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Choose your favourite films from 1903 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Deadline for 1903 ballots will be Friday, March 31st at roughly midnight EDT.

don't remember hardly any i've apparently seen for this so basically starting from scratch and gonna log nice ones here...

since i recently watched a 1926 version, thought to revisit the 1903 one....

don quichotte - ferdinand zecca, lucien nonguet

clearly missing the windmills, but some lovely jewel-like colouring and i swear if you squint hard enough you can see some 1903 ass when he's doing handstands in his nightshirt

A Desperate Poaching Affray (William Haggar)
Down the Hudson (Frederick Armitage)
Le Monstre (Georges Melies)

The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S Porter)
Alice in Wonderland (Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow)
Le Melomane (Georges Melies)

The Mystical Flame (Georges Melies)
Spiritisme Abracadabrant (Georges Melies)
Life of an American Fireman (Edwin S Porter)

Mary Jane's Mishap (George Albert Smith)
Seeing New York by Yacht (Frederick Armitage and AE Weed)
Experimental Color Film (Benjamin Jumeaux and WL Davidson)

Living Sculptures: Film Study for Screen Artist 1903 ‘Akt-Skulpturen. Studienfilm für bildende Künstler’ Directed by Oskar Messter
The Sick Kitten 1903 Directed by George Albert Smith
The Gay Shoe Clerk 1903 Directed by Edwin S. Porter
Mary Jane’s Mishap 1903 Directed by George Albert Smith
Seeing New York by Yacht 1903 Directed by Frederick S. Armitage, A.E. Weed

i've been watching a few of these, instantly forgotten so should have documented them...

there's a few films on bfi player (so geoblocked) - the passmore family were one of the first in the uk to get a camera for making home movies and the 1903 ones are brief but joyous (two beach scenes and a kite one) - different from the professional films because they're more interested in capturing the family experience than showing anything, very sweet..

and from the first intimacy to the avant-garde....this is gorgeous

seeing new york harbor by yacht - armitage/weed

watch: https://lightcone.org/en/film-10376-see ... r-by-yacht

Manhattan appears from a moving boat, but the time-lapse mechanism misregistered, creating a fuzzy, impressionistic effect. Add in the stuttering pixilation and this incredible voyage anticipates underground cinema works of the 1960s - 1970s." - Bruce Posner

bootle may day demonstration and crowning of the may queen

pretty long (18 mins) footage of enjoyably bleak and grim northern england wickerman shit - presume cameraman ran out of film for the child sacrifice.

carriage driver is so so tired of all this nonsense

and further south to petticoat lane in london....love seeing all the smiling laughing faces when they catch the camera

and such people...there's a tilt-hatted man straight out of gangster 1920s on the left and a dickens character on the right...

That guy on the right, wasn't he in Old Man Drinking A Glass Of Beer?

omg the world's first cameo

https://kinometer.com/?list=498

The Cheese Mites (F. Martin Duncan, 1903, 2m) → https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 336#p42336
Seeing New York by Yacht (Frederick S. Armitage, A.E. Weed, 1903, 3m)
Orphans in the Surf (G.W. Bitzer, A.C. Abadie, 1903, 3m)
Film Study for Fine Artists (Unknown, 1903, 4m)
Hammerfest (Robert W. Paul, 1903, 2m)
Lytham to Blackpool Trams and Views (Unknown, 1903, 10m)
An Outing to Wide Beach (Maurice Saturnin Massonnier, 1903, 4m)
The Melomaniac (Georges Méliès, 1903, 3m)
The Ballet Master's Dream (Georges Méliès, 1903, 2m)
The Kingdom of Fairies (Georges Méliès, 1903, 16m)

The Inn Where No Man Rests (Georges Méliès, 1903, 5m)
The Apparition, or Mr. Jones' Comical Experience With a Ghost (Georges Méliès, 1903, 3m)
The Monster (Georges Méliès, 1903, 2m)
The Enchanted Well (Georges Méliès, 1903, 4m)
Mary Jane's Mishap (George Albert Smith, 1903, 4m)
Alice in Wonderland (Cecil M. Hepworth, Percy Stow, 1903, 8m)
Adventures of the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote (Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet, 1903, 8m)
The Gay Shoe Clerk (Edwin S. Porter, 1903, 1m)
The Infernal Boiling Pot (Georges Méliès, 1903, 2m)
The Spiritualist Photographer (Georges Méliès, 1903, 2m)

i forgot about this :p watching some now. 74f yesterday, 47f today and it's been raining. stayed in bed til noon cuz now i'm sick

edit: things are looking up! the sun is out, i've seen my first orioles of spring. and trump just got indicted

flying a kite - passmore family
seeing new york by yacht - frederick s. armitage, a.e. weed
orphans in the surf - billy bitzer, a.c. abadie
the execution - peter elfelt
living sculptures: film study for screen artist - oskar messter
don quichotte - ferdinand zecca, lucien nonguet
le portrait spirituel - georges méliès
bootle may day demonstration and crowning of the may queen
petticoat lane