Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Films I Haven't Seen - 1900-1919

The following is a tentative list of shorts and feature films that I haven't seen during the 1900-1919 era. So many are now available on DVD or YouTube, so I should be able to catch up on what I missed from these 20 years.

What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City (1901)
The Man With the Rubber Head (1901) - Melies?
Excelsior! Prince of Magicians (1901)
The Dwarf and the Giant (1901)
Bluebeard (1901)

Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902)

*Life of an American Fireman (1903)
The Infernal Cauldron (1903)

Westinghouse Works (1904)
The Untamable Whiskers (1904)
The Suburbanite (1904)

The Living Playing Cards (1905) - Georges Melies
The Black Devil (1905)

The Birth, The Life and Death of Christ (1906)
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) - Edwin S. Porter
The Hilarious Posters (1906)

That Fatal Sneeze (1907)
The Policemen's Little Run (1907)
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)

The Tempest (1908)
Fantasmagorie (1908)

Ben's Kid (1909) - Fatty Arbuckle
The Country Doctor (1909) - Griffith
The Devilish Tenant (1909)
Lady Helen's Escapade (1909) - Griffith

The Abyss (1910)
The Hasher's Delirium (1910)
*In Old California (1910) - Griffith
The Usurer (1910) - Griffith


Enoch Arden (1911) - Griffith
The Last Drop of Water (1911) - Griffith
The Miser's Heart (1911) - Griffith

The Burglar's Dilemma (1912) - Griffith
The Female of the Species (1912) - Griffith
For His Son (1912) - Griffith
Friends (1912) - Griffith
From the Manger to the Cross (1912) - early religious film
The Girl and Her Trust (1912) - Griffith
The Lesser Evil (1912) - Griffith
The New York Hat (1912) - Griffith
One is Business, The Other Crime (1912) - Griffith
The Painted Lady (1912) - Griffith
Quo Vadis? (1912) - first 2-hour+ film
*Richard III (1912) - oldest surviving full-length film
The Sunbeam (1912) - Griffith
The Vampire Dancer (1912) - Danish erotic melodrama

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) - Griffith
Death's Marathon (1913) - Griffith
*Fantômas (1913) - French crime/detective film
The House of Darkness (1913) - Griffith
*The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) - Italian epic
The Mothering Heart (1913) - Griffith
The Student of Prague (1913)
Traffic in Souls (1913)
The Vampire (1913) - US vamp film
The Avenging Conscience, or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914) - Griffith
*Cabiria (1914) - early Italian film
Daisy Doodad’s Dial (1914)
Gertie the Trained Dinosaur (1914)
Judith of Bethulia (1914) - Griffith epic available on YouTube
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Chaplin's tramp
The Massacre (1914) - Griffith
The Perils of Pauline (1914) - unavailable Pearl White serial
*The Squaw Man (1914) - first DeMille film

Carmen (1915) Cecil B. DeMille
*The Cheat (1915)
A Fool There Was (1915) - Theda Bara
*Les Vampires (1915) - famed horror serial
Pool Sharks (1915) - W.C Fields
*Regeneration (1915) - early Raoul Walsh film
The Tramp (1915) - Chaplin

Behind the Screen (1916) - Chaplin
Civilization (1916) - early epic from Thomas Ince
The Curse of Quon Gwon - early Chinese film
The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
Hell's Hinges (1916) - William S. Hart western
*Judex (1916) - Louis Feuillade serial
*The Pawnshop (1916) - Chaplin
*The Rink (1916) - Chaplin
*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

The Adventurer (1917) - Chaplin
Cleopatra (1917) - lost Theda Bara film
The Cure (1917) - Chaplin
Easy Street (1917) - Chaplin
Fear (1917)
Joan the Woman (1917) - Cecil B. DeMille
A Little Princess (1917) - Pickford
The Outlaw and His Wife (1917) - Swedish
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) - Pickford
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) - Pickford
The Silent Man (1917) - William S. Hart western

The Blue Bird (1918) - National Film Registry selection
Hearts of the World (1918) - Griffith
The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
Mickey (1918)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
The Song of the Scarlet Flower (1918)
*Stella Maris (1918) - Pickford
Tarzan of the Apes (1918) - Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan
The Whispering Chorus (1918) - Cecil B. DeMille

Ask Father (1919) - Harold Lloyd
Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919) - Harold Lloyd
Blind Husbands (1919) - von Stroheim
*Broken Blossoms (1919) - Griffith/Gish
Bumping into Broadway (1919) - Harold Lloyd
The Busher (1919) - John Gilbert
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
The Doll (1919) - Ernst Lubitsch
Don’t Change Your Husband (1919) Cecil B. DeMille
J'accuse! (1919) - Abel Gance war film
Madame DuBarry (1919) - Negri/Jannings/Lubitsch
Male and Female (1919) - Gloria Swanson
The Oyster Princess (1919) - Ernst Lubitsch
Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)
True Heart Susie (1919) - D.W. Griffith

There are many films from this era that are considered lost. Amazing to think that it's been 100+ years. Also there are lots of shorts from D.W. Griffith, as well as Charlie Chaplin, and some early shorts from Harold Lloyd that I haven't had a chance to see.

One day...

No comments: