Champions of the first 1,000 titles
by adampkalb | created - 25 Jul 2020 | updated - 05 Aug 2020 | PublicIMDB was created on October 17, 1990. Every title and name has a code based on the page imdb created for it. Like having a social security number. What films and TV in the early 1990s were known enough to make it into the first 1000 titles? Note: There is no 21, 311, 600, 635, 652, 702, 710, 735, 937, or 973.
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1. Carmencita (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Carmencita
Votes: 2,049
2. Le clown et ses chiens (1892)
5 min | Animation, Short
Lost short film consisting of 300 painted images. It shows a clown entering a circus ring and greeting the audience before he starts to perform tricks with three dogs. The dogs jump through hoops, walk on a ball and jump over a wand.
Director: Émile Reynaud
Votes: 275
3. Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
TV-PG | 5 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.
Director: Émile Reynaud
Votes: 2,007
4. Un bon bock (1892)
12 min | Animation, Short
Lost 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud about a wanderer who orders a good beer ("Un bon bock") and meets a traveler who also orders a beer. They enter an argument because a kitchen boy steals their beers.
Director: Émile Reynaud
Votes: 179
5. Blacksmith Scene (1893)
Unrated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Stars: Charles Kayser, John Ott
Votes: 2,769
7. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Sport
James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Stars: James J. Corbett, Peter Courtney
Votes: 857
8. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Fred Ott
Votes: 2,192
9. Miss Jerry (1894)
45 min | Romance
The adventures of a female reporter in the 1890s.
Director: Alexander Black | Stars: Blanche Bayliss, William Courtenay, Chauncey Depew
Votes: 211
10. Leaving the Factory (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 7,550
11. Akrobatisches Potpourri (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
The fifth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, eight circus performers known as the Grunato Family perform their famous balancing act.
Director: Max Skladanowsky | Star: Grunato
Votes: 387
12. The Arrival of a Train (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
A train arrives at La Ciotat station.
Directors: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière | Stars: Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière
Votes: 12,866
13. The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
The photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Auguste Lumière, P.J.C. Janssen
Votes: 1,963
14. The Waterer Watered (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: François Clerc, Benoît Duval
Votes: 5,841
15. Autour d'une cabine (1894)
2 min | Animation, Short
Pre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.
Director: Émile Reynaud
Votes: 1,170
16. Boat Leaving the Port (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière
Votes: 1,575
17. Italienischer Bauerntanz (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
The first sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Directors: Emil Skladanowsky, Max Skladanowsky | Stars: Ploetz, Larella
Votes: 345
18. Das boxende Känguruh (1895)
1 min | Short
The third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
Director: Max Skladanowsky | Star: Delaware
Votes: 625
19. The Clown Barber (1898)
Short, Comedy
Clown cuts off customer's head and replaces it.
Director: James Williamson
Votes: 32
20. The Derby 1895 (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
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.
Director: Birt Acres
Votes: 378
21. The Derby 1895 (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
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.
Director: Birt Acres
Votes: 378
22. Blacksmith Scene (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Two blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 1,144
23. The Sea (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 1,506
24. Opening of the Kiel Canal (1895)
1 min | Short, News
Director: Birt Acres | Stars: Empress Augusta Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm II
Votes: 130
25. The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race (1896)
Short, News, Sport
Although the content of this film is primitive in the extreme - a shot of the traditional Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race, filmed on March 30 1895 - this film is of immense ... See full summary »
Director: Birt Acres
Votes: 43
26. The Messers. Lumière at Cards (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Two men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Antoine Féraud, Antoine Lumière, Félicien Trewey, Alphonse Winckler
Votes: 1,607
27. Cordeliers' Square in Lyon (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 1,208
28. Fishing for Goldfish (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Andrée Lumière, Auguste Lumière
Votes: 1,135
29. Baby's Meal (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Auguste Lumière, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Andrée Lumière
Votes: 3,512
30. Rough Sea at Dover (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
The sea is quite rough, and at Dover a series of heavy waves pounds against a pier and along the adjacent shoreline. The scene then shifts to a different view of flowing water, and shows a heavy current from a point along a riverbank.
