With
the aim of giving wider access to just some of the incredible film
material held by the National Film and Television Archive, the British
Film Institute has compiled two volumes of short films made around
the turn of the century.
Includes:
Lumiere: Sortie d'usine
(1895) Repas de Bébé (1895), Demolition d'un mur (1896), Le jardinier
et le petit espiegle (1896), Arrivée des Congressistes à Neuville-sur-Saône
(1895), Arrivée d'un train en gare à La Ciotat (1895), Partie d'écarte
(1895), Barque sortant du port (1895), Leaving Jerusalem by Railway
(1896), Bataille de Boules de Neige (1896), Pompiers à Lyon (c1896),
Niagara (1897), Spanish Bullfight (1900).
Méliès : Voyage à travers
l'impossible (1904). Acres: Rough Sea at Dover (1895).
R.W. Paul: Come Along
Do! (1898), The Derby (1896), The Countryman and the Cinematograph
(1901), A Chess Dispute (1903), Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903),
Buy Your Own Cherries (1904), The ( ?) Motorist (1906).
George Albert Smith: The
Miller and the Sweep (1898), The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), Let
Me Dream Again (1900), Grandma's Reading Glass (1900), As Seen Through
a Telescope (1900), Sick Kitten (1903).
Bamforth and Co Ltd.:
The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), Ladies Skirts Nailed to a Fence (c1900),
The Biter Bit (1900), The Rough Sea (c1900).
Williamson's Kinematograph
Co. Ltd.: Attack on a China Mission (1900), The Big Swallow (1901?),
Stop Thief! (1901) Firel (1901), An Interesting Story (1905),
Hepworth Manufacturing
Co.: How it Feels to Be Run Over (1900), Explosion of a Motor Car
(1900), Rescued by Rover (1905), The Other Side of the Hedge (1905),
That Fatal Sneeze (1907).
Cricks and Martin: A Visit
to Peek Frean's and Co.'s Biscuit Works (1906).
Kineto Production Co.:
A Day in the Life of a Coalminer (1910).
Pathé Frères: Par le
trou de serrure (1901), Histoire d'un crime (1901), Ali Baba et
les quarantes voleurs (1905), Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse (1906),
Le cheval emballé (1907), The Physician of the Castle (1908), Magic
Bricks (1908).
Edison Manufacturing
Co: Dewar's - It's Scotch (1898), The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903), The
Great Train Robbery (1903), The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906).
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