Champions of the first 1,000 titles
IMDB was created on October 17, 1990. Every title and name has a code based on the page imdb created for it. Like having a social security number. What films and TV in the early 1990s were known enough to make it into the first 1000 titles? Note: There is no 21, 311, 600, 635, 652, 702, 710, 735, 937, or 973.
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- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsCarmencitaPerforming on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.
- DirectorÉmile ReynaudLost short film consisting of 300 painted images. It shows a clown entering a circus ring and greeting the audience before he starts to perform tricks with three dogs. The dogs jump through hoops, walk on a ball and jump over a wand.
- DirectorÉmile ReynaudOne night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.
- DirectorÉmile ReynaudLost 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud about a wanderer who orders a good beer ("Un bon bock") and meets a traveler who also orders a beer. They enter an argument because a kitchen boy steals their beers.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsCharles KayserJohn OttThree men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. Dickson
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsJames J. CorbettPeter CourtneyJames J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsFred OttA man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
- DirectorAlexander BlackStarsBlanche BaylissWilliam CourtenayChauncey DepewThe adventures of a female reporter in the 1890s.
- DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyStarsGrunatoThe fifth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, eight circus performers known as the Grunato Family perform their famous balancing act.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreP.J.C. JanssenThe photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFrançois ClercBenoît DuvalAn impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- DirectorÉmile ReynaudPre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsMrs. Auguste LumiereJeanne-Joséphine LumièreThree men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
- DirectorEmil SkladanowskyMax SkladanowskyStarsPloetzLarellaThe first sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyStarsDelawareThe third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
- DirectorJames WilliamsonClown cuts off customer's head and replaces it.
- DirectorBirt AcresA stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the race is over, police officers run onto the infield. The crowd moves around.
- DirectorBirt AcresA stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the race is over, police officers run onto the infield. The crowd moves around.
- DirectorLouis LumièreTwo blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.
- DirectorLouis LumièreSeveral little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
- DirectorBirt AcresStarsEmpress Augusta VictoriaKaiser Wilhelm II
- DirectorBirt AcresAlthough the content of this film is primitive in the extreme - a shot of the traditional Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race, filmed on March 30 1895 - this film is of immense historical importance as being the first ever British film
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAntoine FéraudAntoine LumièreFélicien TreweyTwo men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and fronts of four buildings, each four or five stories tall. It's a busy thoroughfare, with pedestrians walking in front of the buildings and crossing the boulevard between horse-drawn vehicles. A double-decker bus passes in front of us, pulled by two horses. Various tradesmen pass on wagons. One van passes.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAndrée LumièreAuguste LumièreA baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreMrs. Auguste LumiereAndrée LumièreAs part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
- DirectorBirt AcresRobert W. PaulThe sea is quite rough, and at Dover a series of heavy waves pounds against a pier and along the adjacent shoreline. The scene then shifts to a different view of flowing water, and shows a heavy current from a point along a riverbank.
- DirectorLouis LumièreOutdoors, with a nondescript building in the background, four men stand, each holding the corner of a blanket stretched parallel to the ground. They wear the clothes of laborers. By the back corner on our left stands a uniformed man who seems in charge. A sixth man stands back from the blanket about six paces; he runs forward and takes a leap but stops at the edge of the blanket and is upbraided by the uniformed gent. The same thing happens a second time, but the next three times, he completes a flip, landing on his back in the middle of the blanket, and the four then boost him out toward the camera. The final time seems like it will be his last for awhile.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyStarsAncionThe seventh sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a young female dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably features a person watering flowers to comedic effect. This film is believed to have imitated the Louis and Auguste Lumière film "L'arroseur arrose", which survives.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably features a person watering flowers to comedic effect. This film is believed to have imitated the Louis and Auguste Lumière film "L'arroseur arrose", which survives.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThe film was shown tenth and completed the famous first paid Lumière cinema show of the ten films in Paris in the basement "Grand Cafe" on the Boulevard des Capucines 28 December 1895. Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean. Also known as "A Dip in the Sea".
- DirectorWilliam HeiseStarsScoops CareyZane GreyScott Stratton"The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the bag, and the satisfied grin of the runner is great as he touches first and gets up on his toes for second. Next man cracks first ball pitched for a two-bagger, and races for the base with a wonderful burst of speed. First baseman just misses a put out. Very exciting. Man on the coaching line yells, and umpire runs up and makes decision. Small boy runs past back of the catcher close to the grand stand, where there is great commotion. A most excellent subject, treated brilliantly."
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorLouis LumièrePeople start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsLittle is known of this lost film; presumably it featured one or more threshing machines.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film, among the earliest by Georges Méliès, presumably featured the use of a bivouac sack for a soldier encampment.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably features women washing clothing.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorBirt Acres
- DirectorBirt AcresStage boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorgette MélièsLittle is known about this lost film, which presumably features young baby girls.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsVery little is known of this lost film; according to the title it featured a gypsy camp.
- DirectorGabriel VeyreIn three successive waves, civil guard riders quickly cross the plain.
- DirectorFrancisco Pinto Moreira
- DirectorGeorges MélièsVery little is known of this lost Georges Melies film, but the title indicates it may have featured children riding a merry-go-round.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorHenry Short
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsTsar Nicholas IITsarina Alexandra
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsTsar Nicholas II
- DirectorGeorges MélièsLittle is known about this lost film, which presumably features a coronation of the rosary, or a celebration of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. Dickson"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."
- DirectorBirt AcresStarsAlhambra Girls
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film is speculated to have featured a serpentine dance, possibly in an imitation of the Edison Studios' "Annabelle" films, except with a different dancer.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the statesman and historian Adolphe Thiers with stunning rapidity.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the statesman and Liberal Unionist Joseph Chamberlain with stunning rapidity.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing Her Majesty H. M. Queen Victoria with stunning rapidity.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismark with stunning rapidity.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsA soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreAuguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsVery little is known about this lost film, but according to the title it possibly featured large waves crashing against jagged, black rocks on a coast.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsAs an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJoseph JeffersonThe third of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip helps the dwarf carrying the barrel into the mountains.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorAurélio da Paz dos ReisCampinos on horseback drive small herds of cattle through the vast area of the traditional fair, before prospective buyers.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorWilliam K.L. Dickson"A colored woman washing a little pickaninny. Very funny, and especially pleasing to children."
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsLittle is known about this lost film, which presumably features a gardener.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorAuguste LumièreAlexandre PromioA train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk along the track, tipping their hats when the train departs. When it approaches the station building more people are seen, people of different ethnicity and religion. Some men wear fezzes on their heads and canes in their hands. A Franciscan monk comes walking in the middle of a mixed group of people. The platform outside the station is crowded with people waiting for the next train. Among them is a man with a sword at his side. The big windows of the station are covered with shutters. After the station the train passes a long fence, enclosing a lumberyard.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsWith the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis Lumière
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsElise de Vère
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably features the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès