1910 Poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1910 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

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

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1910 lists will be Monday, March 2nd at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time. Or a couple hours later, because this winter it has been very hard for me to adhere to this schedule.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Seen and didn't hate (Thox is right -- why beat around the bush?)

Frankenstein - J S Dawley
Weihnachtstranen - Charles Decroix

My watchlist is elsewhere, for purps of conv.

[flip]

another year i've seen minimally

A Trip to Mars (Ashley Miller)

The Automatic Moving Company (Emile Cohl)
The Acrobatic Fly / The Balancing Bluebottle (F Percy Smith)
Max is Stuck Up (Lucien Nonguet, probably)
King Lear (Gerolamo Lo Savio)

[greennui]

Santa Lucia (Piero Marelli)
The Italian Switzerland (Piero Marelli)
From the Verbano to Switzerland Through the Gotthard (Piero Marelli)
From Sorrento to Amalfi (Piero Marelli)
A Trip through Berlin (Unknown)
Aufregende Lektüre (Johann Schwarzer)
SS Olympic (Unknown)
The Birth Of A Flower (F. Percy Smith)
The Unchanging Sea (D.W. Griffith)
The Oval Portrait (Léonce Perret)
The Abyss (Urban Gad)
King Lear (Gerolamo Lo Savio)

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"Wolf Hunting in Russia" (unknown, 1910)

[rischka]

the abyss!! i'll watch more but doubt anything can top asta!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAEn_qbr0M

available on youtube with various soundtracks

[sally]

i don't think the abyss is a great film, it's alright, but THAT scene transcends in sheer sexiness everything i've ever seen committed to film (to the screen is another story, one that involves a george osborne tv interview in a field in wales in 2015 that sublimely recalls genet's s&m, but that's probably just unique to me)


so for that, endlessly, there can be no other winner of 1910 other than asta's chasm, but i'll probably watch some more for it just for fun.

seen and lencho criteria:
the abyss
anything piero marelli did ♥♥♥ (thanks greennui for that tip, these are wonderful)
bradford under snow - HP Ltd
the unchanging sea
wolf-hunting in russia
the aerial submarine

apparently i've seen some of the other 86 films griffith made in 1910 but i don't remember them so might as well watch (a few) again.

and www.stumfilm.dk has some from 1910, none of them have subtitles apart from the abyss, but they've all been restored and a recruit from 64 in particular is so pristine it looks like it was filmed yesterday, so i may watch them anyway.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Just watched three 1910 newsreels of suffragette demonstrations in England, I imagine others will be interested to see them as well. Titles: London. Suffragette Riots at Westminster; Mass Meeting of Suffragettes ; Suffragette Demonstration in London (June 1910) or Demonstration of Suffragettes (https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 910-online). Some of the more heart-expanding footage I've ever seen.

[greennui]

It's kinda frustrating how little information there is about Piero Marelli online. His name on imdb is misspelled as 'Pietro' with a lot of questionable entries and Tripoli (1912) is attributed to him yet I can't find any conclusive proof about it.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I found a blog post by a scholar, about him last night. I'll try to find it again.

Agreed, though, he's completely under the radar. There's not even an entry on him in Richard Abel's mammoth and authoritative Encyclopedia of Early Cinema!

Edit: here's the post I mentioned, but actually it's about his studio Pasquali and only mentions Marelli briefly. https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/ ... -film.html

Still not much info, i want more too

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

bradford under snow - HP Ltd

Bradford Under Snow was ghosts of winters past goodness ! Thanks for the rec 2DM!

[sally]

and again...............little to no info about the film(makers)....i'm not even sure it is 1910, but on the absence of any conflicting evidence...

(but definitely winters past. can confirm, no snow in bradford this winter as yet. which is not normal)

[Lencho of the Apes]

1910 version of Vertigo, LE PORTRAITE OVALE, thought to be by Leonce Perret. Scotty/Madeleine/Judy is expressed in a way halfway between ETA Hoffman and Feuillade, so naturally I love the shit out of it.

Do I need to translate the title cards from the french to get this a wider audience? (Wouldn't take long, I reckon...) It rules.

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Judy making herself over as Madeleine so Scotty will loooooooooooooove her.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

OMG lencho's finds are so good ! adding to my queue for sure!

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Do I need to translate the title cards from the french to get this a wider audience? (Wouldn't take long, I reckon...) It rules.

i haven't watched it yet, but the version on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-fhvHHXYYo

seems to have english titles throughout if you click the cc button. quality looks good too

[sally]

OMG lencho's finds are so good ! adding to my queue for sure!

absolutely! i'm basically just waiting for you and lencho to watch a few more, and that's pretty much all my guidance for watching 1910. (and other years)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

absolutely! i'm basically just waiting for you and lencho to watch a few more, and that's pretty much all my guidance for watching 1910. (and other years)

grazie mille !

incidentally, i don't think i'll vote for it, but i thought of you well watching La Tournee des Grand Ducs; it's a parody of French high society folks slumming it by going to a Parisian underworld dive to watch 'an Apache dance', which features a gal who looks rather like Asta Nielsen putting on a quite feral tortured love sub-dom show with her fella. all in good fun, of course.

hmmm, can't find it on youtube; i can share if interested, or not if not.

[rischka]

absolutely! i'm basically just waiting for you and lencho to watch a few more, and that's pretty much all my guidance for watching 1910. (and other years)

grazie mille !

incidentally, i don't think i'll vote for it, but i thought of you well watching La Tournee des Grand Ducs; it's a parody of French high society folks slumming it by going to a Parisian underworld dive to watch 'an Apache dance', which features a gal who looks rather like Asta Nielsen putting on a quite feral tortured love sub-dom show with her fella. all in good fun, of course.

hmmm, can't find it on youtube; i can share if interested, or not if not.

Plz?

[sally]

oooh, yes, thank you!

there's just....something....about long dead people doing sexy dances.....

and glad to see rischka back with us!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Un matrimonio interplanetario (Italy) -- An Earth astronomer and a Mars astronomer fall in love and try to have a long-distance relationship through telegraphic media and Meliesian contraption magic. Rather sweet and has a sense of wonder. Well worth seeing (it's up on Vimeo).

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

1910 version of Vertigo, LE PORTRAITE OVALE, thought to be by Leonce Perret.

Just finished up my 1910 viewing with this poignant gem. Another day, another golden find by Lencho.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Finished my viewing for this, so herein lies my final votes. Though of course if anyone makes further finds in their viewing, I'll be sure to catch those too and update as necessary. 20 favs, I quite like them all, a rich year for fans of early cinema.

1. Suffragette Demonstration in London (June 1910) (Pathe, UK)
White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America (James Young Deer, USA)
Mass Meeting of Suffragettes (Pathe, UK)
Un matrimonio interplanetario (Enrico Novelli, Italy)
Santa Lucia (Piero Marelli, Italy)
Impressions of Spain (Piero Marelli, Italy)
From Sorrento to Amalfi (Piero Marelli, Italy)
The Italian Switzerland (Piero Marelli, Italy)
Le Portrait Ovale (Léonce Perret, France)
Les timidités de Rigadin (Georges Monca, France)
Works and Workers of Denton Holme (The North of England Film Bureau, UK)
A Trip through Berlin (Deutsche Mutoskop und Biograph, Germany)
London. Suffragette Riots at Westminster (Pathe, UK)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Otis Turner, USA)
The Aerial Submarine (Walter R. Booth, UK)
Dutch Types (Pathé, France)
Max Takes a Bath (Lucien Nonguet, France)
Anita Garibaldi (Mario Caserini, Italy)
L’apprenti aviateur (Gaumont, France)
Ramona (D.W. Griffith, USA)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

OMG ! Harpodeon just posted a preview for a new 1910 film they've restored and added to their library: The Men Haters Club (Vitagraph), When a letter from another woman falls from her boyfriend's pocket, she and her friends form the Men Haters Club. Starring Florence Turner, Edith Storey, and Rose Tapley. I'm not a misandrist, but... I think I'll cough up the couple dollars for it now even though I expect it'll be spotlighted as a free now showing soon enough.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Sounds like a mirror-image of Griffy's The Newlyweds ,where a jilted fiance joins a woman-haters club. Seems to have been an idea that was 'in the air' somehow. There's also a western called The Woman-Hater, similar premise.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Sounds like a mirror-image of Griffy's The Newlyweds ,where a jilted fiance joins a woman-haters club. Seems to have been an idea that was 'in the air' somehow. There's also a western called The Woman-Hater, similar premise.

True. 1912's Petticoat Camp, which I quite like, is a similar idea as well.

[rischka]

suffragettes fever making the men nervous i reckon

where is greg i wonder. hope you're well greg!

thx for that sci fi tip evelyn

[Lencho of the Apes]

"that sci-fi tip" which I just picked up on yesterday and still have to watch... and thanks for Le Grand Duc. That reveal at the end was so French.

Andre Chenier (Etienne Arnaud, Louis Feuillade) also gets the nod, Louis being next-level as usual.

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[ofrene]

The Oval Portrait

The Automatic Moving Company
The Grand Duke's Tour
The Unchanging Sea

[sally]

Andre Chenier (Etienne Arnaud, Louis Feuillade) also gets the nod, Louis being next-level as usual.

it's 1911 on imdb?

[Lencho of the Apes]

1911?

Oh, bugger. It is indeed.