1890's films I have seen
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1. London's Trafalgar Square (1890)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A shot of Trafalgar Square.
Directors: William Carr Crofts, Wordsworth Donisthorpe
Votes: 916
2. Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Star: Giuseppe Sacco Albanese
Votes: 1,648
3. Dickson Greeting (1891)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 1,569
4. 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: 2,771
5. 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: 2,563
6. Buffalo Dance (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short, Western
Three Sioux Indians perform a 'buffalo dance', while two others use drums to supply a rhythm. The three dancers move around in a circle as they perform the various actions that are part of the dance.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Stars: Hair Coat, Parts His Hair, Last Horse
Votes: 1,035
7. Sandow: The Strong Man (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Eugen Sandow
Votes: 1,233
8. The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Action, Comedy
"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Star: Henry Welton
Votes: 1,441
9. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Fred Ott
Votes: 2,194
10. 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: 5,845
11. 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: 7,555
12. A Nightmare (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Horror
In this fantastic scene, a man who is eager to retire has a difficult time finding peace, as his nocturnal illusions come to life out of thin air.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,990
13. 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: 2,057
14. 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: 3,676
15. The House of the Devil (1896)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Horror
With the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Jules-Eugène Legris, Georges Méliès
Votes: 3,987
16. 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: 12,875
17. Card Party (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Biography
In what is considered to be the first remake in the history of cinema, the grand French director, Georges Méliès, directs his very first short film, influenced by the Lumière Brothers' original story in "Partie d'écarté (1896)".
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Octavie Huvier, Gaston Méliès, Georges Méliès, Georgette Méliès
Votes: 1,132
18. Une nuit terrible (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,527
19. A Morning Bath (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
A woman is washing an infant child. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming water.
Director: James H. White
Votes: 545
20. The Haunted Castle (1897)
1 min | Short, Horror
A King (played by Georges Méliès) shows up at his new castle where he is haunted.
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 515
21. New Pillow Fight (1897)
Comedy, Short
This is a very amusing scene, showing three little girls indulging in a pillow fight. The fight grows fast and furious until at length the feathers fly all around.
Stars: Emily Lowry, Marguerite Sessler
Votes: 66
22. The Bewitched Inn (1897)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
At a solitary cheap inn, a distant traveller overcome with fatigue has a close encounter with the supernatural.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,219
23. The Haunted Castle (1897)
1 min | Short, Horror
A King (played by Georges Méliès) shows up at his new castle where he is haunted.
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 515
24. The X-Ray Fiend (1897)
TV-PG | 1 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Votes: 1,049
25. The Surrender of Tournavos (1897)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, War
In one of his numerous reconstructed newsreels, the indefatigable French director, Georges Méliès, reenacts a fictional scene taking place in a fort at Tyrnavos during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 573
26. After the Ball, the Bath (1897)
1 min | Short
The first film to ever show a nudity scene on screen is a simple presentation of a servant preparing a bath for another woman.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jeanne Brady, Jehanne d'Alcy
Votes: 1,490
27. Entre Calais et Douvres (1897)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Using the same rocking effect previously employed in "Combat naval en Grèce (1897)", the director Georges Méliès recreates the illusion of a small ship in a tempest.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Joseph Grapinet, Georges Méliès, Georgette Méliès
Votes: 609
28. The Astronomer's Dream; or, the Man in the Moon (1898)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 4,730
29. Four Heads Are Better Than One (1898)
TV-PG | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 4,019
30. Divers at Work on the Wreck of the 'Maine' (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Drama, News
The battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbor during the Spanish-American War.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 678
31. Panorama from Top of a Moving Train (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 622
32. Adventures of William Tell (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Atop a wonderful central pedestal, a happy clown puts the finishing touches on a William Tell's incomplete model, assembling the mannequin limb by limb with the intention of shooting a target off of its head with a potent crossbow.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 604
33. Little Mischief (1898)
Short, Comedy
Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with his hand. The tickling continues now on ... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton
Votes: 151
34. Santa Claus (1898)
1 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
Brother and sister are sent to bed on Christmas Eve, and while they are asleep, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and fills their waiting stockings with toys.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Dorothy Smith, Harold Smith
Votes: 1,067
35. The Magician (1898)
1 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
In a traditional "magician" attire, the wizard of illusion and jump cuts, Georges Méliès, says the magic words and conjures up wonders from a plain wooden box.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 987
36. The Famous Box Trick (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Fantasy
From the depths of a plain wooden box, a skilful conjurer materializes a lively boy in a clown suit. Next, he takes a heavy battle-axe. What are his intentions?
