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1890s Rediscovered Movies

Public list by WPS with 19 movies or TV shows/series

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The Haunted Castle(1896)

3min | Fantasy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 74 votes)

Le Manoir du diable or The House of the Devil, released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle, is an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. The film tells the story of an encounter with the Devil and various attendant phantoms. It is intended to evoke amusement and wonder from its audiences, rather than fear. However, because of its themes and characters, it has been considered to technically be the first horror film, as well as potentially the first vampire film. The film opens with a large bat flying into a medieval castle, circling a room, and then suddenly changing into the Devil. Producing a cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a young girl and various supernatural creatures in an effort to scare two cavaliers, eventually succeeding in causing one to flee. Ultimately the remaining cavalier is confronted face-to-face by the Devil before reaching for and brandishing a large crucifix, which causes the Devil to vanish.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès

Dickson Experimental Sound Film(1894)

1min | Music
3.2/5 (with 40 votes)

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

Directed by William Kennedy Dickson - With William Kennedy Dickson

Playing Cards(1896)

1min | Documentary, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 25 votes)

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès, Gaston Méliès

The Surrender of Tournavos(1897)

1min | Action, War, Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 15 votes)

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Derby 1895(1895)

1min
2.5/5 (with 6 votes)

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the race is over, police officers run onto the infield. The crowd moves around.

Directed by Birt Acres

The Mysterious Knight(1899)

2min | Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Naval Combat in Greece(1897)

1min | War, Drama, History
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the camera to look in the distance. At the same time the ship is hit! This scene is a filmed reconstruction of the 1897 Greek-Turkish war.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Something Good — Negro Kiss(1898)

1min | Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Directed by William Nicholas Selig - With Saint Suttle

Post No Bills(1896)

1min | Documentary, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 17 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Arrest of a Pickpocket(1895)

1min
2.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.

Directed by Birt Acres

Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy(1895)

1min | Comedy
1.8/5 (with 4 votes)

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

Directed by Birt Acres

Pygmalion and Galatea(1898)

1min | Fantasy
2.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when the bust leaves the body and crossing the room mocks at him standing with the lower portion of her body in his hands. Further startling illusions are seen in this most beautiful picture.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Jehanne d'Alcy
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The Boxing Kangaroo(1896)

1min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul’s peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a young boy boxing with a kangaroo. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film.

Directed by Birt Acres

Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest(1896)

1min | Documentary
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.

Directed by Birt Acres

Conjuring(1896)

1min
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring is notable as Méliès's second film, and as his first to move beyond the actuality film genre pioneered by the Lumière brothers and experiment with using the camera to capture a theatrical magic act. (Later in 1896, with his discovery of the substitution splice technique, Méliès was able to begin augmenting his theatrical illusions with new special effects unique to film.) Conjuring can thus be seen as Méliès's first foray into the world of fiction film. The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and numbered 2 in its catalogues.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Landing at Low Tide(1896)

1min
1.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Brighton. Landing of party from small boat with comic incidents.

Directed by Birt Acres

The Clown and Automobile(1899)

2min
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Soldier's Courtship(1896)

1min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour(1896)

1min | Documentary
1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Birt Acres, featuring a fleet of fishing smacks leaving the harbour at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. The "attractive Victorian film," was according to Christian Hayes of BFI Screenonline, "one of the twenty-one subjects presented by Birt Acres to the royal family on 21st July 1896, the day before the marriage of Princess Maud to Prince Charles of Denmark, at one of the very first royal film performances.".

Directed by Birt Acres
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