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 |
L'ile de Calypso = The mysterious island / directed by Georges Méliès | 1905 | DVD | |
Max learns to skate / directed by Max Linder | 1905 | DVD | |
Rip's dream / directed by Georges Méliès | 1905 | 16mm | |
The black imp / directed by Georges Méliès | 1905 | DVD | DVD |
The enchanted sedan chair / directed by Georges Méliès | 1905 | DVD | DVD |
The life of an American policeman / directed by Edwin S. Porter | 1905 | 16mm | |
The living playing cards / directed by Georges Méliès | 1905 | DVD | DVD |
The scheming gambler's paradise / directed by Georges Méliès | 1905 | DVD | DVD |
The whole Dam family and the Dam dog / directed by Edwin S. Porter | 1905 | DVD |
Title | Date | Media | Media |
From Leadville to Aspen | 1906 | DVD | |
How the office boy saw the ball game (fragment) / produced by Thomas A. Edison Co. | 1906 | DVD | |
Humorous phases of funny faces / directed by J. Stuart Blackton | 1906 | VHS | |
Legend of Ponchinella / directed by Max Linder | 1906 | DVD | |
Les roses magiques = Magic roses / directed by Segundo de Chomón | 1906 | DVD | |
Max gets stuck up / directed by Max Linder | 1906 | DVD | |
Max takes a bath | 1906 | DVD | |
The dream of a rarebit fiend / directed by Edwin S. Porter | 1906 | 16mm | |
The hilarious posters / directed by Georges Méliès | 1906 | DVD | DVD |
The life of a cowboy / Edwin S. Porter | 1906 | DVD | |
The mysterious retort / directed by Georges Méliès | 1906 | DVD | DVD |
Transfigurations / directed by Émile Cohl | 1906 | DVD | |
Waiting at the church / directed by Edwin S. Porter | 1906 | DVD |
Title | Date | Media |
Cohen's fire sale / directed by Edwin S. Porter | 1907 | 16mm |
Deux cent milles sous les mers = Under the seas / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
El espectro rojo / directed by Segundo de Chomón and Ferdinand Zecca | 1907 | 16mm |
Good glue sticks / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
His first cigar / directed by Louis J. Gasnier | 1907 | DVD |
Jack the kisser / directed by Edwin S. Porter | 1907 | 16mm |
L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune = The courtship of Sun and Moon / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
Le dirigeable fantastique = The inventor crazybrains and his wonderful airship / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
Le mariage de Victoire = How Bridget's lover escaped / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
Robert Macaire et Bertrand = Robert Macaire and Bertrand / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
Satan en prison = Satan in prison / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
The "Teddy" bears / directed by Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon | 1907 | DVD |
The eclipse / directed by Georges Méliès | 1907 | DVD |
The golden beetle / directed by Ferdinand Zecca. | 1907 | DVD |
The policemen's litte run / directed by Ferdinand Zecca | 1907 | DVD |
Title | Date | Media | Media |
A fish in Astrakhan (1908) / produced by Pathé Frères | 1908 | VHS | |
Adventures of Dollie / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
Balked at the alter / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
Betrayed by a handprint / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
Calamitous elopement / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
Drama at the puppets' house / directed by Émile Cohl | 1908 | DVD | |
Drama in a Gypsy camp near Moscow / directed by Vladimir Siversen | 1908 | VHS | |
Excursion dans la lune = Excursion to the moon / directed by Segundo de Chomón | 1908 | DVD | |
Fantasmagoria / directed by Émile Cohl | 1908 | DVD | |
Father gets into the game / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
François 1er et Triboule = The king and the jester / directed by Georges Méliès | 1908 | DVD | |
Long distance wireless photography / directed by Georges Méliès | 1908 | DVD | DVD |
Max's hat / directed by Max Linder | 1908 | DVD | |
Money mad / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
Rescued from an eagle's nest / directed by J. Searle Dawley | 1908 | 16mm | |
Romance of a Jewess / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
Sten'ka razin / directed by Vladimir Romashkov | 1908 | VHS | |
Tempest / directed by Percy Stow | 1908 | VHS | |
The Adventures of Dollie / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | 16mm | DVD |
The Boutdebois brothers / directed by Émile Cohl | 1908 | DVD | |
The little soldier who became a god / directed by Émile Cohl | 1908 | DVD | |
The magic hoop / directed by Émile Cohl | 1908 | DVD | |
The puppet's nightmare / directed by Émile Cohl | 1908 | DVD | |
The song of the shirt / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1908 | VHS | |
The thieving hand / directed by J. Stuart Blackton | 1908 | DVD | |
Troubles of a grass widower / directed by Max Linder | 1908 | DVD |
Title | Date | Media | Media | Media |
A 16th century Russian wedding | 1909 | VHS | ||
A corner in wheat / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1909 | 16mm | DVD | DVD |
Affairs of the heart / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Comic mutations / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Cord of life / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1909 | VHS | ||
Crowns / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Curtain pole / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1909 | VHS | ||
Delicate porcelains / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
His last game / produced by Independent Moving Pictures Co. | 1909 | DVD | ||
Hydrothérapie fantastique = The doctor's secret / directed by Georges Méliès | 1909 | DVD | ||
Japanese fantasy/ directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Le papillon fantastique = The spider and the butterfly (fragment) / directed by Georges Méliès | 1909 | DVD | ||
Let's be sporty / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Matrimonial shoes / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Max fears the dogs / directed by Max Linder | 1909 | DVD | ||
Midsummer night's dream / directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Charles Kent | 1909 | VHS | ||
Modern eduacation / directed by Étienne Arnaud and Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Monsieur clown among the Lilliputians / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
Nero, or the fall of Rome / directed by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio | 1909 | DVD | ||
Princess Nicotine / directed by J. Stuart Blackton | 1909 | DVD | ||
Spanish clair de lune / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
The country doctor / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1909 | 16mm | DVD | |
The enchanted spectacles / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
The happy microbes / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
The living fan / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
The long arm of the law / directed by Roméo Bosetti | 1909 | DVD | ||
The next door neighbors / directed by Émile Cohl | 1909 | DVD | ||
The redman's view / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1909 | DVD | ||
The sealed room / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1909 | DVD | DVD | |
Those awful hats / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1909 | VHS | DVD | DVD |