1890-1919 Movies - Ranked

Submitted by jaimeblack on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 07:23
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  1. Almost Favorites
  2. The Inmigrant (1917/Charles Chaplin)
  3. One A.M. (1916/Charles Chaplin)
  4. Le voyage dans la lune (1902/Georges Méliès)
  5. Must see
  6. The Adventurer (1917/Charles Chaplin)
  7. L'Arroseur arrosé (1895/Louis Lumiére)
  8. Le bourreau turc (1904/Georges Méliès)
  9. Démolition d'un mur (1896/Louis Lumiére)
  10. Davey Jones' Locker (1900)
  11. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901/Frederick S. Armitage)
  12. Le diable noir (1905/Georges Méliès)
  13. Easy Street (1917/Charles Chaplin)
  14. La fée aux choux (1896/Alice Guy)
  15. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914/Winsor McCay)
  16. Der Golem (1915/Henrik Galeen/Paul Wegener)
  17. L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (1901/Georges Mélies)
  18. La lune à un mètre`(1898/Georges Méliès)
  19. Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora (1912/Wladyslaw Starewicz)
  20. The Pawnshop (1916/Charles Chaplin)
  21. The Rink (1916/Charles Chaplin)
  22. La Sortie des usines Lumiére (1895/Louis Lumiére)
  23. Un homme de tetes (1898/George Mélies)
  24. Watchable
  25. L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1896/Auguste Lumiére/Louis Lumiére)
  26. The Balancing Bluebottle (1908/F. Percy Smith)
  27. The Cure (1917/Charles Chaplin)
  28. Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer (1897/Louis Lumière)
  29. The Great Train Robbery (1903/Edwin S. Porter)
  30. The House with Closed Shutters (1910/D.W. Griffith)
  31. Santa Claus (1898/George Albert Smith)
  32. Der Student von Prag (1913/Stellan Rye/Paul Wegener)
  33. Le voyage à travers l'impossible (1904/Georges Méliès)
  34. Westinghouse Works (1904)
  35. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911/Winsor McCay/J. Stuart Blackton}
  36. Avoid if Possible
  37. Alice Guy tourne une phonoscène sur la théâtre de pose des Buttes-Chaumont (1905)
  38. Les débuts de Max au cinéma (1910/Louis J. Gasnier/Max Linder)
  39. Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin (1896/Georges Mélies)
  40. Frankenstein (1910/J. Searle Dawley)
  41. The Ghost Train (1901)
  42. Jeanne d'Arc (1900/Georges Méliès)
  43. The Kiss (1896/William Heise)
  44. Re Lear (1910/Gerolamo Lo Savio)
  45. The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918/Winsor McCay)
  46. Avoid at All Costs
  47. Swords and Hearts (1911/D.W. Griffith)
  48. The Worst Movie of the 1890-1919 period
  49. Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
Zacharyyy03/06/2012

Three things to check out:
-The films of Alice Guy Blanche, one of the first people, along with Georges Melies, to see the artistic potential of cinema.
-The J Stuart Blackton short "The Enchanted Drawing". Really neat and cute special effects work, even if fairly shabby, still good looking and entertaining today.
-The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots-- Only a teeny tiny film, but very striking for the simplicity of it.

This reminds me I really need to see more early films (1890-1929) so I can split my 1895-1929 into two lists (1920s, and 1895-1919)

jaimeblack03/07/2012

Thanks for the recommendations!