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- DirectorLouis LumièreOutdoors, with a nondescript building in the background, four men stand, each holding the corner of a blanket stretched parallel to the ground. They wear the clothes of laborers. By the back corner on our left stands a uniformed man who seems in charge. A sixth man stands back from the blanket about six paces; he runs forward and takes a leap but stops at the edge of the blanket and is upbraided by the uniformed gent. The same thing happens a second time, but the next three times, he completes a flip, landing on his back in the middle of the blanket, and the four then boost him out toward the camera. The final time seems like it will be his last for awhile.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAnnie HartleyAdolphe Le PrinceJoseph WhitleyIn the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsGiuseppe Sacco AlbaneseOne of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsWilliam K.L. DicksonThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseTwo men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonAn athlete swings Indian clubs.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsHair CoatParts His HairLast HorseThree 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseA group of Sioux Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West exhibition demonstrates a dance called a "ghost dance".
- DirectorÉmile ReynaudPre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsStefano AccorsiMargherita BuyPierfrancesco FavinoThe confidences, hopes and disappointments of a group of friends.
- DirectorAlain BerlinerStarsGeorges Du FresneMichèle LaroqueJean-Philippe ÉcoffeyLudovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in his community when he dresses in girls clothes and insists he's a girl.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoAroldo TieriAfter their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.
- DirectorVittorio CaprioliGianni PucciniStarsFranca ValeriAldo GiuffrèPaola QuattriniTwo romantic episodes.
- DirectorFrançois RoussillonStarsTopi LehtipuuStéphanie d'OustracSandrine PiauInspired by a fable by La Fontaine, Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels. This passionate new production by Jose Montalvo, stunningly choreographed by Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, sets new standards in entertainment, charm and ingenuity. The sharp and spectacular multimedia staging does full justice to Rameau's dazzling burlesque, confirming Olivier Rouviere's statement that 'Les Paladins is the last laugh of a witty 77-year old composer'. Recorded live in 2004 at the Paris Theatre du Chatelet, both the virtuoso cast and Les Arts Florissants are in top form, clearly enjoying themselves in the masterful hands of William Christie.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsWalter ChiariEnrico Maria SalernoBarbara SteeleFeatures a series of brief comic shetches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
- DirectorMichael BurkeStarsEmile HirschRichard JenkinsTom GuiryThe film follows the story of Duncan, a fourteen-year-old misfit farm boy trying to fill the void and alleviate the numbness left by his mother's passing. Unable to let her go quite yet, Duncan mimics his dead mother. He talks in her voice at the dinner table and wears her fur coat to bed. Edgar, Duncan's distant sixty-year-old father, doesn't understand the strange manifestations of his son's mourning. Why can't Duncan grieve like a normal person? Macho mate Perry Foley, who has it physically even harder on his dad's farm, usually comforts Duncan and defends his 'wimpiness' to their cocky ruffian mates Travis, Scotty and Brent. But although clearly attracted to gentle Duncan himself, the socially unacceptable suggestion of 'sissy' homosexuality makes Perry over-react and turn on his friend.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsToni UcciVittorio CongiaAlicia BrandetThe film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòMay BrittFranca FaldiniA clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsVittorio GassmanSylva KoscinaUgo TognazziThe well-known financier Pierluigi Bruscatelli is arrested after having paid two fraudsters with a bill of 100 000 lire.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsFred BuscaglionePaolo PanelliScilla GabelLieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediSenta BergerMario AdorfAn American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint.
- DirectorAldo FabriziGiorgio PastinaMario SoldatiStarsTuri PandolfiniNatale CirinoAntonio Nicotra1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. 2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. 3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for - casting spells. 4) The discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
- DirectorPiero VivarelliStarsTotòRita PavoneFabrizio CapucciProfessor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 1960s does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoDelia ScalaBaron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsJean GabinGabriel GabrioSaturnin FabreA wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
- DirectorJames CruzeRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleLucien LittlefieldMary ThurmanA young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives marriage advice to his girlfriends.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsRenato RascelYvonne SansonGiulio StivalBased on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, THE OVERCOAT is the story of a poor city hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
- DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsJohn MalkovichWillem DafoeUdo KierThe filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
- DirectorFrancis VeberStarsThierry LhermitteJacques VilleretFrancis HusterA few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.
