The Spark That Lit the Fire (1891–1920)

Featured Films:

000. Pre-Cinema

• The Horse in Motion (1878)
• Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
• Pauvre Pierrot (1892)

001. Edison Studios

• Monkeyshines (1889/1890)
• Dickson Greeting (1891)
• Blacksmith Scene (1893)
• The Barbershop (1894)
• Fire Rescue Scene (1894)
• Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
• Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894)
• Sandow (1894)
• Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
• The Kiss (1896)

002. The Lumière Brothers

• Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
• Baby’s Meal (1895)
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1896)
• The Waterer Watered (1895)
• Pistol Duel (1896)
• The Lover in the Sack (1897)
• The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1898)

003. Georges Méliès

• Part 1. Early Trick Films

• The Vanishing Lady (1896)
• The One-Man Band (1900)
• A Mysterious Portrait (1899)
• The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head (1900)
• The Man with the Rubber Head (1901)

• Part 2. The Dreyfus Affair (1899)
• Part 3. A Trip to the Moon (1902)

004. The Brighton School

• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)
• Attack on a China Mission (1900)
• Stop Thief! (1901)
• Fire! (1901)
• The Big Swallow (1901)
• Grandma’s Reading Glass (1900)
• The Sick Kitten (1903)
• Mary Jane’s Mishap (1903)

005. Edwin S. Porter

• Part 1. Life of an American Fireman (1903)

• Part 2. The Great Train Robbery (1903)

006. Rescued by Rover (Hepworth & Fitzhamon, 1905)

007. Early D. W. Griffith

• Part 1. The Lonely Villa (1909)
• Part 2. The Lonedale Operator (1911)
• Part 3. A Corner in Wheat (1909)

008. Falling Leaves (Guy-Blaché, 1912)

009. Suspense (Weber & Smalley, 1913)

010. Tillie’s Punctured Romance (Sennett, 1914)

011. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise (Le Bargy & Calmettes, 1908)

012. Albert Capellani

• Part 1. L’Arlésienne (1908)
• Part 2. L’Épouvante (1911)

013. Fantômas (Feuillade, 1913–1914)

• Part 1. In the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913)
• Part 2. Juve vs. Fantômas (1913)
• Part 3. The Dead Man Who Killed (1913)

014. The Abyss (Gad, 1910)

015. Atlantis (Blom, 1913)

016. Ingeborg Holm (Sjöström, 1913)

017. The Student of Prague (Rye, 1913)

018. Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Bauer, 1913)

019. Cabiria (Pastrone, 1914)

020. Raja Harishchandra (Phalke, 1913)

021. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)

022. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916)

023. Early Charlie Chaplin

• Part 1. The Masquerader (1914)
• Part 2. The Tramp (1915)
• Part 3. The Immigrant (1917)

024. The Cheat (DeMille, 1915)

025. Way Down East (Griffith, 1920)