Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
1900
|
A Nymph of the Waves |
Frederick S. Armitage |
Cathrina Barto |
United States |
Early use of optical printing[1]
|
1901
|
The Ghost Train |
Frederick S. Armitage |
|
United States |
Use of overprinting; section shown in negative[2][3]
|
Star Theatre |
Frederick S. Armitage |
|
United States |
a.k.a. "Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre." Single-frame, time-lapse subject[4][5]
|
1903
|
The Infernal Cake Walk |
Georges Méliès |
|
France |
Ghostly, in-camera superimpositions[6][7]
|
Down the Hudson |
Frederick S. Armitage, A.E. Weed |
|
United States |
Single-frame, time-lapse travel actually "up" the Hudson River[8][9]
|
1905
|
Interior NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street |
Billy Bitzer |
|
United States |
Shot from front of subway car, largely abstract[10]
|
1906
|
The '?' Motorist
|
Walter R. Booth
|
|
United Kingdom
|
Exceptional trick film in the style of Georges Méliés. Produced by R. W. Paul.[11]
|
1907
|
Les Kiriki - Acrobates Japonaises |
Segundo de Chomón |
|
France |
Exceptional trick film, shot from the ceiling facing downward[12]
|
1908
|
Fantasmagorie |
Émile Cohl |
|
France |
Early animation, reflective of the pre-modernist movement of the Incoherents[citation needed]
|
1910
|
The Hasher's Delerium |
Émile Cohl |
|
France |
Early animation; representation of a hallucination[13]
|
1911
|
The Automatic Moving Company |
Romeo Bosetti and/or Émile Cohl |
|
France |
Often attributed to Émile Cohl; recent scholarship points toward Bosetti.[14]
|
A Chord of Color |
Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna |
|
Italy |
Abstract animation, Lost film[15]
|
Study on the Effects of Four Colors |
Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna |
|
Italy |
Abstract animation, Lost film[15]
|
Translation of Mallarmé's poem "Flowers" into Colors |
Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna |
|
Italy |
Abstract animation, Lost film[15]
|
Translation of Mendelssohn's Spring Song |
Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna |
|
Italy |
Abstract animation, Lost film[15]
|
1912
|
The Dance |
Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna |
|
Italy |
Abstract animation, Lost film[15][16]
|
The Rainbow |
Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna |
|
Italy |
Abstract animation, Lost film[15][17]
|
1913
|
Rythmes colorés (Coloured Rhythm) |
Léopold Survage |
|
France |
Abstract animation; ca. 105 drawings made but not filmed[18][19][20]
|
Suspense
|
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
|
Valentine Paul, Lois Weber
|
United States
|
Contains early examples of split-screen and a car chase.
|
1914
|
Drama in the Futurist's Cabinet No. 13 |
Vladimir Kasyanov |
Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, David Burliuk |
Russia |
Lost film[21][22]
|
1915
|
La Folie du Docteur Tube |
Abel Gance |
Albert Dieudonné |
France |
Archaic trick film, shot through Anamorphic lens[23]
|
The Hypocrites |
Lois Weber |
Courtenay Foote, Myrtle Stedman |
United States |
Allegorical and highly symbolic religious picture; nude principal character[citation needed]
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mikhail Doronin |
Vavara Yanova, Vsevolod Meyerhold |
Russia |
Adaptation of Oscar Wilde story by symbolist theater director; Lost film[24]
|
1916
|
Diana the Huntress |
Charles W. Allen, Francis Trevelyan Miller |
Lionel Braham, Percy Richards |
United States |
Highly stylized mythic film; fragment only[25]
|
Intolerance |
D.W. Griffith |
Lillian Gish, Robert Harron |
United States |
Influential film which attempts to tell four stories at once; extensive use of montage[citation needed]
|
The Strong Man |
