1905 Poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1905 (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 1905 lists will be Tuesday, September 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Toppermost

Coney Island At Night
Dream Of The Moon
The Hen That Laid The Golden Eggs - Gasron Velle
The King Of Dollars-
El llenador de sillas
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach -
The Night Before Christmas - Porter
Rescued By Rover-
The White Caps- Porter, McCutcheon

[greennui]

1. The Hairdresser

New York Subway (Billy Bitzer)
Coney Island at Night (Edwin S. Porter)
Grandma Despina (Janaki/Milton Manaki)
Alice Guy Films a ‘Phonoscène’ in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
England v. Ireland at Manchester

[flip]

from that decade, probably the year from which i've seen the fewest films i like, probably just need to explore some more:

New York Subway (Billy Bitzer)

La Table Magique (Segundo de Chomon)
Le Roi des Dollars (Segundo de Chomon)
Le Diable Noir (Georges Melies)
L'Album Merveilleux (Gaston Velle)

[sally]

apparently i've seen 0 films from 1905. rubbish!

but i have the gaumont treasures dvd which has 17 alice guy films from 1905, so pretty sure she's going to make my final list when i get round to watching them

[liquidnature]

The Night Before Christmas (Porter)
Le roi des dollars / King of Dollars (Chomón)
Los guapos del parque (Chomón)

[---]

1. "The Night Before Christmas" (Edwin S. Porter, 1905)

"Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus" (Georges Méliès, 1905)
"The Palace of the Arabian Nights" (Georges Méliès, 1905)
"Clown, Dog and Balloon" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1905)

[sally]

so i've watched all the alice guy 1905 ones on the gaumont dvd, and came away with more appreciation for her than i did before, she's interested in it all, documentation, experimentation, entertainment, and chickens. the prettiest and most interesting for me turns out to be 1907 on imdb so gah (alice guy films a phonoscene) but seeing a bloke singing, in colour (alright, tinting), with synced sound, from 1905, is pretty mindblowing. could hardly tell it wasn't from some shit variety show on tv in the 50's - and that dranem guy could be maurice chevalier's father.

read too much into 'the statue' but then in this surreal little episode i just felt judged (2 minutes of mad eye):

[rischka]

how come i never saw this before

i've got the porter night before christmas and melies' living playing cards (typical melies magician stuff so will attempt to find something better)

[sally]

still plugging away at this. edwin s porter is such an interesting film maker. is the miller's daughter really 1905? wouldn't be that much out of place 10 years later

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

1. La fée aux fleurs (Gaston Velle)
Le roi des dollars (Segundo de Chomón)
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (Willy Mullens)
Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. (G.W. Bitzer)
Les cartes vivantes (Georges Méliès)
Special March Past of St. Joseph's Scholars and Special Parade of St. Matthew's Pupils, Blackburn (Mitchell & Kenyon)
Halifax Catholic Procession (Mitchell & Kenyon)
Le diable noir (Georges Méliès)
Martyrs chrétiens (Lucien Nonguet)
La charité du prestidigitateur (Alice Guy)
Rescued by Rover (Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil M. Hepworth)

[sally]

the white caps is one of the most nightmarish early films i've seen, not particularly groundbreaking, but incredibly effective

the white caps (mccutcheon, porter)
the miller's daughter (mccutcheon, porter)
the misadventure of a french gentleman without pants at the zandvoort beach (mullens)
king of dollars / le roi des dollars (segundo de chomón)
new york subway (billy bitzer)
félix mayol performs “indiscreet questions” (alice guy-blaché)
the unfortunate policeman (robert w paul)
the statue (alice guy-blaché)
coney island at night (porter)
the living playing cards / les cartes vivantes (méliès)
christian martyrs / martyrs chrétiens (lucien nonguet)
flower fairy / la fée aux fleurs (gaston velle)
baby's toilet (hepworth)
cook & rilly’s trained rooster / le coq dressé de cook et rilly (alice guy-blaché)
falsely accused (fitzhamon)
the capture of roma / la presa di roma 20 settembre 1870 (filoteo alberini)
the wonderful album / l'album merveilleux (gaston velle)
our new errand boy (james williamson)
the hen that laid the golden eggs / la poule aux oeufs d'or (gaston velle)
rescued by rover (hepworth, fitzhamon)

[Lencho of the Apes]

The party' almost over. In about ten hours, 1905 will be history.

[Lencho of the Apes]

This thing
has now been
disenthinged

[Lencho of the Apes]

1
The King Of Dollars-
new york subway (billy bitzer)
The Night Before Christmas - Porter

4
Coney Island At Night

5
the flower fairy / la fée aux fleurs (gaston velle)
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach -
Rescued By Rover-
The White Caps- Porter, McCutcheon

9 - 14
The Hen That Laid The Golden Eggs - Gasron Velle
the living playing cards / les cartes vivantes (méliès)
christian martyrs / martyrs chrétiens (lucien nonguet)
the wonderful album / l'album merveilleux (gaston velle)
Le diable noir (Georges Méliès)
The Hairdresser