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 660
37. The Temptation of St. Anthony (1898)
1 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
The pious St. Anthony is tormented by visions of seductive women.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 997
38. Summoning the Spirits (1899)
1 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A magician presents a wreath which in turn transforms into other things.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 484
39. La pyramide de Triboulet (1899)
1 min | Short
Men are magically created and transformed in order to create a human pyramid.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 285
40. A Mysterious Portrait (1899)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
A magician has a picture frame set up. He then proceeds to make a second version of himself appear inside it.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 598
41. L'affaire Dreyfus (1899)
13 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Dramatized re-enactments of the events of the Dreyfus-affair from 1894 to 1899.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 706
42. A Dinner Under Difficulties (1899)
Short, Fantasy
Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the maid. Suddenly the legs of the table are ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 54
43. Devil's Island - Within the Palisade (1899)
1 min | Short
Former Captain Alfred Dreyfus paces in his prison, in a dramatization of the events surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, an actual historic event.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 270
44. Haggard's She: The Pillar of Fire (1899)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 968
45. Cinderella (1899)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama, Family
A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle Barral, Bleuette Bernon, Carmelli, Jehanne d'Alcy
Votes: 1,808
46. Dreyfus Put in Irons (1899)
1 min | Short, Biography
Captain Dreyfus is placed in leg irons as a dramatization of the events surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, an actual historic event.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 262
47. Dreyfus Leaving the Lycée for Jail (1899)
1 min | Short, Drama, History
One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus), a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still playing out as the series was being filmed.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 58
48. Dreyfus Meets His Wife at Rennes (1899)
1 min | Short
Captain Dreyfus is reunited with his wife after being falsely imprisoned.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 268
49. A Turn of the Century Illusionist (1899)
1 min | Short, Fantasy
A magician and his assistant perform numerous magic acts.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,095
50. Dreyfus Court Martial - Arrest of Dreyfus (1899)
1 min | Short, Drama, History
Dictation of the statement of Captain Dreyfus in reference to the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that rocked France from 1894 to 1906.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 248
51. The Sign of the Cross (1899)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,351
52. Le chevalier mystère (1899)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Fantasy
The conjurer appears at a blackboard and shows the head of a knight on it. He seizes the picture of the head, removes it from the blackboard, and it turns into life and bows and smiles ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 579
53. Suicide of Colonel Henry (1899)
1 min | Short
Major Hubert-Joseph Henry commits suicide, in a dramatization of the events surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, an actual historic event.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 299
54. The Court Martial at Rennes (1899)
2 min | Short
In this, the 10th episodes of The Dreyfus Affair docudrama, court-martial proceedings continue. Cross-questioning occurs, and Captain Dreyfus argues with the judges.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 245
55. The Attempt Against the Life of Maitre Labori (1899)
1 min | Short
A dramatization of a real event, in which Fernand Labori, defense lawyer for Captain Dreyfus in the Dreyfus Affair, was shot and wounded in the back by an unknown assailant who escaped.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 265
56. The Fight of Reporters at the Lycée (1899)
1 min | Short
A fight breaks out between reporters, as a dramatization of the events surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, an actual historic event.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 265
57. Landing of Dreyfus at Quiberon (1899)
1 min | Short
Captain Dreyfus gets off the ship at Quiberon during the Dreyfus Affair, an actual historic event.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 275
58. Matches: An Appeal (1899)
1 min | Animation, Short
A stop-motion match makes a written appeal to the audience, asking them to send money that will go to matches for British soldiers fighting overseas.
Director: Arthur Melbourne Cooper
Votes: 161
59. The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, History
This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Director: Alfred Clark | Stars: Robert Thomae, Mrs. Robert L. Thomas
Votes: 2,558
60. Peeping Tom (1897)
2 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A hotel porter decides to spy on what his guests are doing in their rooms. But as all Peeping Toms are caught eventually, this one gets what he deserves. And it served him right.
Votes: 263
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