Disc 1.
New beginnings.
Exiting the factory
/ Lumiere
(France, 1896, 1:13) ;
Arrival of a train /
Gaumont
( France, 1897, 0:48) ;
Card party /
Lumiere
(France, 1896, hand-colored, 1:26) ;
Kobelkoff
(France, 1900, 1:24);
Danse Serpentine (In a lion's cage)
(France, 1900, hand-colored, 2:08) ;
Cyrano de Bergerac /
Phono-Cinema-Theatre
(France, 1900, hand-colored, sound on cylinder, 1:55) ;
La Marseillaise /
Georges Mendel
(France, 1907, sound on disc, 2:41) --
Magical movies.
Excelsior! Prince of Magicians /
Georges Méliès
(France, 1901, 2:06) ;
Talion punishment /
Gaston Velle, Pathé frères
(France, 1906, stencil-colored, 4:13) ;
Kiriki, Japanese acrobats /
Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères
(France, 1907, hand-colored, 2:38) ;
An excursion to the moon /
Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères
(France, 1908, stencil-colored, 6:47) ;
Automatic Moving Company /
Romeo Bosetti, Pathé frères
(France, 1911, 4:23) -- Seeing the world.
Seine flood /
Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim
(France, 1910, 4:16) ;
Over the top (A battle with the elements) /
Earle Films ; music, Eric Beheim
(USA, 1915, 11:22) ;
A visit to Los Angeles /
Ford Motor Company ; music, Frederick Hodges
(USA, 1916, 10:25) ;
Montmartre's kids /
music, Eric le Guen
(France, 1916, 3:51) ;
Dirigible Los Angeles /
Blackhawk Films ; music, Eric Beheim
(USA, 1924, 19:24) ;
In the land of giants and pygmies /
Aurelio Rossi ; music, Eric le Guen
(Belgian Congo, 1925, stencil-colored, English intertitles, 8:33) ;
Technicolor fashion parade /
Fashion Features, Inc ; music, Frederick Hodges
(USA, 1927, 5:53) ;
Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the air /
Fox-Case Movietone
(USA, 1927, 11:50) ;
Fireman of the Follies-Bergère /
with Josephine Baker ; music, Eric le Guen
(France, 1928, 7:38) ;
Meet me down at Coney Isle /
Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone
(USA, 1932, 8:13)
Disc 2.
Laughing like we used to.
Dancing pig /
Pathé frères ; music, Frederick Hodges
(France, 1907, 2:24) ;
Monkey race /
Italia Film ; music, Eric Beheim
(Italy, 1909, 4:03) ;
I fetch the bread /
Pathé frères ; music, Eric Beheim
(France, 1907, 5:10) ;
Artheme swallows his clarinet /
Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim
(France, 1912, 3:54) ;
Kid's auto race /
Keystone Film Co. ; producer, Mack Sennett ; with Charlie Chaplin ; music, Eric Beheim
(USA, 1914, 6:20) ;
Pest /
Amalgamated Productions ; producer/director, G. M. Anderson ; with Stan Laurel ; music, Frederick Hodges
(USA, 1922, 22:26) ;
Lizzies of the field /
producer, Mack Sennett ; director, Del Lord ; music, Eric Beheim
(USA, 1924, 14:04) --
Drawings and models.
Fantasmagorie /
Gaumont Company ; by Emile Cohl ; music, Frederick Hodges
(France, 1908, 1:30) ;
Cartoon factory /
Fleischer Studios ; by Max Fleischer
(USA, 1924, 7:53) ;
In the orient : Tony Sarg's Marionettes /
Columbia Pictures ; by Tony Sarg
(USA, 1929, 9:52) ;
Ain't she sweet /
Fleischer Studios ; with Lillian Roth
(USA, 1932, 7:11) ;
Balloonland (aka The Pincushion man) /
Ub Iwerks
(USA, Cinecolor, 1935, 6:41) ;
Play safe /
Fleischer Studios
(USA, Technicolor, 1936, 7:05) --
Grace notes.
Radi-Ators /
Columbia Pictures ; Utica Jubilee Singers
(USA, 1929, 9:18) ;
Black and tan /
RCA ; director, Dudley Murphy with Fernand Léger ; Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra
(USA, 1929, 18:10) ;
Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen
(Denmark, 1934, 9:05) ;
Jazz hot /
with Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France
(France, 1939, 6:20)
Disc 3.
Persuade me.
California election news #2 /
produced by MGM
(USA, 1934, 6:52) ;
3 advertisements for theaters produced in France:
Week-end /
with Fernandel ; produced by Virginia Week-End Tobacco
(France, 1938, 2:17) ;
Cette nuit-la /
with Jacques Tati ; produced by Levitan and Co.
(France, 1935, 1:31) ;
Clo-cloche /
with Michel Simon ; produced by Caporal
(France, 1935, 2:08) ;
MGM promo reel /
MGM ; with Laurel & Hardy
(France, 1936, 8:30) ;
Master hands /
Chevrolet Motor Co. ; producer, Jam Handy Organization
(USA, 1936, 31:48) ;
Philips Broadcast of 1938 /
Philips Radio A/S ; animator, George Pal
(Holland, 1938, 4:57) ;
Three "Soundies" made for coin-operated jukebox devices:
Yankee Doodler /
Soundies Dist. Corp
(USA, 1942, 2:54) ;
Rosie the riveter /
Soundies Dist. Corp.
(USA, 1943, 2:38) ;
Dear Arabella /
Soundies Dist. Corp.
(USA, 1942, 2:38) ;
Hell bent for election /
UPA Pictures ; animation, Chuck Jones
(USA, 1944, 12:30) --
Tell me a story.
For his son /
Biograph Co. ; producer/director, D.W. Griffith ; with Charles Hill Mailes, Blanche Sweet
(USA, 1912, 14:52) ;
Suspense /
Rex Films ; producers/directors, Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley ; with Lois Weber, Val Paul
(USA, 1913, 10:10) ;
Heart of an Indian (aka. The Indian massacre) /
Bison Motion Pictures ; director, Thomas Ince ; with Francis Ford, Ann Little
(USA, 1912, 32:20) --
One for the road.
Stolen kisses [compilation]
(ca. 1920s, 3:30)