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Silent Film Research at the Library for the Performing Arts: Films - 1900 to 1904

A guide to the films and Special Collections held at the Library for the Performing Arts that document the Silent Film era.

Index to Films

NYPL holds more than 1100 individual titles from the Silent Film era, often in different physical media formats. These links will take you into the NYPL's catalog to see more complete information about each title and individual media format. Most of these media are from our circulating collections and can checked out for home viewing. A few media are part of our research collections and can be requested to view onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts. 

Index to Films - 1900 to 1904

Title Date Media Media
Sherlock Holmes baffled / directed by Arthur Marvin 1900 DVD  
The enchanted drawing / directed by J. Stuart Blackton 1900 VHS  
L'omnibus des toqués blancs et noirs = Off to Bloomingdale Asylum / directed by Georges Méliès 1901 DVD  
The streets of New York: What happened on Twenty-Third Street / directed by George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter 1901 DVD  
A trip to the moon / directed by Georges Melies 1902 DVD  
Éruption volcanique à la Martinique = Eruption of Mount Pele / directed by Georges Méliès 1902 DVD  
L'oeuf du sorcier = The prolific magical egg / directed by Georges Méliès 1902 DVD  
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show / directed by Edwin S. Porter 1902 DVD  
At the foot of the Flatiron / directed by A.E. Weed 1903 DVD  
La Fantaisie de Méliès / produced by Blackhawk Films 1903 16mm  
La flamme merveilleuse = The Mystical flame / directed by Georges Méliès 1903 DVD  
Life of an American fireman / directed by George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter 1903 DVD  
Little Tich and his big boots / directed by Alice Guy 1903 16mm  
New York City "ghetto" fish market / directed by Edwin S. Porter 1903 DVD  
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island / directed by Edwin S. Porter 1903 16mm  
The great train robbery / directed by Edwin S. Porter 1903 16mm DVD
An impossible voyage / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD  
Détresses et charité = The Christmas angel / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD  
Down in the deep / produced by Pathé Frères 1904 16mm  
Fighting the flames, Dreamland / produced by American Mutoscope and Biograph 1904 16mm  
Le banquet de Mesmer = A Mesmerian experiment / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD  
Le juif errant = The wandering Jew / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD  
Les apparitions fugitives = Fugitive apparitions / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD  
Les aventures de Robinson Crusoé = Robinson Crusoe (fragment) / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD  
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese conjuror / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD DVD
The cook in trouble / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD DVD
The ex-convict / directed by Edwin S. Porter 1904 16mm  
The great train robbery / directed by Siegmund Lubin 1904 16mm  
The impossible voyage / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 16mm DVD
The mermaid / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD DVD
The suburbanite / directed by Wallace McCutcheion 1904 DVD  
The untamable whiskers / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD DVD
The wonderful living fan / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD DVD
Un peu de feu s.v.p. = Every man his own cigar lighter (fragment) / directed by Georges Méliès 1904 DVD  
Westinghouse works / directed by G. W. Bitzer 1904 DVD