The European pioneers
By: Kino International ; produced by Film Preservation Associates and the British Film Institute ; produced for video by Heather Stewart
Contributors: Salt, Barry; Lumiere, Auguste, 1862-1954; Lumiere, Louis, 1864-1948; Acres, Birt, 1854-1918; Smith, George Albert; Mottershaw, Frank; Haggar, Walter; Bamforth, James; Williamson, James A.; Sheffield Photographic Company; Haggar and Sons; Bamforth & Co; Williamsons' Kinematography Co; Film Preservation Associates; British Film Institute; Kino International Corporation
Series: Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914 -- 2
Publisher: Kino on Video
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Silent films; History; Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Cinematographers; Motion picture producers and directors
Other titles: Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914,; Treasury of early cinema 1894-1914,
Description: The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this 5-part collection of the cinema's formative works which reveal the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema would later evolve. This second program includes forty formative works by Louis Lumiere, Walter Haggar, R.W. Paul, George Albert Smith, James A. Williamson, James Bamforth, and other early filmmakers.
Notes: Originally produced in 1994.

Piano accompaniment by Neil Brand ; enclosed annotations by Charles Musser.

Commentary by Barry Salt.

DVD, NTSC.
Table of contents: title: Leaving the Lumiere factory (1895) ; The baby's meal (1895) ; Destruction of a wall (1896) ; The sprinkler sprinkled (1895) ; Arrival of congress members at Neuville-sur-Saone (1895) ; The arrival of a train at La Ciotat (1895) ; Card party (1895) ; Boat leaving the port (1895) / Louis Lumiere; title: Leaving Jerusalem by railway (1896); title: Snowball fight (1896); title: A fire run (Lyons) (1896); title: Niagara Falls (1896) / Alexandre Promio; title: Rough sea at Dover (1895) / Birt Acres; title: Come along do! (1898) ; The derby (1896) ; The countryman and the cinematograph (1901) ; A chess dispute (1903).; title: Extraordinary cab accident (1903) ; Buy your own cherries (1904) / R.W. Paul; title: The motorist (1906) / Walter R. Booth; title: The miller and the sweep (1898) ; The kiss in the tunnel (1899) ; Let me dream again (1900) ; Grandma's reading glass (1900) ; As seen through a telescope (1900) ; Sick kitten (1903) ; Mary Jane's mishap, or Don't fool with paraffin (1903) / G.A. Smith; title: Daring daylight burglary (1903) / Frank Mottershaw; title: Desperate poaching affray (1903) / Walter Haggard; title: Kiss in the tunnel (1899) ; Ladies' skirts nailed to a fence (1900) ; Bitter bit (1900) ; Rough sea (1900).; title: Bamforth and Company, Ltd.; title: Attack on a China mission (1900) ; The big swallow (1901) ; Stop thief (1901) ; Fire! (1901) / James Williamson; title: An interesting story (1905) / Williamson's Kinematograph Co.