Category:1901, Top Films

1897 -- 1898 -- 1899 -- 1900

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1902 -- 1903 -- 1904 -- 1905

Notable 1901 films

• {en} [The] Artist’s Dilemma (USA 1901 Porter) <YouTube> -- The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the artist, requests him to paint her picture.

• {en} [The] Big Swallow (GBR 1901 Williamson) <YouTube> -- A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.

• {fr} Bluebeard (FRA 1901 Melies) <YouTube> -- A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

• {en} Boys Diving, Honolulu (USA 1901 Bonine) <YouTube> -- An unusually well laid out picture of native youngsters of Hawaii diving for coins.

• {en} Fire! (GBR 1901 Williamson) <YouTube> -- Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it.

• {fr} [The] Man with the Rubber Head / L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (FRA 1901 Melies) <YouTube> -- A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

• {en} Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front (GBR 1901 Mitchell & Kenyon) <You Tube> -- An amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

• {en} Scrooge; or, Marley's Ghost (GBR 1901 Booth) <YouTube> -- It's Christmas Eve. The miser Scrooge and his assistant Bob Cratchit finish their work in the office and go home.

Critical Reception

History of Cinema, Best Films

-- The Countryman and the Cinematograph (Paul) -- * Scrooge; or, Marley's Ghost (Booth) -- Histoire d'un crime (Zecca) -- * The Man with the Rubber Head [L'Homme a le tete en caoutchouc] (Melies) -- What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City (Fleming, Porter) -- Stop Thief (Williamson) -- The Big Swallow (Williamson) -- Fire! (Williamson) -- * Barb-Bleue (Melies)

Letterboxd, Best Films (3)

-- #1. The Big Swallow (Williamson)

-- #2. The Man with the Rubber Head [L'Homme a le tete en caoutchouc] (Melies)

-- #3. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre -- Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.

Paste Magazine, Best Films

• #21. Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front

Silent Era, Best Films (3)

-- #300+. The Man with the Rubber Head -- The Artist’s Dilemma -- Bluebeard

External links

• 1901 in film -- Wikipedia