This time: Advances in animation, strange, dreamlike color projection, Méliès has a bum year, Segundo de Chomón makes Undead Fury Road, and the racist father of American Cinema D.W. Griffith gets his first role. So in order: cool, cool, aw sad, rad AF, booooooo.
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--- Potpourri ---
Fantasmagorie
Stenka Razin
The Assassination of the Duke of Guise
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (lost)
The Runaway Horse
A Visit to the Seaside
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (lost)
--- Manuel Makes a Mess, or is it Monsieur Méliès? ---
The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess
Sideshow Wrestlers
Tribulation, or Misfortunes of a Cobbler
--- The Chomón and Only ---
Excursion to the Moon
The Frog
Electric Hotel
The Haunted Hotel (J. Stuart Blackton, 1907)
The Haunted House/The House of Ghosts
The Golden Spider
--- Enter D.W. Griffith ---
Rescued From an Eagle’s Nest
Adventures of Dollie
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