Vsevolod Meyerhold |
Mikhail Doronin, Vsevolod Meyerhold |
Russia |
Adaptation of Stanisław Przybyszewski play by symbolist theater director; Lost film[24]
|
1917
|
Thaïs |
Anton Giulio Bragaglia |
Thaïs Galizsky |
Italy |
Italian Futurist film; incomplete print extant.[26]
|
Vita futurista |
Arnaldo Ginna |
Filippo Marinetti, Giacomo Balla |
Italy |
Italian futurist film; Lost film[27]
|
1918
|
Âmes des fous |
Germaine Dulac |
Sylvio de Pedrelli, Ève Francis |
France |
Serial which incorporated avant-garde techniques; lost film.[28][29]
|
The Blue Bird |
Maurice Tourneur |
Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall |
United States |
Stylized, almost surrealistic, fantasy film[citation needed]
|
Nye dlya deneg radivshisya (Born Not for the Money) |
Nikandr Turkin |
Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk |
Soviet Union |
Russian futurist adaptation of Jack London story[citation needed] Lost film[30]
|
Il Perfido Incanto |
Anton Giulio Bragaglia |
Renée Avril, Thaïs Galizsky |
Italy |
Lost Italian Futurist film.[23]
|
Prunella |
Maurice Tourneur |
Isabel Berwin, Jules Raucourt |
United States |
Stylized, almost surrealistic, fantasy film; only a 30-minute fragment extant[31][32]
|
The Young Lady and the Hooligan
|
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Yevgeni Slavinsky
|
Fyodor Dunayev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksandra Rebikova
|
Soviet Union |
The only surviving film appearance by arch-Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky[30]
|
1919
|
The Fall of Babylon |
D.W. Griffith |
Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget |
United States |
Edited from Intolerance, widely influential in Europe; introduced 'Russian montage' to Russia[citation needed]
|
Rose-France |
Marcel L'Herbier |
Claude-France Aïssé, Jacque Catelain |
France |
Symbolic romance[citation needed]
|
1920
|
Anywhere Out of the World |
Dudley Murphy |
Chase Harringdine |
United States |
Dance film, Lost film[33]
|
Aphrodite |
Dudley Murphy |
Katharine Hawley |
United States |
Dance film, Lost film[34][35]
|
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
Robert Wiene |
Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover |
Weimar Republic |
Expressionist horror film, greatly influential on avant-garde filmmakers, particularly in the United States[citation needed]
|
La Fête espagnole |
Germaine Dulac |
Ève Francis, Gaston Modot |
France |
First film written by Louis Delluc[36][23]
|
From Morn to Midnight
|
Karlheinz Martin
|
Ernst Deutsch
|
Weimar Republic
|
Adaptation of Expressionist play, only film made by theatre director Martin; barred from German cinemas at the time[37]
|
Genuine |
Robert Wiene |
Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski |
Weimar Republic |
Particularly extreme example of Expressionism[citation needed]
|
Nude Woman by Waterfall |
Claude Friese-Greene |
|
United Kingdom |
Dance film.[38]
|
Le silence |
Louis Delluc |
Ève Francis, Gabriel Signoret |
France |
Naturalist, experimental short[citation needed]
[23][39]
|
The Soul of the Cypress |
Dudley Murphy |
Chase Harringdine |
United States |
Dance film[40]
|
1921
|
El Dorado |
Marcel L'Herbier |
Ève Francis, Jacque Catelain |
France |
Melodrama, highly stylized sets and use of montage[citation needed]
|
Fièvre |
Louis Delluc |
Ève Francis, Gaston Modot |
France |
Naturalist melodrama[23]
|
Manhatta |
Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler |
|
United States |
First City film[41]
|
Opus 1 |
Walter Ruttmann |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract Animation[citation needed]
|
Opus 2 |
Walter Ruttmann |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract Animation[citation needed]
|
Rhythmus 21 |
