British films: Pre 1920
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List of British films from 1888 to 1919:
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[edit] 1888-1899
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1888 | ||||||
| Roundhay Garden Scene | Louis Le Prince | Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley | Live action | The earliest surviving film | ||
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| 1890 | ||||||
| Trafalgar Square traffic | Wordsworth Donisthorpe | Live action | 10 frames only, believed never shown publicly | |||
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| 1895 | ||||||
| The Clown Barber | James Williamson | Comedy | ||||
| The Derby | Birt Acres | Documentary | A silent film of that year's Derby | |||
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| Opening of the Kiel Canal | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
| The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race | Birt Acres | Documentary | A silent film of that year's race | |||
| Rough Sea at Dover | Birt Acres, Robert W. Paul | Documentary | ||||
| 1896 | ||||||
| Barnet Horse Fair | Robert W. Paul | Documentary | ||||
| The Boxing Kangaroo | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
| Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
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| 1897 | ||||||
| Weary Willie | ||||||
| Tipsy-Topsy-Turvy | ||||||
| The Sign Writer | ||||||
| Nursing the Baby | ||||||
| Making Sausages | ||||||
| The Maid in the Garden | ||||||
| The Haunted Castle | ||||||
| Hanging Out the Clothes | ||||||
| Gymnastics - Indian Club Performer | ||||||
| Comic Shaving | ||||||
| Comic Face | aka Man Drinking (UK) | |||||
| Children Paddling at the Seaside | ||||||
| The X-Ray Fiend | ||||||
| 1898 | ||||||
| Waves and Spray | ||||||
| The Runaway Knock | ||||||
| A Practical Joke | ||||||
| The Policeman, the Cook and the Copper | ||||||
| Photographing a Ghost | ||||||
| The Miller and the Sweep | ||||||
| The Mesmerist | ||||||
| The Lady Barber | ||||||
| Faust and Mephistopheles | ||||||
| The Corsican Brothers | ||||||
| Cinderella | ||||||
| Animated Clown Portrait | ||||||
| Ally Sloper | ||||||
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| 1899 | ||||||
| The Visit of Santa Claus | ||||||
| The Legacy | ||||||
| The Kiss in the Tunnel | ||||||
| A Good Joke | ||||||
| Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | ||||||
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[edit] 1900s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1900 | ||||||
| As Seen Through a Telescope | George Albert Smith | Short | ||||
| Grandma's Reading Glass | George Albert Smith | none | Drama | One minute film | ||
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| 1903 | ||||||
| Alice in Wonderland | Cecil Hepworth | May Clark | Fantasy Short | 8 minutes long | ||
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| 1907 | ||||||
| Ben Hur | Sidney Olcott | Herman Rottger, William S. Hart | Historical | 15 minutes long | ||
| The Sleigh Belle | Sidney Olcott | |||||
| The Pony Express | Sidney Olcott | |||||
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[edit] 1910s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1910 | ||||||
| The Blue Bird | Unknown | Pauline Gilmer, Olive Walter | Comedy | |||
| 1911 | ||||||
| Aerial Anarchists | Walter Booth | Science fiction | ||||
| A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization | Cherry Kearton | Drama | ||||
| Princess Clementina | William G.B. Barker | H.B. Irving, Alice Young, Dorothea Baird | Adventure | |||
| 1912 | ||||||
| With Our King and Queen Through India | Documentary | |||||
| 1913 | ||||||
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| 1914 | ||||||
| She Stoops to Conquer | George Loane Tucker | Henry Ainley, Jane Gail | Comedy | Based on the play by Oliver Goldsmith | ||
| A Study in Scarlet | George Pearson | James Bragington, Fred Paul | First film to feature Sherlock Holmes | |||
| 1915 | ||||||
| Fight for the Dardanelles | Percy F. Smith | World War I documentary | ||||
| 1916 | ||||||
| Beau Brocade | Thomas Bentley | Mercy Hatton, Charles Rock | Adventure/Drama | Based on a novel by Baroness Orczy | ||
| The Battle of the Somme | Geoffrey Malins, John McDowell | World War I | Documentary/Propaganda | |||
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| 1919 | ||||||
| The First Men in the Moon | Bruce Gordon, J.L.V. Leigh | Bruce Gordon, Heather Thatcher | Sci Fi/Fantasy | |||
[edit] External links
- IMDb [1]
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