Top 20 Films of the 1890s POLL

[Blu-Velvet]

Okay, here's finally a list of 20 top films from the 1890s in general order of preference. I know there are some I've left off I planned to include, but didn't have time to track them down (it took a long time to find the title of the amusing sequel to "L'arroseur arrosé"), as I didn't have time to dig out my old 16mm print. The list is pretty heavy on Méliès and the Lumière brothers, but they're the easiest to find and I tried to include a few other filmmakers.


20 TOP FILMS FROM THE 1890s
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L’arroseur arrosé (The Sprinkler Sprinkled) (1895) Lumières
Les jouers de cartes arrosés (1897) Lumières
Cinderella (1899) Méliès
L’hallucination de l’alchemiste (1897) Méliès
Le Manoir du Diable (1896) Méliès
Santa Claus (1898) George Albert Smith
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895) Edison
Fatima, Muscle Dancer (1896) Edison
John C. Rice/May Irwin Kiss (1896) Edison
Workers Leaving the Factory (1895) Lumières

Egypt: The Pyramids (1897) Lumières
Princess Ali, Egyptian dance (1895) Edison
A Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) George Albert Smith
A Wringing Good Joke (1899) Edison
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) Edison
The Devil in a Convent (1899) Méliès
At the Hypnotist’s (1898) Alice Guy-Blaché
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak (1898) Alice Guy-Blaché
Wonderful Absinthe (1899) Alice Guy-Blaché
L’Affaire Dreyfus (9-part “serial”) (1899) Méliès