Hans Richter |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation. Backdated by Richter, not actually completed or screened in 1921.[42]
|
1922
|
Danse macabre |
Dudley Murphy |
Adolph Bolm, Ruth Page |
United States |
Dance film[3]
|
The Enchanted City |
Warren Newcombe |
|
United States |
Art heavy futurist short[43]
|
La femme de nulle part |
Louis Delluc |
Ève Francis, Gine Avril |
France |
Naturalist melodrama[23]
|
Der Sieger |
Walter Ruttmann |
|
Weimar Republic |
Semi-abstract advertising film[citation needed]
|
1923
|
Cœur fidèle |
Jean Epstein |
Léon Mathot, Gina Manès |
France |
Naturalist melodrama, experimental sequence; cited in Curtis[23]
|
Dnevnik Glumova (Glumov's Diary) |
Sergei Eisenstein |
Grigori Alexandrov, Sergei Eisenstein |
Soviet Union |
Filmed inserts for The Wise Man, a production of the Moscow Proletkult Central Theater; issued as part of Kino Pravda No. 16[44][45]
|
L'ironie du Destin |
Dimitri Kirsanoff |
Dimitri Kirsanoff, Nadia Sibirskaïa |
France |
Naturalist melodrama; Lost film[23]
|
The Man Without Desire |
Adrian Brunel |
Ivor Novello |
United Kingdom |
Fantasy, cited by Rotha[46]
|
La mort du soleil |
Germaine Dulac |
André Nox, Denis Lorys |
France |
Social drama, experimental techniques[47]
|
Le Retour à la Raison |
Man Ray |
Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse) |
France |
Insert film for a Dadist soirée[48]
|
La Roue |
Abel Gance |
Séverin-Mars, Ivy Close |
France |
Lengthy melodrama utilizing extensive segments of "Russian montage"[23]
|
La Souriante Madame Beudet |
Germaine Dulac |
Germaine Dermoz, Alexandre Arquillière |
France |
Social drama, experimental techniques. Considered one of the first feminist films.[49] Premiered 9 November 1923.[50]
|
The Crazy Ray |
René Clair |
Henri Rollan, Charles Martinelli |
France |
Surrealist comedy with science-fiction angle[51]
|
Rhythmus 23 |
Hans Richter |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation. Several scholars have shown that Richter likely backdated his film; this was probably made at least several years later.[52]
|
Salomé |
Charles R. Bryant |
Alla Nazimova, Mitchell Lewis |
United States |
Art Nouveau rendering of biblical story based on Aubrey Beardsley[53]
|
Sea of Dreams |
Warren Newcombe |
Hazel Lindsley |
United States |
Futuristic fantasy; Lost film[54]
|
1924
|
The Adventures of Oktyabrina |
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg |
Zinaida Torkhovskaya, Yevgeni Kumeiko |
Soviet Union |
First production of FEKS; lost film[55]
|
Aelita: Queen of Mars
|
Iakov Protazanov
|
Igor Ilyinsky, Mikhail Zharov
|
Soviet Union |
Science-fiction film with Constructivist and Futurist sets.[56]
|
Ballet Mécanique |
Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy |
Alice Prin |
France |
Cubist film, with music score by George Antheil[57][19]
|
Entr'acte |
René Clair |
Alice Prin, Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp |
France |
Dadaist insert film for Erik Satie's ballet Relâche[58]
|
The Fugitive Futurist |
Gaston Quiribet |
|
United Kingdom |
Comedy featuring "melting" wipe effect; futuristic projections on travel[59]
|
L'Inhumaine |
Marcel L'Herbier |
Georgette Leblanc, Jacque Catelain |
France |
Highly stylized science fiction feature[60]
|
Interplanetary Revolution
|
Nikolai Khodotaev, Zenon Komisarenko, Yuri Merkolov
|
|
Soviet Union
|
Satire of Protazanov's Aelita: Queen of Mars
|
Kino-Eye
|
Dziga Vertov
|
|
Soviet Union
|
|
Opus III |
Walter Ruttmann |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation[citation needed]
|
Au secours! |
Abel Gance |
Max Linder, Jean Toulout |
France |
Horror-comedy, highly experimental in style[61]
|
Symphonie Diagonale |
Viking Eggeling |
|
Sweden |
Abstract animation; in production from 1921.
