Films by Date: 1900's

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1900-1920 Edison Laboratory Collection, footage of Edison's later years rescued from the inventor's laboratory in East Orange, N.J. (Library of Congress).

1904 Suburbanite, The, the comic trials of a commuter who moves to the suburbs (Museum of Modern Art).

1905-1914 Biograph Studio Collection, 27 films from the company's core production period (Museum of Modern Art):

Almost a Wild Man (1913; Director: Dell Henderson)
The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913; Director: W. Christy Cabanne)
The Genius (1914; Director: Dell Henderson)
The House of Discord (1913; Director: James Kirkwood)
In Life's Cycle (1910; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Left-Handed Man (1913; Director: Unknown)
A Limited Divorce (1912; Director: Dell Henderson)
Man's Enemy (1914; Director: Unknown)
My Baby (1912; Director: D.W. Griffith)
Oh, Uncle (1909; Director: D.W. Griffith)
One Is Business; the Other Crime (1912; Director: D.W. Griffith)
One Night, and Then (1910; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Perfidy of Mary (1913; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Redman's View (1909; Director: D.W. Griffith)
A Siren of Impulse (1912; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Sorrowful Shore (1913; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Squaw's Love (1911; Director: D.W. Griffith)
Strongheart (1914; Director: James Kirkwood)
Sweet and Twenty (1909; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Test (1909; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Thief and the Girl (1911; Director: D.W. Griffith)
Those Little Flowers (1913; Director: Dell Henderson)
To Save Her Soul (1909; Director: D.W. Griffith)
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1905; Director: Unknown)
The Two Paths (1911; Director: D.W. Griffith)
Was He a Coward? (1911; Director: D.W. Griffith)
The Wife (1914; Director: David Miles) (Museum of Modern Art).

1905-1914 Vitagraph Short Films, 13 one- and two-reel films from the pioneering Vitagraph Company (UCLA Film and Television Archive):

The Adventures of a Gentleman of France (1905)
The Ageless Sex (1914)
The Butler's Secret (1913)
Buttercups (1913)
The Greatest Thing in the World—Love (1912)
Hako's Sacrifice (1910)
License No. 13, or The Hoodoo Automobile (1905)
Monsieur Beaucaire
Noah's Ark (undated)
Old Glory (1910)
Private Bunny (1914) with comedian John Bunny
The Servant Girl Problem (1905)
The Starving Artist, or Realism in Art (1907)
Two Christmastides (1909) (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1906 Automobile Thieves, The, J. Stuart Blackton short (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1909 Country Doctor, The, D.W. Griffith's one-reel tragedy about a dedicated doctor and his daughter (Museum of Modern Art).

1909 Life of Moses, The, Vitagraph film originally released in five parts but later shown in a single screening, thus making it the first surviving American feature (Museum of Modern Art).

1909 Voice of the Violin, The, among the earliest D.W. Griffith one-reelers to survive with intertitles (George Eastman House).