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Various – The Movies Begin Vol. 1: The Great Train Robbery and Other Primary Works (1880 – 1910)

The Movies Begin

The Great Train Robbery & Other Primary Works
Directors: Edweard Muybridge, Edwin S. Porter, Thomas Edison
Country: (various)
Year: 1893-1907
This survey of the cinema’s earliest landmarks and rarities features the 1877 motion studies of Edward Muybridge, the early productions of Thomas Edison’s Black Maria, the actualites of Louis Lumiére, George Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon (1902), and climaxes with the premiere of a mint-condition print of Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, complete with the authentic hand-tinting witnessed by audiences of 1903.
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The genesis of the motion picture medium is vividly recreated in this unprecedented collection of the cinema’s formative works. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.

An animated rendering of Eadweard Muybridge’s primitive motion studies (1877-85) begins the program, immediately defining the compound appeal of cinema as both a scientific marvel and sensational popular entertainment.

This is followed by the works of Louis and Auguste Lumière, who offer cinematic glimpses of such commonplace sights as children quarreling, a lion in a zoo or the feeding of poultry.

As for more obvious fictions there is the myth-making of Edwin S. Porter’s seminal The Great Train Robbery (1903) and the pictorial splendor of Ferdinand Zecca’s The Golden Beetle (1907), both presented in mint condition prints with the original hand-tinting, as well as Georges Méliês’s extravagant A Trip To The Moon (1902, complete with narration penned by the director, intended to accompany its performance).

The low art origins of the cinema are represented in some of Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscopes (1894-97, serpentine dances, a cockfight, a bedroom full of seminary girls engaged in a pillow fight and the notorious first screen kiss) and a collection of mechanized peep shows from American Mutoscope and Biograph, whose burlesque origins are free from social or aesthetic pretense, being designed solely for titillation and amusement. When social crusaders spoke of the evils of film, this is what they had in mind.

Includes:
Homage To Eadweard Muybridge (1880s)

Edison Shorts (1894-1897)
The Kiss (1896)
Serpentine Dances (1895)
Sandow (Strong Man) (1894)
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)
Cock Fight (1896)
The Barber Shop (1894)
Feeding The Doves (1896)
Seminary Girls (1897)

Lumière Films (1895-96)
Swimming In The Sea
Children Digging For Clams
Loading A Boiler
Dragoons Crossing The Sâone
Promenade Of Ostriches
Childish Quarrel
Lion, London Zoological Garden
Photograph
Transformation By Hats
Carmaux: Drawing Out The Coke
Poultry-Yard
Arab Cortege, Geneva
New York: Brooklyn Bridge
New York: Broadway and Union Square
Policeman’s Parade, Chicago

A Trip To The Moon (1902)

Actualities
President McKinley At Home (1897)
Packtrain On Chilkoot Pass (1898)
Skyscrapers Of New York City (1903)
The Georgetown Loop (1903)
San Francisco: Aftermath Of Earthquake (1906)
The Dog And His Various Merits (1908)
Moscow Clad In Snow (1908)
Airplane Flight And Crash (1910)

Blue Movies
Fire In A Burlesque Theatre (1908)
Airy Fairy Lilian Tries On Her New Corsets (1908)
From Show Girl To Burlesque Queen (1908)
Troubles Of A Manager Of A Burlesque Show (1908)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Whole Dam Family And The Dam Dog (1905)
The Golden Beetle (1907)

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