|
Soviet Toys |
Dziga Vertov |
|
Soviet Union |
Satirical animation and advertising[62]
|
1925
|
Les aventures de Robert Macaire |
Jean Epstein |
Jean Angelo, Alex Allin |
France |
Fantasy serial, cited in Rotha[citation needed]
|
Battleship Potemkin |
Sergei Eisenstein |
Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Alexandrov |
Soviet Union |
"Odessa Steps" sequence is a textbook example of Russian montage[citation needed]
|
La fille de l'eau |
Jean Renoir |
Catherine Hessling, Pierre Champagne |
France |
Naturalist drama, surrealist influenced[63]
|
Jean Cocteau fait du cinéma |
Jean Cocteau |
Jean Cocteau |
France |
16mm short, Lost film[64]
|
KIPHO |
Julius Pinschewer, Guido Seeber |
|
Weimar Republic |
Trailer for International Film Congress of Berlin, 1925[65]
|
Lebende Buddhas |
Paul Wegener |
Paul Wegener, Asta Nielsen |
Weimar Republic |
Fragment only; fragment is more experimental than Expressionist[citation needed]
|
Opus IV |
Walter Ruttmann |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation[citation needed]
|
The Pottery Maker |
Robert J. Flaherty |
|
United States |
Semi-documentary, experimental in style[66]
|
A Quoi revent les jeunes films? |
Henri Chomette, Man Ray |
|
France |
Lost film. Made as a collaboration between Chomette and Ray; later sub-divided into three different films.[67]
|
Rebus Film Nr. 1 |
Paul Leni |
|
Weimar Republic |
Semi-abstract filmed puzzle, part of a series of eight films[68]
|
Rhythmus 25 |
Hans Richter |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation; Lost film[69]
|
Strike
|
Sergei Eisenstein
|
|
Soviet Union
|
|
Stromlinien |
Oskar Fischinger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation[70]
|
The Way |
Francis Brugière |
Sebastian Droste, Rosalinde Fuller |
United States |
Unrealized project, dated by Rotha to 1923 and often dated to 1929; 1925 is correct[71]
|
1926
|
Anémic cinéma |
Marcel Duchamp |
|
France |
Dadaist semi-animated film[72]
|
Cinq minutes de cinéma pur |
Henri Chomette |
|
France |
Extract from A Quoi revent les jeunes films?[67]
|
Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse |
Henri Chomette |
|
France |
Extract from A Quoi revent les jeunes films?[citation needed]
|
Ménilmontant |
Dimitri Kirsanoff |
|
France |
Urban realist melodrama[73]
|
Filmstudie |
Hans Richter |
|
Weimar Republic |
Merger between abstract animation and photographic abstraction[74]
|
Moonland |
Neil McGuire, William A. O'Connor |
Mickey McBan |
United States |
Fantasy short, surrealist sets & situations[75]
|
Mother |
Vsevolod Pudovkin |
Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov |
Soviet Union |
Gripping social realist drama, heavy use of montage[citation needed]
|
A Page of Madness |
Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa |
Japan |
Surreal, intense representation of insanity using highly advanced film techniques.[76]
|
Raumlichtkunst series |
Oskar Fischinger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation; multiple projector performances. Reconstructed 2012 by CVM in HD as a three projector installation.[77]
|
Rien que les heures |
Alberto Cavalcanti |
Blanche Bernis, Nina Chousvalowa |
France |
City film[citation needed]
|
Secrets of a Soul
|
G. W. Pabst
|
Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher
|
Weimar Republic
|
Co-written with psychoanalysts Karl Abraham and Hanns Sachs, with dream sequence and sets by Ernő Metzner.
