The List

Compiled from guests’ and listeners’ picks

All submitted films

The 1800s

  • Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895, William K.L. Dickson and William Heise)

  • Annie G. (1887, Eadweard Muybridge)

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

  • The Astronomer’s Dream (1898, Georges Méliès)

  • Boxing Cats (1894, William K.L. Dickson and William Heise)

  • The Cabbage Fairy (1896, Alice Guy-Blaché)

  • Children Dancing with Barrel Organ (1898, Charles Goodwin Norton)

  • Cinderella (1899, Georges Méliès)

  • The Dairy Maid’s Revenge (1899, Frank S. Armitage)

  • The Derby 1895 (1895, Birt Acres)

  • The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894, William K.L. Dickson)

  • The Four Troublesome Heads (1898, Georges Méliès)

  • The Launch of H.M.S. Albion (1898, Robert W. Paul)

  • The Miller and the Sweep (1897, George Albert Smith)

  • La Nourrice (c. 1896-1900, Georges Méliès)

  • Opium Den (1899, Gabriel Veyre)

  • Panorama pris d'un ballon captif (1899, unknown)

  • Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (1898, William K.L. Dickson)

  • Roundhay Garden Scene (1888, Louis Le Prince)

  • Sallie Gardner (1878, Eadweard Muybridge)

  • Santa Claus (1898, George Albert Smith)

  • Serpentine Dance (1897, Louis Lumière)

  • Something Good/Negro Kiss (1898, William Selig)

  • Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888, Louis Le Prince)

  • Untitled William Friese-Greene film (1890, William Friese-Greene)

  • The Vanishing Lady (1896, Georges Méliès)

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

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

1901

  • Arrosage général (Ambroise-François Parnaland)

  • Bailey’s Royal Buxton Punch and Judy Show in Halifax (unknown)

  • The Big Swallow (James Williamson)

  • Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (Walter R. Booth)

  • The Countryman and the Cinematograph (Robert W. Paul)

  • The Death of Poor Joe (George Albert Smith)

  • Demolishing and Building up the Star Theater (Frederick S. Armitage)

  • The Finish of Bridget McKeen (Edwin S. Porter)

  • Hands off the Flag (unknown)

  • Histoire d'un crime (Ferdinand Zecca)

  • De Maasbrug te Rotterdam Omstreeks 1901 (unknown)

  • The Magic Sword (Walter R. Booth)

  • The Man with the Rubber Head (Georges Méliès)

  • Manchester and Salford Harriers' Cyclists' Procession (unknown)

  • Manchester Band of Hope Procession (unknown)

  • Nankin Road, Shanghai (unknown)

  • Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (William K.L. Dickson)

  • Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (William K.L. Dickson)

  • Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front (unknown)

  • Par le trou de la serrure (Ferdinand Zecca)

  • Ride on the Tramcar through Belfast (unknown)

  • Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand (Joseph Perry)

  • Rugby Football Match (unknown)

  • Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost (Walter R. Booth)

  • Stop Thief! (James Williamson)

  • The Waif and the Wizard (Walter R. Booth)

1900

  • Attack on a China Mission (James Williamson)

  • Avenue de l’opéra (Alice Guy-Blaché)

  • Battleship ‘Odin’ with All Her Guns in Action (unknown)

  • The Cabbage Fairy (Alice Guy-Blaché)

  • The Christmas Dream (Georges Méliès)

  • La concierge (Alice Guy-Blaché)

  • Cyrano de Bergerac (Clément Maurice)

  • Dance of the Seasons: Winter (Alice Guy-Blaché)

  • Danse directoire (Marguerite Vrignault)

  • The Enchanted Drawing (J. Stuart Blackton)

  • Exploding a Whitehead Torpedo (James H. White)

  • Explosion of a Motor Car (Cecil Hepworth)

  • Gavotte (Marguerite Vrignault)

  • Grandma’s Reading Glass (George Albert Smith)

  • Hamlet (Clément Maurice)

  • How It Feels to Be Run Over (Cecil Hepworth)

  • The Kiss (unknown)

  • Let Me Dream Again (George Albert Smith)

  • The Magic Book (Georges Méliès)

  • Le Maître de ballet (Marguerite Vrignault)

  • The One-Man Band (Georges Méliès)

  • Palace of Electricity (James H. White)

  • Panorama of the Paris Exposition No. 3 (Cecil Hepworth)

  • Pierrette’s Escapades (Alice Guy-Blaché)

  • Queen Victoria’s Last Visit to Ireland (unknown)

  • Solar Eclipse (Nevil Maskelyne)

  • Stucky: Giri di Manovella (Giancarlo Stucky)

  • Turn-of-the-century Surgery (Alice Guy-Blaché)

  • Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs (Gabriel Veyre)