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.

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)