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)