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Decade: 1900sAzzera i filtri
Original illustration: An engraved Victorian counting house with an empty spectral overcoat, chain and fireplace beneath the title.
Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost
1901 · Walter R. BoothFantasy drama
Sinossi in inglese

Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by Marley’s ghost and visions that compress Dickens’s Christmas story into a few inventive minutes.

InsolitoDelicatoPoco impegnativo
A Trip to the Moon — Momo watches a rocket approach the moon in a layered paper astronomy theatre.
A Trip to the Moon
1902 · Georges Méliès11 min · Sci-Fi
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A rocket in the Moon’s eye: a voyage built from stage illusion.

InsolitoBelloPoco impegnativo
Robed figures move across shallow theatrical stages in muted hand-applied colors above the title Life and Passion of the Christ.
Life and Passion of the Christ
1903 · Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet44 min · Religious drama
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The life of Christ unfolds through an extended series of theatrical scenes, from the Nativity to the Passion and Resurrection.

BelloDelicatoMediamente impegnativo
A firefighter braces a large hose against a diagonal field of flames and smoke.
Life of an American Fireman
1903 · Edwin S. PorterRescue drama
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A fire brigade answers an alarm and attempts to rescue a woman and child from a burning room.

TesoInsolitoMediamente impegnativo
Original illustration for The Great Train Robbery: A sweeping dark steam locomotive crosses a deep layered canyon along a curving trestle, dusk terracotta and turquoise.
The Great Train Robbery
1903 · Edwin S. Porter12 min · Western
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A compact chase film that turns railway tracks, cross-cut action, and direct address into early cinema momentum.

TesoPoco impegnativo
A breached stone wall frames soldiers and Rome's skyline beneath the title.
La presa di Roma
1905 · Filoteo Alberini6 min · Historical drama
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The capture of Rome is condensed into staged military action and a patriotic reconstruction of 20 September 1870.

TesoBelloMediamente impegnativo
A carved chariot wheel leans into a sweeping race-track curve beneath the title.
Ben Hur
1907 · Sidney Olcott, Frank Oakes Rose12 min · Historical drama
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Ben-Hur’s conflict with Roman power is compressed around spectacle, most famously an early screen chariot race.

TesoBelloMediamente impegnativo
Original illustration: A golden paper spinning wheel, curling thread and open storybook in a layered blue forest, with Momo beside the wheel.
La légende de la fileuse
1908 · Louis Feuillade8 min · Fantasy drama
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A spinner’s legend is presented as a compact piece of visual folklore in an early film by Louis Feuillade.

DelicatoInsolitoMediamente impegnativo
Two hands in Renaissance sleeves almost meet across plum-coloured space above the title Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet
1908 · J. Stuart BlacktonRomantic tragedy
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Shakespeare’s lovers are condensed into a brief series of recognisable meetings, separations, and fatal misunderstandings.

RomanticoCupoMediamente impegnativo
Four stage flats and two empty chairs face each other across a loose red strip.
The Taming of the Shrew
1908 · D. W. Griffith17 min · Comedy
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Shakespeare’s courtship battle is reduced to a brisk contest of gesture, resistance, and coercive domestic order.

DivertenteTesoMediamente impegnativo
Original illustration for A Corner in Wheat: A towering golden wheat stalk vertically divides a flat engraved bread loaf at lower left and miniature grain exchange windows at upper right.
A Corner in Wheat
1909 · D. W. Griffith14 min · Drama
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A fourteen-minute social drama that cuts between the price of bread, labour in the fields, and speculation at the top.

CupoMediamente impegnativo
Original illustration: A moonlit flowering woodland with distant anonymous figures, fairy lights and a theatrical donkey-head prop beneath the title.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1909 · Charles Kent, J. Stuart Blackton12 min · Fantasy comedy
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Lovers, fairies, and amateur actors cross paths in a forest where enchantment makes affection change direction without warning.

DivertenteInsolitoMediamente impegnativo
Two small hands support a large empty battered tin bowl against dark cloth.
Oliver Twist
1909 · J. Stuart BlacktonLiterary drama
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Oliver’s passage through poverty, exploitation, and criminal pressure is compressed into an early silent adaptation of Dickens’s novel.

CupoDelicatoMediamente impegnativo
A hand releasing a pale glove hangs above another person's open waiting palm.
Resurrection
1909 · D. W. GriffithDrama
Sinossi in inglese

A privileged man is confronted with the consequences of abandoning a woman when her later suffering becomes impossible for him to ignore.

CupoRomanticoRichiede pazienza
A stone tower doorway closes around its last line of light beside an hourglass.
The Sealed Room
1909 · D. W. Griffith11 min · Historical melodrama
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A ruler discovers a secret affair and turns a hidden room into an instrument of punishment.

TesoCupoPoco impegnativo

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