|
A Sixth Part of the World
|
Dziga Vertov
|
|
Soviet Union
|
|
Spirals |
Oskar Fischinger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract Animation; incorporates footage made several years earlier[78]
|
Le voyage imaginaire |
René Clair |
Dolly Davis, Jean Bõrlin |
France |
Fantasy film with surrealist elements[79]
|
Wax Experiments |
Oskar Fischinger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract Animation; incorporates footage going back to c. 1921[78]
|
1927
|
Bed and Sofa
|
Abram Room
|
Nikolai Batalov, Vladimir Fogel, Lyudmila Semyonova
|
Soviet Union
|
Written by Viktor Shklovsky
|
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
Walter Ruttmann |
|
Weimar Republic |
City film
|
City Film |
Ralph Steiner |
|
United States |
Amateur City film[80]
|
Combat de Boxe
|
Charles Dekeukeleire
|
|
Belgium
|
Staging of boxing match, based on poem by Paul Werrie
|
Emak-Bakia |
Man Ray |
Alice Prin |
France |
Extract from A Quoi revent les jeunes films?[citation needed]
|
The End of St. Petersburg |
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller |
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya |
Soviet Union |
Historic epic[citation needed]
|
La Glace à trois faces (The Three-Sided Mirror) |
Jean Epstein |
Raymond Guérin-Catelain, Jeanne Helbling |
France |
Avant-garde projection of a narrative romance.[81]
|
Les Halles centrales |
Boris Kaufman |
|
France |
City film[82]
|
L'invitation au voyage |
Germaine Dulac |
Emma Gynt, Raymond Dubreuil |
France |
Impressionistic "Cinéma pur"[83]
|
Die Landpartie |
Alex Strasser |
|
Weimar Republic |
Animated "grotesque"[84]
|
Loony Lens |
Al Brick |
|
United States |
Anamorphic views; insert series to Fox Movietone newsreels, begun 1924, only 4 known,[75][85]
|
La marche des machines |
Eugène Deslaw |
|
France |
Semi-abstract art film of machinery; filmed by Boris Kaufman[86]
|
München-Berlin Wanderung |
Oskar Fischinger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Photographic single-frame film. Not released until decades later.[87]
|
Napoléon |
Abel Gance |
Albert Dieudonné, Antonin Artaud |
France |
Enormous historic epic, experimental techniques and multi-screen[citation needed]
|
Magic Umbrella |
Jerome Hill |
|
United States |
Genre parody, filmed in Rome; color and sound added in 1965[88]
|
Orgelstabe |
Oskar Fischinger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation; series of experiments made over several years.[78]
|
La p'tite Lili |
Alberto Cavalcanti |
Catherine Hessling, Jean Renoir |
France |
Naturalist short, street film[citation needed]
|
Prelude |
Castleton Knight |
|
United Kingdom |
Experimental projection of Edgar Allan Poe's The Premature Burial, conventionally framed.[89]
|
En rade |
Alberto Cavalcanti |
Pierre Batcheff, Blanche Bernis |
France |
Urban realist melodrama[73]
|
Seelische Konstruktionen |
Oskar Fischinger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation.[87]
|
Sur un air de Charleston |
Jean Renoir |
Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins |
France |
Silly, surrealist dance short with sci-fi elements[citation needed]
|
Le train sans yeux |
Alberto Cavalcanti |
Hans Mierendorff, Gina Manès |
France |
Written by Louis Delluc[citation needed]
|
Vieux châteaux |
Eugène Deslaw |
Zet Molan |
France |
Artful semi-documentary[86]
|
Wing Beat
|
Kenneth MacPherson
|
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Your Acquaintance
|
Lev Kuleshov
|
Pyotr Galadzhev, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Yuri Vasilchikov
|
Soviet Union
|
Art direction by Aleksandr Rodchenko. Only a fragment survives.
