Last week, The A.V. Club took a look at the best films of the 1990s (a look that proved unexpectedly controversial). As a lark, we started talking about a companion list covering the best films of the 1890s. But the more we talked about it, the more it seemed like a good idea to turn back the clock to the very beginnings of film. We selected 10 films we found artistically compelling and historically significant. And because they’re all in the public domain, available on YouTube, and short, you can easily watch them in their entirety as you read along.
1. “Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory In Lyon” (1895)Moving pictures of various sorts predate the efforts of Auguste and Louis Lumìere, but what we call movies—motion pictures that could be projected before an audience—effectively begins with their Cinématographe Lumière. The Lum ...
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