All Shorts on iCM Lists
by mymovieslists | created - 10 Mar 2012 | updated - 15 Jan 2015 | PublicI'm no longer sorting this list each time I update it because it takes too long to reorder lists on IMDb.
However, the iCM list is still sorted by runtime.
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1. Awakening of Rip (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Drama, Short
The 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.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 624
2. Eye Myth (1977)
1 min | Short
After 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... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,113
3. Newark Athlete (1891)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
An athlete swings Indian clubs.
Director: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 1,814
4. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Music
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 2,559
5. Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Drama, Short
The 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.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 554
6. Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Fantasy
The 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.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 544
7. Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Fantasy
The 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.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 549
8. Rip's Toast (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Drama, Short
The 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.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 566
9. Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Fantasy
The 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.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 542
10. Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Drama, Short
The 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.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 571
11. Night Music (1986)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 931
12. Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
"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, ... See full summary »
Director: James H. White | Star: Thomas A. Edison
Votes: 719
13. A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
TV-Y | 6 min | Animation, Short
Displays 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.
Directors: Ed Catmull, Frederic Parke | Star: Ed Catmull
Votes: 457
14. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Annabelle (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.
Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Star: Annabelle Moore
Votes: 2,398
15. Blacksmith Scene (1893)
Unrated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Stars: Charles Kayser, John Ott
Votes: 2,761
16. Circular Panorama of Electric Tower (1901)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 474
17. Demolition of a Wall (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Auguste 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lumière | Star: Auguste Lumière
Votes: 2,766
18. Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Carl Goliath, Topsy
Votes: 1,924
19. The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin (1896)
1 min | Short, Horror
As 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.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 2,048
20. La fée aux choux (1896)
1 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Alice Guy, Germaine Serand, Yvonne Serand
Votes: 1,393
21. Leaving the Factory (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Workers 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.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 7,540
22. The Arrival of a Train (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
A train arrives at La Ciotat station.
Directors: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière | Stars: Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière
Votes: 12,855
23. The Waterer Watered (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: François Clerc, Benoît Duval
Votes: 5,832
24. Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
1 min | Animation, Short, Family
An animated chorus line of treats dances down a theater aisle while singing a jingle that encourages the audience to visit the concession stand.
Director: Dave Fleischer
Votes: 771
25. Mickey Mouse in Vietnam (1969)
Not Rated | 1 min | Animation, Short, War
It features the Disney character Mickey Mouse being shipped to Vietnam during the war. Moments after arriving, he is shot dead.
Director: Lee Savage
Votes: 620
26. Pan-American Exposition by Night (1901)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 588
27. Pan 0 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 373
28. Pan 1 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 372
29. Pan 3 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 362
30. Pan 4 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 320
31. Pan 697 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 253
32. Pan 698 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 265
33. Pan 699 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Star: Will Faller
Votes: 257
34. Pan 700 (1974)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 247
35. Per Aspera Ad Astra (1969)
1 min | Animation, Short
A short animated film in which an old man struggles to get off a toilet.
Director: Nedeljko Dragic
Votes: 211
36. President McKinley Taking the Oath (1901)
1 min | Documentary, Short, News
Short film which documents William McKinley's presidential inauguration.
Stars: William McKinley, Joseph Garney Cannon, John Dalzell, George Dewey
Votes: 522
37. Rage Net (1988)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 785
38. Baby's Meal (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
As 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.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Auguste Lumière, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Andrée Lumière
Votes: 3,511
39. Schwechater (1958)
1 min | Short
A short film originally intended to be a commercial for Schwechater Beer, but along the way it morphed into something completely different.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 858
40. Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (1901)
1 min | Short, Comedy
Theodore Roosevelt merrily kills a mountain lion in Colorado while his press agent and photographer record the event for posterity.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 494
41. The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
Unrated | 1 min | Comedy, Short
A 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.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Star: Edward Boulden
Votes: 1,182
42. The Kiss (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Romance
In 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.