|
1928
|
L'Argent |
Marcel L'Herbier |
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel |
France |
Experimental, modernized treatment of Zola novel[citation needed]
|
Blue Bottles |
Ivor Montagu |
Elsa Lanchester, Joe Beckett |
United Kingdom |
Hybrid of experimental style and slapstick comedy[90]
|
De Brug (The Bridge) |
Joris Ivens |
|
Netherlands |
|
Celles qui s'en font |
Germaine Dulac |
|
France |
Visualization of music[citation needed]
|
The Fall of the House of Usher |
Jean Epstein |
Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance |
France |
Horror, highly stylized[citation needed]
|
Disque 957 |
Germaine Dulac |
|
France |
Visualization of music[91]
|
The Eleventh Year
|
Dziga Vertov
|
|
Soviet Union
|
|
L'Étoile de mer |
Man Ray |
Alice Prin |
France |
Surrealist film financed by Charles De Noailles; written by Robert Desnos
|
Ghosts Before Breakfast |
Hans Richter |
|
Weimar Republic |
Dadaist fantasy[citation needed]
|
Grotesken im Schnee |
Alex Strasser, Lotte Reiniger |
|
Weimar Republic |
Animated "grotesque" with sillouhettes[84]
|
Hände |
Stella Simon, Miklós Bandy |
|
Weimar Republic |
Stylized love story utilizing only hands; made in silent and sound versions[92]
|
Inflation |
Hans Richter |
|
Weimar Republic |
Montage made for the feature Der Dame mit der Maske (1928).[93] Visual abstraction on the subject of runaway inflation in Weimar-era Germany.
|
Impatience |
Charles Dekeukeleire |
Yvonne Selma |
Belgium |
Photographic abstract film[citation needed]
|
In the Shadow of the Machine
|
Albrecht Viktor Blum, Leo Lania
|
|
Weimar Republic
|
Montage made of footage shot by Dziga Vertov for A Sixth Part of the World
|
Johann the Coffin Maker |
Robert Florey |
|
United States |
Horror short, Lost film[citation needed]
|
Jûjiro |
Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando |
Japan |
Expressionistic treatment of Samurai story[94]
|
The Last Moment |
Paul Fejos |
Otto Matieson, Lucille La Verne |
United States |
Independently-made, experimental feature; Lost film[citation needed]
|
The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra |
Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich |
Jules Raucourt, George Voya |
United States |
Ultra low budget anti-Hollywood film[95][96]
|
The Love of Zero |
Robert Florey |
Anielka Elter, Captain Marco Elter |
United States |
[92]
|
Les nuits électriques |
Eugène Deslaw |
|
France |
Semi-abstract art film of neon signs[97]
|
October, a.k.a. Ten Days That Shook the World |
Sergei Eisenstein |
Nikolay Popov, Vasily Nikandrov |
Soviet Union |
Contains Eisenstein's most radical uses of montage[citation needed]
|
Le petite marchande d'alumettes |
Jean Renoir, Jean Tedesco |
Catherine Hessling, Eric Barclay |
France |
Fantasy short with surrealist elements[98]
|
Praha v záři světel (Prague Shining in Lights) |
Svatopluk Innemann |
|
Czechoslovakia |
City film[99]
|
Rennsymphonie |
Hans Richter |
|
Weimar Republic |
|
The Seashell and the Clergyman |
Germaine Dulac |
Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou |
France |
Surrealist dream film written by Antonin Artaud. Often dated to 1927, but premiered in Paris, 9 February 1928.[100]
|
The Tell-Tale Heart |
Charles Klein |
Charles Darvas, Hans Fuerberg |
United States |
Horror short[101]
|
Thèmes et Variations |
Germaine Dulac |
|
France |
Visualization of music[102]
|
There It Is |
Charles Bowers |
Charles Bowers, Kathryn McGuire |
United States |
Two reel comedy, absurd in the extreme[citation needed]
|
Twenty-Four Dollar Island |
Robert J. Flaherty |
|
United States |
City film, variously dated to 1926, 1927. Premiered in NYC, 1 January 1928[103]
|
Überfall |
Ernő Metzner |
|
Weimar Republic |
|
The Fall of the House of Usher |
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber |
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United States |
Short film
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Koko's Earth Control |
Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer |
Koko the Clown |
United States |
Animated cartoon with exceptional visual dynamism; flash frames[citation needed]
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Zvenigora |
Oleksandr Dovzhenko |
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny |
Soviet Union |
Film poem with fantasy elements[104]
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1929
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Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich (Everything Turns, Everything Revolves) |
Hans Richter |
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Weimar Republic |
Sound; music by Walter Gronostay. Only roughly half of this 15-minute experimental short still survives.[105][106]
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Arsenal
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Oleksandr Dovzhenko
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Amvrosy Buchma, Georgiy Kharkiv, Semyon Svashenko
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Soviet Union
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The Bridge |
Charles Vidor |
Nicholas Bela, Charles Darvas |
United States |
