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Choose your favorite films from 1902 (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 1902 lists will be Wednesday, Jan 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

Seen and had feelings for

Alcohol And It's Victims - Ferdinand Zecca
Ali baba And The Forty Thieves - Ferdinand Zecca
How To Stop A Motorcar - Percy Stowe
Jack And The Beanstalk - Edwin S Porter
The Little Match Seller - James Williamson
Midwife To The Upper Class/Sage-Femme de Premiere Classe - Alice Guy
A Trip To The Moon - George Melies

I'm not going to bother posting a watchlist, because everything I'm likely to dig up will be off youtube, focused on searching for "1902." If anyone wants to mention other sites that supplement YT with other material, I'll check those out as well.

we have definitely done 1901 already because i remember getting excited about the big swallow and the arrest of goudie which i loved.

Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (Frederick Armitage)

The India Rubber Head (Georges Melies)
The Big Swallow (James Williamson)
La Maison Tranquille (Georges Melies)
Off to Bloomingdale Asylum (Georges Melies)
Artistic Creation (Walter Booth)
The Ghost Train (Frederick Armitage)
Stop Thief! (James Williamson)
The Haunted Curiosity Shop (Walter Booth)
Fire! (James Williamson)
History of a Crime (Ferdinand Zecca)
The Brahmin and the Butterfly (Georges Melies)

https://letterboxd.com/rischka/list/1901-poll/

exactly one year ago

So sorry! Make it 1902, then, and I'll correct all the paperwork forthwith.

1. Alfred Raymond, Agnes May, & Wilfred Sydney (Edward Raymond Turner)

Danses cosmopolites à transformation (Unknown)
The Little Match Seller (James Williamson)
Serpentine Dance by Lina Esbrard (Alice Guy-Blaché)
Burnley v Manchester United (Unknown)
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique (Georges Méliès)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès)

okay ignore my previous 1901 ballot

The Little Match Seller (James Williamson)
The Magic Sword (Walter Booth)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies)
La Fee Printemps (Segundo de Chomon and Ferdinand Zecca)
Loie Fuller (Segundo de Chomon)
Les Chiens Savants (Alice Guy-Blache)

My votes:

1. The Little Match Seller (James Williamson)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ferdinand Zecca)
Pas de deux (Peter Elfelt)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies)
How to Stop a Motorcar (Percy Stow)
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity (American Mutoscope & Biograph)
The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, But He Fools Them (American Mutoscope & Biograph)
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (Edwin S. Porter)
Scene on Lower Broadway (Robert K. Bonine)
Starting a Skyscraper (Robert K. Bonine)
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (Alice Guy-Blaché)
The Treasures of Satan (Georges Melies)
Midwife to the Upper Class (Alice Guy-Blaché)
Jack and the Beanstalk (Edwin S. Porter)

Early cinema forever

1. How to Stop a Motorcar (Stow)

A Trip to the Moon (Melies)
Fox Terriers and Rats (unknown)
The Little Match Seller (Williamson)
An Impossible Balancing Feat (Melies)
Skiing Scene in Quebec (unknown)

The Little Match Seller
...

Likely final list

A Trip to the Moon (lean towards the colorized version, but I suppose there won't be a distinction between them for the poll)

The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique (Melies)
Babies Rolling Eggs (Porter)
The Little Match Seller (Williamson)
Starting a Skyscraper (Bonine)
The Great Local Derby: Accrington v Church Cricket Match (Mitchell and Kenyon)
Rudge and Whitworth, Britain’s Best Bicycle (British Mutoscope and Biograph Company)
Tram Rides through Nottingham (Mitchell and Kenyon)
The Human Fly (Melies)
Danses cosmopolites à transformation (Pathé Frères)
Mustard Footbath
Electric Tram Rides from Forster Square, Bradford (Mitchell & Kenyon)
Working Rotary Snow Ploughs on Lehigh Valley Railroad
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity (Bonine)
Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (Melies)
Kingston Rowing Club at Practice
The Spring Fairy (de Chomón)
Jack and the Beanstalk (Porter)
Electric Tram Rides from Forster Square, Bradford
Little Miss Lillian (Warwick Trading Company)

My final list.

Midwife To The Upper Class/Sage-Femme de Premiere Classe - Alice Guy

Alcohol And It's Victims - Ferdinand Zecca
Ali baba And The Forty Theives - Ferdinand Zecca
How To Stop A Motorcar - Percy Stowe
Jack And The Beanstalk - Edwin S Porter
The Little Match Seller - James Williamson
A Trip To The Moon - George Melies

KOHEU and stuff.

Did this thing not get a thing in the place?

EDIT, no, of course it didn't, because I compiled the thing but never posted it.

::insert chet hanks joke here::

1
The Little Match Seller - James Williamson

2
A Trip To The Moon - George Melies

3
How To Stop A Motorcar - Percy Stowe

4
Jack And The Beanstalk - Edwin S Porter
Midwife To The Upper Class/Sage-Femme de Premiere Classe - Alice Guy

6 - 13
Alfred Raymond, Agnes May, & Wilfred Sydney (Edward Raymond Turner)
Ali baba And The Forty Theives - Ferdinand Zecca
Danses cosmopolites à transformation (Pathé Frères)
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity (Bonine)
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (Alice Guy-Blaché)
The Spring Fairy (de Chomón)
Starting a Skyscraper (Bonine)
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique (Melies)

yikes i forgot to even vote in this poll, sorry lencho!

a trip to the moon didn't win? we are officially the most indie cinephiles on the internet