Container of (work): May Irwin kiss (Motion picture : 1896)
Notes:
Curated by Steven Higgins and Charles Musser. Originally issued as a compilation in 2005. Extras include: Two hours of video interviews with cinema scholars, discussing specific films, the Edison Studios, and efforts to preserve the Edison legacy; photo archives of more than 200 documents from MoMA's Edison Collection; detailed film notes by Charles Musser, the world's leading authority on the Edison studio. Performers include: Eugen Sandow, Fred Ott, May Irwin, John C. Rice, Annie Oakley, Anabella, Gilbert M. Anderson, Marc McDermott,
Contents:
(1903). The great train robbery Monkeyshines, no. 1 ; Dickson greeting ; Newark athlete (with indian clubs); Men Boxing (1889-1891) -- Blacksmithing scene (1893) -- The Barber shop (1893) -- Edison Kinetoscopic record of a sneeze (1894) -- Athlete with a wand (1894) -- Sandow (1894) -- Carmencita (1894) -- Boxing cats (1894) -- Caicedo with pole (1894) -- Annabelle buttefly dance (1894) -- Cockfight no. 2 (1894) -- Corbett and Courtney before the kinetograph (1894) -- Sioux ghost dance (1894) -- Buffalo dance (1894) -- The Hornbacker-Murphy fight (1894) -- Hadj Cheriff, Arab knife juggler (1894) -- Glenroy Bros. no. 2 (1894) -- Louis Martinetti, contortionist (1894) -- Bucking broncho (1894) -- Annie Oakley (1894) -- Imperial Japanese dance (1894) -- Robetta and Doretto, Chinese laundry scene (1894) -- Band drill (1894) -- Fire rescue (1894) -- Billy Edwards and the unknown (1895) -- Dickson experimental sound fillm (1895) -- Princess Ali, Egyptian dance (1895) -- Anabelle serpentine dance (1895) -- The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) -- Amy Muller (1896) -- The John C. Rice-May Irwin kiss (1896) -- Shooting the chutes (1896) -- Fatima, muscle dancer (1896, original and censored versions) -- Mess call (1896) -- Inventor Edison sketched by world artist (1896, with J. Stuart Blackton) -- Watermelon eating contest (1896) -- The lone fisherman (1896) -- Interrupted lovers (1896) -- Feeding the doves (1896) -- A morning bath (1896) -- The burning stable (1896) -- Mounted police charge (1896) -- McKinley parade (1896) -- Going to the fire (1896) -- A morning alarm (1896) -- Black diamond express (1896) -- American Falls from above, American side (1896) -- The first sleigh ride (1896) -- The morning alarm (1896) -- Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory (1897) -- Return of lifeboat (1897) -- Troop ships for the Phlippines (1898) -- U.S. troops landing at Daiquiri, Cuba (1898) -- The Burglar on the roof (1898) -- Firemen rescuing men and women (1899) -- A wringing good joke (1899) -- Gold rush scenes in the Klondike (1899) -- Searching ruins on Broadway for dead bodies, Galveston (1900) -- The Kiss (1900) -- Capture of Boer battery by British (1900) -- A storm at sea (1900) -- Old maid having her picture taken (1901) -- High diving scene (1901) -- Photographing a country couple (1901) -- What happened on twenty-third street, New York City (1901) -- Pan-American Exposition by night (1901) -- Trapeze disrobing act (1901) -- The burning of Durland's Riding Academy (1902) --Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) -- Electrocuting an elephant (1903) -- The life of an American fireman (1903) -- Egyptian Fakir with dancing monkey (1903) -- A scrap in black and white (1903) -- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903) -- The Gay shoe clerk (1903) -- Turning the tables (1903) -- What happened in the tunnel (1903) -- The great train robbery (1903). (1907). The "Teddy" bears (1904) -- How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns (1904) -- The strenuous life; or, anti-race suicide (1904) -- The ex-convict (1904) -- The Klepto-maniac (1905) -- The seven ages (1905) -- The whole Dam family and the Dam dog (1905) -- Coney Island at night (1905) -- The little train robbery (1905) -- The white caps (1905) -- The miller's daughter (1905) -- Train wreckers (1905) -- Life of an American policeman (1905) -- Police chasing scorching auto (1905) -- The dream of a rarebit fiend (1906) -- Three American beauties (1906) -- Films of the San Francisco Earthquake (1906) -- The terrible kids (1906) -- Kathleen Mavourneen (1906) -- Getting evidence (1906) -- The "Teddy" bears (1907). (1913). An unsullied shield (1907) -- The rivals (1907) -- The trainer's daughter; or, A race for love (1907) -- College chums (1907) -- Laughing gas (1907) -- A little girl who did not believe in Santa Claus (1907) -- A suburbanite's ingenious alarm (1908) -- Rescued from an eagle's nest (1908) -- Fireside reminiscences (1908) -- Cupid's pranks (1908) -- Tale the autumn leaves told (1908, fragment) -- The house of cards (1909) -- New York of today (1910) -- Hop Bumptious papered the parlor (1910) -- Thirty days at hard labor (1912) -- The passer-by !g (1912) -- The totville eye (1912) -- The public and private care of infants (1912) -- An unsullied shield (1913). (1918) / The Unbeliever (1913) -- The ambassador's daughter (1913) -- A serenade by proxy (1913) -- All on account of a transfer (1913) -- One touch of nature (1914) -- The adventure of the hasty elopement (1914) -- The wonders of magnetism (1915) -- Black eyes (1915) -- The lone game (1915) -- The Unbeliever (1918) / directed by Alan Crosland ; starring Erich Von Stroheim, Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee.
Summary:
"A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Movies is a monumental collection of 140 archival motion pictures. From 19th century camera tests never intended for public screening to the last feature-length film released by the Thomas A. Edison Studios in 1918 (The Unbeliever), the collection is digitally mastered with musical scores, surrounded by a wealth of historical documents and interviews with leading film archivists and historians."--Container.
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