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.
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 |