I started the chronological movie watching a week early. We watched the following films:
1893 - Blacksmith Scene
1894 - Annabelle Butterfly Dance
1895 - The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
1896 - The House of the Devil [La Manoir Du Diable]
1897 - The Haunted Castle [La Chateau Hante]
1898 - The Burglar on the Roof
1898 - Four Heads are Better Than One
1898 - The Temptation of St. Anthony
1898 - The Astronomer's Dream [La Lune a Un Metre]
All of them were approximately a minute or less excepting The House of the Devil and The Astronomer's Dream, which were about three minutes each. The kids seemed most entertained by The Astronomer's Dream, which was indeed kind of crazy, and featured a maniacal-looking moon which ate people and furniture. Of the Edison films, three had no special effects at all, while the The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots had a single substitution splice. The Méliès films of course are filled with substitution splices. Four Heads are Better Than One however also used some sort of double exposure trick to show a man repeatedly removing his head. Also interesting was The Haunted Castle, in which one of the character's cape was hand painted red throughout.
Next week we'll be watching four films from 1899 and four from 1900: https://bit.ly/2lZtfmT
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