- DirectorSylvain FuséeStarsJérémie RenierAlexandre AstierManu PayetFrance 1550, Philibert learns from his dying father that his real father is Fulgence Bérendourt de Saint-Avoise. Philibert embarks on a journey to discover his origins.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyCharley ChaseWhen Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsRudolph ValentinoAgnes AyresRuth MillerA charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
- DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers 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.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFrançois ClercBenoît DuvalAn impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreP.J.C. JanssenThe photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreMrs. Auguste LumiereAndrée LumièreAs 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.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAntoine FéraudAntoine LumièreFélicien TreweyTwo men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRudolph ValentinoVilma BánkyGeorge FawcettThe son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsMrs. Auguste LumiereJeanne-Joséphine LumièreThree men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and fronts of four buildings, each four or five stories tall. It's a busy thoroughfare, with pedestrians walking in front of the buildings and crossing the boulevard between horse-drawn vehicles. A double-decker bus passes in front of us, pulled by two horses. Various tradesmen pass on wagons. One van passes.
- DirectorLouis LumièreTwo blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsPierre BellingardAndré HonnoratMrs. Auguste LumiereA short black and white film documenting a group of gentleman engaged in lawn bowling.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioA Muslim man on a roof repeatedly stands and then kneels to touch his head to the ground.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA train arrives at the Perrache station.
- In this short documentary a camera placed in the street captures the activity of the city.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioA short film of streetcars driving through Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York.
- DirectorLouis LumièreIn 1896, cinema pioneer Louis Lumière decided to register a man doing impressive tricks on his bicycle, closely observed by a curious crowd. Riding it backwards or standing on the top of the bike, sometimes in a clumsy way, other times like a master of this craft, the man seems to be enjoying himself while leaving the passers by truly wanting to know how he manages to perform all those tricks.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioWalking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by an officer. All are men, all are white, all look tall, all wear identical high-buttoned uniforms and badges and carry a nightstick. Almost all sport mustaches. Behind the police comes a horse-drawn carriage.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA short black and white film which documents an outdoor bowling game.
- DirectorLouis LumièreSeveral competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreAuguste 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 pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
- DirectorGabriel VeyreBlack and white film where a cow is lifted to a chip by its horns. Animal is in panic.
- DirectorLouis LumièreSeveral young boys are playing marbles on the streets, while several girls of about the same age watch their game.
- DirectorLouis LumièreCharles MoissonThe facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsAs 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.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA ship is launched into the water.
- A boat ride takes the passengers down a water chute. The boat is rowed to the dock, and the passengers disembark.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA short black and white film which captures the arrival of a train at the Perrache station.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioThe first moving shot, created by a stationary camera on a gondola in Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un Bateau, was filmed by Alexandre Promio for Louis Lumiere. Filming Locations: Venice, Veneto, Italy. Release Date: 1896 (France).
- In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and each wagon carries from two to eight firefighters. After the wagons pass, carts and pedestrians resume traffic on the street.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe fourth 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 encounters several other dwarf-like mountain-dwellers.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam HeiseStarsMay IrwinJohn C. RiceIn 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.
- DirectorLouis LumièreOne after the other, soldiers perform an aerobatic exercise which consists of standing on a horse. Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.
- Alpine shooters perform various boxing exercises.
- DirectorLouis LumièrePeople start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.
- The firefighters install a ladder then three of them climb it.
- DirectorAlexandre Promio
- DirectorAlexandre PromioA tracking shot of the golden horn in Istanbul seen from the gulf. Black and white film from 1897.
- DirectorAlexandre Promio
- DirectorAlexandre PromioFiremen ride with horses rapidly and a crowd gathers to see what is going on. Filmed in Dublin 1897.
- DirectorGabriel VeyreJapanese are filmed practicing kendo, the art of fencing with wooden samurai swords.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioThis black and white short film is the first known film about football match.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreWomen washing their clothes by the river.
- StarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerSuzanne LumièreA black and white short from the Lumière brothers documenting their children having lunch.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioCamel train shown passing by a Sphinx.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioA short black and white film of the busy Whitehall Street in New York.
- DirectorMarius SestierEccentric exercises of a skater with roller skates.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA short documentary with a fixed camera filming traffic on a street in Lyon.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsJeanne KoehlerMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerA short black and white film which documents a mother taking her children out for a walk.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
- DirectorAlexandre PromioOn board a ship, lines of laundry are taken down.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsAn astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- A guy displays his comical invention: he can saw wood while playing a trombone by attaching a saw to it.
- A black and white short film in which two woman, who are making mattresses, get into a fight.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the close left to the camera. A few toddlers also follow in the same orderly line, along their nurses. The scene empties. In the last three seconds, a toddler presumed escaping from the scene to the left re-enters the scene, and walks back to the right by himself.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerA short black and white film which documents the activities of a little girl and her cat.