Directors: Birt Acres, Robert W. Paul
Votes: 892
31. Jumping the Blanket (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Outdoors, with a nondescript building in the background, four men stand, each holding the corner of a blanket stretched parallel to the ground. They wear the clothes of laborers. By the ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 1,049
32. Die Serpentintänzerin (1895)
1 min | Short
The seventh sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a young female dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
Director: Max Skladanowsky | Star: Ancion
Votes: 435
33. Horse Trick Riders (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
A man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 1,077
34. Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 230
35. Watering the Flowers (1896)
1 min | Short, Comedy
This lost film presumably features a person watering flowers to comedic effect. This film is believed to have imitated the Louis and Auguste Lumière film "L'arroseur arrose", which survives.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 84
36. Watering the Flowers (1896)
1 min | Short, Comedy
This lost film presumably features a person watering flowers to comedic effect. This film is believed to have imitated the Louis and Auguste Lumière film "L'arroseur arrose", which survives.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 84
37. Sea Bathing (1896)
1 min | Short
The film was shown tenth and completed the famous first paid Lumière cinema show of the ten films in Paris in the basement "Grand Cafe" on the Boulevard des Capucines 28 December 1895. ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 73
38. The Ball Game (1898)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
"The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the bag, and the satisfied grin of the runner ... See full summary »
Director: William Heise | Stars: Scoops Carey, Zane Grey, Scott Stratton
Votes: 213
40. Barque sortant du port de Trouville (1896)
Documentary, Short
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 72
41. Bataille de neige (1897)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
People start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 1,994
43. Batteuse à vapeur (1896)
Documentary, Short
Little is known of this lost film; presumably it featured one or more threshing machines.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 33
44. Le bivouac (1896)
1 min | Short
This lost film, among the earliest by Georges Méliès, presumably featured the use of a bivouac sack for a soldier encampment.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 50
45. Les blanchisseuses (1896)
Short
This lost film presumably features women washing clothing.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 34
49. Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest (1896)
Short, Sport
Stage boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.
Director: Birt Acres
Votes: 52
50. Bébé et fillettes (1896)
Documentary, Short
Little is known about this lost film, which presumably features young baby girls.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georgette Méliès
Votes: 35
51. The Bohemian Encampment (1896)
Documentary, Short
Very little is known of this lost film; according to the title it featured a gypsy camp.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 36
52. Ruraux au galop (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
In three successive waves, civil guard riders quickly cross the plain.
Director: Gabriel Veyre
Votes: 113
53. A Chegada do Comboio Inaugural à Estação Central do Porto (1897)
Documentary, Short
Director: Francisco Pinto Moreira
Votes: 19
54. A Merry-Go-Round (1896)
Short
Very little is known of this lost Georges Melies film, but the title indicates it may have featured children riding a merry-go-round.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 35
57. Cortège de tzar allant à Versailles (1896)
Documentary, Short
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra
Votes: 36
58. Cortège de tzar au Bois de Boulogne (1896)
Documentary, Short
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Tsar Nicholas II
Votes: 34
59. Coronation of a Village Maiden (1896)
Short
Little is known about this lost film, which presumably features a coronation of the rosary, or a celebration of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 28
60. Dancing Darkies (1896)
Documentary, Short
"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."
Director: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 91
62. Danse serpentine (1896)
1 min | Short
This lost film is speculated to have featured a serpentine dance, possibly in an imitation of the Edison Studios' "Annabelle" films, except with a different dancer.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 208
63. Dessinateur express (1896)
Short
This lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the statesman and historian Adolphe Thiers with stunning rapidity.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 29
64. Dessinateur: Chamberlain (1896)
Short
This lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the statesman and Liberal Unionist Joseph Chamberlain with stunning rapidity.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 30
65. Dessinateur: Reine Victoria (1896)
Short
This lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing Her Majesty H. M. Queen Victoria with stunning rapidity.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 30
66. Dessinateur: Von Bismark (1896)
Short
This lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismark with stunning rapidity.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 30
67. Conjurer Making Ten Hats in Sixty Seconds (1896)
Short, Fantasy
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 79
69. Post No Bills (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 503
70. Demolition of a Wall (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lumière | Star: Auguste Lumière
Votes: 2,769
73. Effets de mer sur les rochers (1896)
Documentary, Short
Very little is known about this lost film, but according to the title it possibly featured large waves crashing against jagged, black rocks on a coast.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 31
75. The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin (1896)
1 min | Short, Horror
As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 2,053
76. Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Drama, Short
The third of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip helps the dwarf carrying the barrel into the mountains.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 554
78. Feira de Gado na Corujeira (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Campinos on horseback drive small herds of cattle through the vast area of the traditional fair, before prospective buyers.
Director: Aurélio da Paz dos Reis
Votes: 96
82. A Hard Wash (1896)
Comedy, Short
"A colored woman washing a little pickaninny. Very funny, and especially pleasing to children."
Director: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 50
85. Gardener Burning Weeds (1896)
Short
Little is known about this lost film, which presumably features a gardener.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 34
86. Beach and Pier at Trouville, 1st part (1896)
Documentary, Short
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 34
87. Beach and Pier at Trouville, 2nd part (1896)
Documentary, Short
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 37
89. Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer (1897)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk ... See full summary »
Directors: Auguste Lumière, Alexandre Promio
Votes: 1,047
91. The House of the Devil (1896)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Horror
With the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Jules-Eugène Legris, Georges Méliès
Votes: 3,978
97. Place de l'Opéra, First View (1896)
Documentary, Short
This lost film presumably features the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 34
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