Best film of the 1890s

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Nice article on the AV club today http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-10-best-films-of-the-1890s,87648/ Pick your favourite, most historically significant, whatever. Or just talk about the early history of cinema.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
“The Four Troublesome Heads” (1898)	5
“Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory In Lyon” (1895)	2
“Arrival Of A Train At La Ciotat Station” (1896)	2
“The Dickson Experimental Sound Film” (1894)	1
“The X-Ray Fiend” (1897)	0
“The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots” (1895)	0
“La Fée Aux Choux” (1896)	0
“The Kiss” (1896)	0
“Cinderella” (1899)	0
“The Haunted Castle” (1896)	0
Something else	0

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 19 October 2012 17:48 (thirteen years ago)

This should be on the list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jwTCcXW2Y&hd=1

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 19 October 2012 17:48 (thirteen years ago)

Excellent piece! "Troublesome Heads" for me. Imagine seeing that as your first or even tenth moving image, and Melies is such a dude.

― Soukesian, Friday, 19 October 2012 17:57 (thirteen years ago)

Seen about half of these and will also be going for "Troublesome Heads", though I'm sure there's other Melies that I like better from that era...

― emil.y, Friday, 19 October 2012 19:14 (thirteen years ago)

voted for

Legend, almost certainly apocryphal, has is that spectators fled from the theater the first time the Lumières showed their landmark film, so real was the locomotive hurtling toward the lens. But the tale survives because it captures what was, no doubt, the world-altering shock those spectators must have had seeing a still image suddenly come to life.

― the late great, Friday, 19 October 2012 19:31 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

not having seen all of them, "workers"....sublime

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 00:39 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 25 October 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

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