1901 | Kansas Saloon Smashers | American | Unknown | nan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Saloon_Smashers | A bartender is working at a saloon, serving drinks to customers. After he fills a stereotypically Irish man's bucket with beer, Carrie Nation and her followers burst inside. They assault the Irish man, pulling his hat over his eyes and then dumping the beer over his head. The group then begin wrecki… |
1901 | Love by the Light of the Moon | American | Unknown | nan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_by_the_Light_of_the_Moon | The moon, painted with a smiling face hangs over a park at night. A young couple walking past a fence learn on a railing and look up. The moon smiles. They embrace, and the moon's smile gets bigger. They then sit down on a bench by a tree. The moon's view is blocked, causing him to frown. In the las… |
1901 | The Martyred Presidents | American | Unknown | nan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martyred_Presidents | The film, just over a minute long, is composed of two shots. In the first, a girl sits at the base of an altar or tomb, her face hidden from the camera. At the center of the altar, a viewing portal displays the portraits of three U.S. Presidents—Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinl… |
1901 | Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King | American | Unknown | nan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrible_Teddy,_the_Grizzly_King | Lasting just 61 seconds and consisting of two shots, the first shot is set in a wood during winter. The actor representing then vice-president Theodore Roosevelt enthusiastically hurries down a hillside towards a tree in the foreground. He falls once, but rights himself and cocks his rifle. Two othe… |
1902 | Jack and the Beanstalk | American | George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter | nan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk_(1902_film) | The earliest known adaptation of the classic fairytale, this films shows Jack trading his cow for the beans, his mother forcing him to drop them in the front yard, and beig forced upstairs. As he sleeps, Jack is visited by a fairy who shows him glimpses of what will await him when he ascends the bea … |
1903 | Alice in Wonderland | American | Cecil Hepworth | May Clark | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1903_film) | Alice follows a large white rabbit down a "Rabbit-hole". She finds a tiny door. When she finds a bottle labeled "Drink me", she does, and shrinks, but not enough to pass through the door. She then eats something labeled "Eat me" and grows larger. She finds a fan when enables her to shrink enough to … |
1903 | The Great Train Robbery | American | Edwin S. Porter | nan | western | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(1903_film) | The film opens with two bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to have a train stopped and to transmit orders for the engineer to fill the locomotive's tender at the station's water tank. They then knock the operator out and tie him up. As the tr… |
1904 | The Suburbanite | American | Wallace McCutcheon | nan | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Suburbanite | The film is about a family who move to the suburbs, hoping for a quiet life. Things start to go wrong, and the wife gets violent and starts throwing crockery, leading to her arrest. |
1905 | The Little Train Robbery | American | Edwin Stanton Porter | nan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Train_Robbery | The opening scene shows the interior of the robbers' den. The walls are decorated with the portraits of notorious criminals and pictures illustrating the exploits of famous bandits. Some of the gang are lounging about, while others are reading novels and illustrated papers. Although of youthful appe… |
1905 | The Night Before Christmas | American | Edwin Stanton Porter | nan | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Before_Christmas_(1905_film) | Scenes are introduced using lines of the poem.[2] Santa Claus, played by Harry Eytinge, is shown feeding real reindeer[4] and finishes his work in the workshop. Meanwhile, the children of a city household hang their stockings and go to bed, but unable to sleep they engage in a pillow fight. Santa Cl… |