Obscure Early Films

Our personal movie library contains two programs broadcast by Turner Classic Movies (TCM), which were made up of smaller, obscure, early films. This page lists those programs and the early films they included.


Title
   
Runtime
Start Offset


Intro 2:10 0:00
Blacksmithing Scene 1893 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:42 2:10
Barber Shop, The 1893 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:40 2:52
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:13 3:32
Sandow 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:39 3:45
Boxing Cats (Prof Welton’s), The 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:31 4:24
Annabelle Butterfly Dance 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:36 4:55
Sioux Ghost Dance 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:34 5:31
Annie Oakley 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:34 6:05
Robetta and Dorretta, [No. 2] 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:33 6:39
Fire Rescue Scene 1894 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 0:33 7:12
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
(World’s First Synchronized Sound)
ca. 1894-95 W.K.L. Dickson & William Heise 1:21 7:45
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, The 1895 Alfred Clark & William Heise 0:29 9:06
John C. Rice — Mary Irwin Kiss, The 1896 William Heise 0:35 9:35
Shooting the Chutes 1896 William Heise & James White 0:40 10:10
Fatima, Muscle Dancer 1896 William Heise & James White 1:21 10:50
Fifth Avenue, New York 1897 William Heise & James White 0:47 12:11
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory 1897 William Heise & James White 0:38 12:58
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City 1901 Edwin S. Porter & George S. Fleming [?] 1:39 13:36
Pan-American Exposition by Night 1901 Edwin S. Porter & James Blair Smith 1:04 15:15
Life of an American Fireman, The 1903 Edwin S. Porter, George S. Fleming & James H. White 6:59 16:19
What Happened in the Tunnel 1903 Edwin S. Porter 1:21 23:18
Great Train Robbery, The 1903 Edwin S. Porter & James Blair Smith 12:10 24:39
Kleptomaniac, The 1905 Edwin S. Porter 10:52 36:49
Little Train Robbery, The 1905 Edwin S. Porter 10:45 47:41
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, The 1906 Edwin S. Porter & Wallace McCutcheon 6:36 58:26
Three American Beauties 1906 Edwin S. Porter & Wallace McCutcheon 1:01 1:05:02
Films of the San Francisco Earthquake 1906 Robert K. Bonine 2:06 1:06:03
"Teddy" Bears, The 1907 Edwin S. Porter & Wallace McCutcheon 13:52 1:08:09
Rivals, The 1907 Edwin S. Porter & J. Searle Dawley 12:43 1:22:01
Rescued From an Eagle’s Nest 1908 Edwin S. Porter & J. Searle Dawley 7:23 1:34:44
Lone Game, The 1915 Edward C. Taylor 16:23 1:42:07
Prologue 1:00 1:58:30



Intro 2:12 0:00
Those Awful Hats 1913 2:50 2:12
Corner In Wheat 19?? 13:56 5:02
In the Border States 1910 14:41 18:58
For His Son 1912 14:56 33:39
Sunbeam, The 1913 14:52 48:35
Girl and Her Trust, The 1913 15:04 1:03:27
Musketeers of Pig Alley, The 1911? 16:47 1:18:31
Mothering Heart, The 1913 29:38 1:35:18
Prologue 1:02 2:04:56



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