Director: William Heise | Stars: May Irwin, John C. Rice
Votes: 3,669
43. Make Love, Not War (1971)
1 min | Animation, Short
A couple of lovers in a passionate embrace. Camera panning back, discloses a third person, a policeman, who gets himself involved in the action.
Director: Zlatko Grgic
Votes: 67
44. Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1970)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
The home movie footage shot by Abraham Zapruder that caught the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Director: Abraham Zapruder | Stars: Charles Brehm, Howard Brennan, John Connally, Nellie Connally
Votes: 2,328
45. A Note from Above (1969)
2 min | Animation, Short
An animated short in which notes are dropped from above and in turn read and followed by the people who receive them below.
Director: Derek Phillips
Votes: 91
46. Adebar (1957)
2 min | Short
An early experimental short film produced by Peter Kubelka.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 732
47. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
Not Rated | 2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bambi is contentedly nibbling the grass, seemingly unaware of his impending encounter with Godzilla. What will happen when the two finally meet?
Director: Marv Newland
Votes: 6,468
48. Chinese Series (2003)
2 min | Short, Biography
Stan 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.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 486
49. Color Film (1971)
2 min | Short
An experimental short in which different color film runs through a projector.
Director: Standish Lawder
Votes: 230
50. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
Unrated | 2 min | Documentary, Short
Time-lapse photography is used to show the manual dismantling and demolition of New York's Star Theatre over a period of about 30 days.
Director: Frederick S. Armitage
Votes: 1,095
51. Der geile Wotan (1971)
2 min | Short, Adult
A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.
Director: Otto Muehl
Votes: 226
52. Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy
Gus 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.
Directors: Theodore Case, Earl I. Sponable | Star: Gus Visser
Votes: 531
53. Persian Series #1 (1999)
2 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 414
54. Persian Series #2 (1999)
2 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 394
55. Persian Series #3 (1999)
2 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 397
56. President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol (1901)
2 min | Documentary, Short, News
Short film which documents President McKinley's escort to the Capitol building.
Stars: George Dewey, John Davis Long, William McKinley, Nelson Appleton Miles
Votes: 440
57. The Great Society (1967)
2 min | Short
An experimental short film displaying various commercial products while the Battle Hymn of the Republic is heard.
Director: Fred Mogubgub
Votes: 215
58. Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902)
Not Rated | 2 min | Comedy, Short
Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Star: Charles Manley
Votes: 801
59. A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1960)
3 min | Animation, Short
Abstract figures rapidly shape-shift until finally settling into the form of a man and his dog, but only for a moment.
Director: Robert Breer
Votes: 351
60. All My Life (1966)
G | 3 min | Short, Music
A 3 minute pan to the left.
Director: Bruce Baillie | Star: Ella Fitzgerald
Votes: 745
61. Untitled (1964)
3 min | Animation, Short
A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.
Director: Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo
Votes: 166
63. Black Ice (1994)
3 min | Short
A lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,088
64. Blazes (1961)
3 min | Animation, Short
Rob Breer blazing the trail.
Director: Robert Breer
Votes: 309
65. Damon the Mower (1972)
3 min | Animation, Short
This short uses an experimental form to illustrate a poem by Andrew Marvell.
Director: George Dunning
Votes: 283
67. Dots (1940)
3 min | Short, Animation
An experimental film of dots animated by being drawn directly on filmstock.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,028
68. First Hymn to the Night - Novalis (1994)
3 min | Short
A short experimental film which combines shapes and colors with words from the "Hymn to the Night" by Friedrich Philipp Von Hardenberg.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 347
69. Glaze of Cathexis (1990)
3 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which captures various images and light.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 736
70. God is Dog Spelled Backwards (1967)
3 min | Short
A short film in which 3,000 years of art are shown in 3 minutes while the score Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is played.