Experimental narrative film based on Ambrose Bierce story, also known as The Spy; sometimes dated 1930-31[citation needed]
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Brumes d'automne |
Dimitri Kirsanoff |
Nadia Sibirskaïa |
France |
Film poem, with synchronized music track[73][107]
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Dr Turner's Mental Home
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Dora Carrington, Beakus Penrose
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United Kingdom
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Short, experimental melodrama. Not publicly screened.
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Drifters |
John Grierson |
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United Kingdom |
Documentary with a distinctly modernist orientation[108]
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Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque |
Germaine Dulac |
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France |
Visualization of music[109]
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Every Day |
Hans Richter |
Sergei Eisenstein, Basil Wright |
United Kingdom |
Artful semi-documentary about everyday life[110]
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H2O |
Ralph Steiner |
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United States |
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Histoire de détective |
Charles Dekeukeleire |
Pierre Bourgeois |
Belgium |
Semi-abstract film; despite the title, not a detective story[citation needed]
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Images d'Ostende
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Henri Storck
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Belgium
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Impressionen vom alten Marseiller Hafen (Vieux Port) |
László Moholy-Nagy |
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Weimar Republic |
City film[citation needed]
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Lullaby |
Boris Deutsch |
Riva Deutsch, Michael Visaroff |
United States |
Expressionist drama, likely incomplete; Horak dates it to 1925[54]
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Man with a Movie Camera |
Dziga Vertov |
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Soviet Union |
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Monkey's Moon
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Kenneth MacPherson
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Montparnasse |
Eugène Deslaw |
Luis Buñuel, Filippo Marinetti |
France |
City film, with synchronized sound[111]
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My Grandmother |
Kote Mikaberidze |
Aleksandr Takaishvili, Bella Chernova |
Georgia |
Eccentric combination of avant-garde and social comedy[citation needed]
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Les Mystères du Château de Dé |
Man Ray |
Man Ray, Georges Auric |
France |
Surrealist short funded by Charles De Noailles[citation needed]
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The New Babylon |
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg |
David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina |
Soviet Union |
Production of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor[112]
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La Perle |
Henri D'Ursel |
Georges Hugnet, Kissa Kouprine, Renee Savoye, Mary Stutz |
Belgium |
Experimental narrative film.[113]
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Pour vos beaux yeux
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Henri Storck
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Belgium
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Rain |
Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken |
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Netherlands |
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Skyscraper Symphony |
Robert Florey |
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United States |
City film[114]
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The Storming of La Sarraz |
Hans Richter, Sergei Eisenstein, Ivor Montagu |
Béla Balász, Léon Moussinac |
Weimar Republic |
Made during a film conference; Lost film[citation needed]
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Studie Nr. 1 |
Oskar Fischinger |
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Weimar Republic |
Abstract animation.[78]
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Tusalava |
Len Lye |
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New Zealand |
Abstract animation[115]
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Un Chien Andalou |
Luis Buñuel |
Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil |
France |
Short surrealist film written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí[citation needed]
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War Under the Sea |
M.G. MacPherson, Jean Michelson |
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United States |
Artkino[116] production; Lost film[80]
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