The Spark That Lit the Fire (1891–1921)

000 • Pre-Cinema

• View from the Window at Le Gras (Nicéphore Niépce, 1826)

• The Horse in Motion (Eadweard Muybridge, 1878)

• Roundhay Garden Scene (Louis Le Prince, 1888)

• Horse and Rider Jump Over an Obstacle (Ottomar Anschütz, 1888)

• Pauvre Pierrot (Émile Reynaud, 1892)

001 • Edison Studios

1st Screening

• Monkeyshines, No. 1 & 2 (William K. L. Dickson, c. 1890)

• Dickson Greeting (Dickson, 1891)

• Blacksmith Scene (Dickson, 1893)

• Leonard-Cushing Fight (Dickson, 1894)

• Carmencita (Dickson, 1894)

2nd Screening

• The Barbershop (Dickson, 1894)

• Fire Rescue Scene (Dickson, 1894)

• Sandow (Dickson, 1894)

• Fred Ott’s Sneeze (Dickson, 1894)

• The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (Alfred Clark, 1895)

002 • The Lumière Brothers

1st Screening

• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (Louis Lumière, 1895)

• Baby’s Meal (Lumière, 1895)

• Baby’s First Steps (Lumière, 1896)

• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (Lumière, 1896)

• Panorama of the Grand Canal (Alexandre Promio, 1896)

2nd Screening

• Demolition of a Wall (Lumière, 1895)

• The Waterer Watered (Lumière, 1895)

• Pistol Duel (Gabriel Veyre, 1896)

• The Lover in the Sack (Georges Hatot, 1897)

• The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (Hatot & Lumière, 1898)

003 • The Rise of National Film Industries

1st Screening: European Cinema

• The Cabbage Fairy (Alice Guy, 1896)

• Bedtime for the Bride (Albert Kirchner [Léar], 1896)

• Wintergarten Program (Max Skladanowsky, 1895)

• Rough Sea at Dover (Birt Acres, 1895)

• Come Along, Do! (Robert W. Paul, 1898)

2nd Screening: American Cinema

• Young Griffo v. Battling Charles Barnett (Otway Latham, 1895)

• The Kiss (William Heise, 1896)

• Tearing Down the Spanish Flag (J. Stuart Blackton, 1898)

• The Haverstraw Tunnel (director unknown, 1897)

• Rip Van Winkle (William K. L. Dickson, 1896 / 1903)

004.1 • Georges Méliès

1st Screening: 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)

2nd Screening: Early Narrative Films

• The Astronomer’s Dream (1898)

• Cinderella (1899)

• The Dreyfus Affair (1899)

004.2 • A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, 1902)

005 • The Brighton School

1st Screening: George Albert Smith

• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)

• Grandma’s Reading Glass (1900)

• As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)

• The Sick Kitten (1903)

2nd Screening: James Williamson

• Attack on a China Mission (1900)

• Stop Thief! (1901)

• Fire! (1901)

• The Big Swallow (1901)

006.1 • Edwin S. Porter

1st Screening: Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)

2nd Screening: Life of an American Fireman (1903)

006.2 • The Great Train Robbery (Porter, 1903)

007 • American Film Production of the 1900s

1st Screening: J. Stuart Blackton at Vitagraph

• The Enchanted Drawing (1900)

• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)

• The Haunted Hotel (1907)

2nd Screening: Wallace McCutcheon Sr. at Biograph

• Photographing a Female Crook (1904)

• The Lost Child (1904)

• From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies (1906)

008 • British Film Production of the 1900s

1st Screening: Robert W. Paul and Other Key Filmmakers

• The Countryman and the Cinematograph (Paul, 1901)

• The ‘?’ Motorist (Booth, 1906)

• A Daring Daylight Burglary (Frank Mottershaw, 1903)

• Desperate Poaching Affray (William Haggar, 1903)

• Runaway Match (Alf Collins, 1903)

2nd Screening: Rescued by Rover (Cecil Hepworth & Lewin Fitzhamon, 1905)

009.1 • French Film Production of the 1900s, Part 1

1st Screening: Alice Guy at Gaumont

• The Consequences of Feminism (1906)

• The Glue (1907)

• The Child of the Barricade (1907)

2nd Screening: The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (Guy, 1906)

009.2 • French Film Production of the 1900s, Part 2

1st Screening: Ferdinand Zecca at Pathé

• History of a Crime (Zecca, 1901)

• The Strike (Zecca, 1904)

• The Physician of the Castle (director unknown, 1908)

2nd Screening: Max Linder

• Max’s Film Debut (Linder & Louis J. Gasnier, 1910)

010 • The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (André Calmettes & Charles Le Bargy, 1908)

011.1 • D. W. Griffith at Biograph

1st Screening: The Lonely Villa (1909)

2nd Screening: The Lonedale Operator (1911)

011.2 • A Corner in Wheat (Griffith, 1909)

012 • Women Pioneers of American Cinema

1st Screening: Alice Guy-Blaché

• Falling Leaves (1912)

2nd Screening: Lois Weber

• Suspense (Weber & Phillips Smalley, 1913)

013 • Thomas H. Ince and the Early Studio System

1st Screening: The Lighthouse Keeper (1911)

2nd Screening: The Heart of an Indian (1912)

014 • Keystone Comedies

1st Screening: Won in a Closet (Mabel Normand, 1914)

2nd Screening: When Love Took Wings (Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1915)

015 • The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin, 1915)

016 • Albert Capellani

1st Screening: L’Arlésienne (1908)

2nd Screening: L’Épouvante (1911)

017 • Fantômas (Louis Feuillade, 1913–1914)

018 • Danish Film Production

1st Screening: The White Slave Trade (August Blom, 1910)

2nd Screening: The Abyss (Urban Gad, 1910)

019 • The Mysterious X (Benjamin Christensen, 1914)

020 • Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström, 1913)

021 • The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye, 1913)

022 • Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Yevgeni Bauer, 1913)

023 • Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914)

024 • Early Asian Cinema

1st Screening: Raja Harishchandra (Dadasaheb Phalke, 1913)

2nd Screening: Chūshingura (Shōzō Makino, 1910–1917)

025 • The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915)

026 • Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1916)

027 • The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille, 1915)

028 • The Hollywood Star System

1st Screening: A Fool There Was (Frank Powell, 1915)

2nd Screening: Hell’s Hinges (Charles Swickard, William S. Hart & Clifford Smith, 1916)

029 • The Poor Little Rich Girl (Maurice Tourneur, 1917)

030.1 • Charlie Chaplin

1st Screening: The Tramp (Chaplin, 1915)

2nd Screening: The Immigrant (Chaplin, 1917)

030.2 • The Kid (Chaplin, 1921)