Director: Dan McLaughlin
Votes: 171
71. Jam Session (1942)
3 min | Short, Music
Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.
Director: Josef Berne | Stars: Duke Ellington, Ray Nance, Rex Stewart, Ben Webster
Votes: 358
72. Kindering (1987)
3 min | Short
Refracted 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Iona Bartek, Quay Bartek
Votes: 668
73. Cuckoo Waltz (1955)
3 min | Short
An experimental short film derived from photographs taken in the early 1930s.
Director: Emile van Moerkerken
Votes: 195
74. Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)
3 min | Short, Music
A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover".
Director: Kenneth Anger
Votes: 1,739
75.
Love Reinvented (1996– )
Episode:
Une nuit ordinaire
(1996)
Unrated | 6 min | Drama, Comedy
A young French man bicycles across town after an evening out to spend the night with his boyfriend.
Director: Jean-Claude Guiguet | Stars: Philippe Garziano, Thomas Badek, Emmanuel Bolève, Mireille Chandelier
Votes: 205
76. The Magic Lantern (1903)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
In this brief "trick film" two clowns assemble an enormous magic lantern which first projects moving images, then emits dancing girls.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Zizi Papillon
Votes: 810
77. The Music Lover (1903)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,938
78. L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (1901)
TV-14 | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 3,174
79. Loops (1940)
3 min | Short, Animation
An experimental animated short in which images are drawn directly onto the film using a pen.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 481
80. Orange (1970)
3 min | Short
This 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.
Director: Karen Johnson
Votes: 90
81. Rhythmus 21 (1921)
3 min | Animation, Short
Black 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Richter
Votes: 1,451
82. Eaten Horizonts (1950)
4 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
An experimental animated short film by Jørgen Roos and surrealist painter Wilhelm Freddie.
Directors: Wilhelm Freddie, Jørgen Roos | Stars: Agnete Christensen, Wilhelm Freddie, Jørgen Roos
Votes: 333
83. Stellar (1993)
G | 3 min | Short
Stan Brakhage's artistic view of the cosmos.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 939
84. Study in Color and Black and White (1993)
3 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage in which light, black and white, and color images are contrasted.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 596
85. The Dark Tower (1999)
3 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which displays various lights and colors.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 712
86. The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981)
G | 3 min | Short
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 871
87. The Wold Shadow (1977)
3 min | Short
A 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... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 779
88. UFO's (1972)
Not Rated | 3 min | Animation, Short
A colorful abstract computer animated short film created by Ken Knowlton and Lillian F. Schwartz.
Directors: Ken Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz
Votes: 224
89. Yours (1998)
3 min | Animation, Short
An animated short film created by the artist Jeff Scher.
Director: Jeffrey Noyes Scher
Votes: 231
91. 6/64: Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl) (1964)
4 min | Short, Horror
A subversive and experimental film from director Kurt Kren.
Director: Kurt Kren | Stars: Ursula Holzbauer, Otto Muehl
Votes: 345
92. A Romance of the Rail (1903)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
An 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Star: Marie Murray
Votes: 390
93. C'est l'aviron (1944)
4 min | Short, Animation
An illustration of a traditional French Canadian song in the form of progressing cutouts and still pictures.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 487
94. Cosmic Ray (1962)
4 min | Short
Experimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
Director: Bruce Conner
Votes: 640
95. On a Most Beautiful Meadow (1969)
4 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Peter von Gunten
Votes: 30
96. Knick Knack (1989)
G | 4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A 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.
Director: John Lasseter
Votes: 15,259
98. London to Brighton in Four Minutes (1952 TV Short)
4 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents the 4 minute train ride from London to Brighton.
Votes: 200
99. Love (1964)
4 min | Animation, Short
A lovelorn woman obsessively pursues a man wherever he goes.
Director: Yôji Kuri | Stars: H. Mizushima, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 267
100. Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0 (1976)
4 min | Short
An experimental short film from the Gates of Death series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 234
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