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A list of science fiction films released before the 1920s . These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable
critics or film historians.
Title
Director
Cast
Country
Subgenre/Notes
1895
La Charcuterie mécanique
Lumière Brothers
Short film [1]
1897
Gugusse et l'Automate
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short film [2]
The X-Rays
George Albert Smith
1898
Les rayons Röntgen
Georges Méliès
1902
A Trip to the Moon
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short film
1907
20.000 Lieues Sous les Mers
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short film
The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and the Moon
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
1908
El hotel eléctrico
Segundo de Chomón
Segundo de Chomón
Short film [3] [4]
1909
Airship Destroyer
Walter R. Booth
Short film [5]
Viaje al planeta Júpiter
Segundo de Chomón
Segundo de Chomón
Short film [3] [4]
1910
Frankenstein
J. Searle Dawley
Augustus Phillips , Charles Stanton Ogle , Mary Fuller
Short film
Viaje al centro de la tierra
Segundo de Chomón
Segundo de Chomón
Short film [3] [4]
1911
Aerial Anarchists
Walter R. Booth
Short film
Little Moritz enlève Rosalie
Henri Gambard
Short film
1912
The Conquest of the Pole
George Melies
George Melies
Short film
1913
Amerika – Europa im Luftschiff
Alfred Lind
Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola
Marcel Fabre
A Message From Mars (1913 film)
J. Wallett Waller
1915
Der Kraftmeier
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch
William Voss
Rudolf Meinert
1916
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Stuart Paton
Leviticus Jones , Alan Holubar
Homunculus
Otto Rippert
Olaf Fønss , Friedrich Kuehne
Serial film [6]
Tales of Hoffman
Richard Oswald
Erich Kaiser-Titz , Werner Krauss
Titanenkampf
Joseph Delmont
Erich Kaiser-Titz
Verdens Undergang
August Blom
Alf Blütecher , Olaf Fønss , Johanne Fritz-Petersen
[7]
1917
Himmelskibet
Holger-Madsen
Ole Olsen
1918
Alraune
Michael Curtiz , Edmund Fritz
Géza Erdélyi , Gyula Gál
Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
Eugen Illés , Joseph Klein
Max Auzinger , Joseph Klein
The Master Mystery
Burton King
Harry Houdini , Ruth Stonehouse , William Pike , Floyd Buckley
Serial film[8] [9]
1919
Die Arche
Richard Oswald
Leo Connard , Eva Speyer
The First Men in the Moon
Bruce Gordon , J.L.V. Leigh
Bruce Gordon , Heather Thatcher , Lionel d'Aragon
The Mistress of the World
Joe May
Mia May , Michael Bohnen , Hans Mierendorff
See also
References
^ Hardy, Phil (1994). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction . Overlook Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-87951-626-7 .
^ Benson, Michael (2002). Fighting Robots: A Guide to Radio-controlled Combatants . Citadel Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-8065-2372-7 .
^ a b c Jiménez, Jesús (18 February 2012). "La ciencia ficción, un género tan raro en el cine español como estimulante" . rtve (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2016 .
^ a b c Merelo, Alfonso (14 December 2004). "Ecine de ciencia ficción en españa: Una aproximación" . Ciencia-ficcion.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2016 .
^ Paris, Michael (1995). From the Wright brothers to Top gun: aviation, nationalism, and popular cinema . Manchester University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-7190-4074-4 .
^ Prince, Stephen (2004). The Horror Film . Rutgers University Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-8135-3363-5 .
^ Mitry, Jean (1965). Filmographie Universelle (in French). Vol. 5. Paris, France: Institut des hautes Etudes cinématographiques. p. 155.
^ Wollstein, Hans J. "The Master Mystery (1918)" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-06-19 .
^ Telotte, J. P. (1999). A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age . Wesleyan University Press. p. 100. ISBN 0-8195-6346-3 .