000 years of art are shown in 3 minutes while the score Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is played.
- DirectorJosef BerneStarsDuke EllingtonRay NanceRex StewartDuke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsIona BartekQuay BartekRefracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There's a dog, a swing, a picket fence, a Big Wheels trike. The grass is green and lush. A soundtrack mixes a chorus, swelling strings, and a child vocalizing. The effect is to idealize the images.
- DirectorEmile van MoerkerkenAn experimental short film derived from photographs taken in the early 1930s.
- DirectorKenneth AngerA man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover".
- DirectorJean-Claude GuiguetStarsPhilippe GarzianoThomas BadekEmmanuel BolèveA young French man bicycles across town after an evening out to spend the night with his boyfriend.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsZizi PapillonIn this brief "trick film" two clowns assemble an enormous magic lantern which first projects moving images, then emits dancing girls.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
- DirectorNorman McLarenAn experimental animated short in which images are drawn directly onto the film using a pen.
- DirectorKaren JohnsonThis closeup of the peeling, sectioning, licking, and eating of a navel orange becomes a sensuous, sexual experience that disturbs and attracts by the ambivalence of its images; erotic associations constantly impinge.
- DirectorHans RichterBlack and white rectangular images fade in and out of the screen. Their movement make them sometimes look like they're panning from side to side. Their movement also make the black and white individually change from foreground to background and visa versa.
- DirectorWilhelm FreddieJørgen RoosStarsAgnete ChristensenWilhelm FreddieJørgen RoosAn experimental animated short film by Jørgen Roos and surrealist painter Wilhelm Freddie.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStan Brakhage's artistic view of the cosmos.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film by Stan Brakhage in which light, black and white, and color images are contrasted.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which displays various lights and colors.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal. Often we see only the outline of objects against a black background. Black and green are occasionally joined by fragments of orange or of white and blue. The objects in the frame don't move but they are quickly replaced by another collage, giving the feel of rapid motion. Each collage is crisp, its lines etched against the background of black and later of white. Whitman anyone, or Hieronymus Bosch? Although there is no soundtrack, the rapidity of changing images and colors suggests a riot.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the shadows? Something green is out of focus. The light flashes, and the screen goes dark from time to time. We look up close at the bark of trees. Is the god of the forest to be seen?
- DirectorKen KnowltonLillian SchwartzA colorful abstract computer animated short film created by Ken Knowlton and Lillian F. Schwartz.
- DirectorJeffrey Noyes ScherAn animated short film created by the artist Jeff Scher.
- DirectorKurt KrenAn experimental film shot in five broken sequences from the window in a café.
- DirectorKurt KrenStarsUrsula HolzbauerOtto MuehlA subversive and experimental film from director Kurt Kren.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsMarie MurrayAn engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they get on board, and they enjoy the sights from the platform on the last car. The workers on the train are eager to help, and they make some special arrangements for the couple.
- DirectorNorman McLarenAn illustration of a traditional French Canadian song in the form of progressing cutouts and still pictures.
- DirectorBruce ConnerExperimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
- DirectorPeter von Gunten
- DirectorJohn LasseterA snow globe snowman wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a hot party, but the glass dome that surrounds him gets in his way, despite all his efforts.
- DirectorShelby Kennedy
- A short film which documents the 4 minute train ride from London to Brighton.
- DirectorYôji KuriStarsH. MizushimaKyôko KishidaA lovelorn woman obsessively pursues a man wherever he goes.
- DirectorHollis FramptonAn experimental short film from the Gates of Death series made by Hollis Frampton.