Film History

The Birth of Cinema, 1874-1895

Early Film Pioneers: Alfred Clark and the Birth of the Historical Reconstruction Film

Lumière Brothers Filmography by Catalogue Number

The Year 1896 in Film: The Debuts of Georges Méliès, Pathé frères, American Mutoscope, and Gaumont

The Year 1897 in Film: The Debuts of Vitagraph, Mitchell & Kenyon, Denmark and Venezuela

The First Talkies – Part 1: 1900 “Le Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre”

The Year 1905 in Film: The Debuts of Max Linder, China, Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia

The Year 1906 in Film: The Debuts of Éclair, Feuillade, Bosetti and Finland

The Year 1907 in Film: The Debuts of Éclair, Essanay and Kalem

How the Cinema was Reborn in Dumbshow in 1907: Prodigal Sons and Shapely Calves

Tulipomania, Faunophobia and Copyright: a Pathé Mystery

The Year 1908 in Film: The Debuts of Detective Films, Film d’Art, Peplum, Griffith and the Russian Film Industry

The Unbeliever (1918): Edison Bows Out of the Film Business