Edison : the invention of the movies /
Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole pr...
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New York, NY :
Kino on Video,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- DVD 1, 1889-1903. 1889-91. Early Edison camera tests (Monkeyshines, no.1 ; Dickson greeting ; Newark athlete (with Indian clubs) ; Men boxing). 1893. Blacksmithing scene ; Barber shop. 1894. Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze ; Athlete with wand ; Sandow ; Carmecita ; Boxing cats ; Caicedo with pole ; Annabelle butterfly dance ; Cockfight, no. 2 ; Corbett and Courtney before the kinetograph ; Sioux ghost dance ; Buffalo dance ; The Hornbacker-Murphy fight ; Hadj Cheriff, Arab knife juggler ; Glenroy Bros., no. 2 ; Louis Martinetti, Contortionist ; Bucking broncho ; Annie Oakley ; Imperial Japanese dance ; Robetta and Doretto ; Chinese laundry scene ; Band drill ; Fire rescue ; 1895. Billy Edwards and the unknown ; Dickson experimental sound film ; Princess Ali, Egyptian dance ; Annabelle serpentine dance ; The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. 1896. Amy Muller ; John C. Rice-Mary Irwin kiss ; Shooting the chutes ; Fatima, muscle dancer (original and censored versions) ; Mess call ; Inventor Edison sketched by world artist ; Watermellon eating contest ; The lone fisherman ; Interrupted lovers ; Feeding the doves ; A morning bath ; The burning stable ; Mounted police charge ; McKinley parade ; Going to the fire ; A morning alarm ; Black Diamond express ; American falls ; The first sleigh ride ; The morning alarm. 1897. Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory ; Return of lifeboat ; 1898. Troop ships for the Philippines ; U.S. troops landing in Daiquiri, Cuba ; The burglar on the roof ; Firemen rescuing men and women ; A wringing good joke ; Gold rush scenes in the Klondike. 1900. Searching ruins on Broadway for dead bodies, Galveston, Texas ; The kiss ; Capture of Boer battery by British ; A storm at sea. 1901. Old maid having her picture taken ; High diving scene ; Photographing a country couple ; What happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City ; Pan-American Exposition by night ; Trapeze disrobing act. 1902. Burning of Durland's Riding Academy ; Jack and the beanstalk ; Electrocuting an elephant ; The life of an American fireman ; Egyptian fakir with dancing monkey ; A scrap in black and white ; Uncle Tom's cabin ; The gay shoe clerk ; Turning the tables ; What happened in the tunnel ; The great train robbery
- DVD 2, 1904-1907. 1904. European rest cure ; How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns ; Strenuous life; or, Anti-race suicide ; The ex-convict. 1905. Klepto-maniac ; The seven ages ; The whole dam family and the dam dog ; Coney Island at night ; The little train robbery ; The white caps ; The miller's daughter ; Train wreckers ; Life of an American policeman ; Police chasing scorching auto. 1906. The dream of a rarebit fiend ; Three American beauties ; Films of the San Francisco earthquake ; The terrible kids ; Kathleen Mavourneen ; Getting evidence. 1907. The "Teddy" bears
- DVD 3, 1907-1913. Cohen's fire sale ; The rivals ; The trainer's daughter; or, A race for love ; College chums ; Laughing gas ; A little girl who did not believe in Santa Claus. 1908. A suburbanite's ingenious alarm ; Rescued from an eagle's nest ; Fireside reminiscences ; Cupid's pranks ; Tale the Autumn leaves told (fragment). 1909. The house of cards. 1910. New York of today ; How Bumptious papered the parlor. 1912. Thirty days at hard labor ; The passer-by ; Totville eye ; Public and private care of infants. 1913. An unsullied shield
- DVD 4, 1913-1918. At Bear Track Gulch ; The Ambassador's daughter ; A serenade by proxy ; All on account of a transfer. 1914. One touch of nature ; The adventure of the hasty elopement. 1915. The wonders of magnetism ; Black eyes ; The lone game. 1918. The unbeliever.