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1896 -- 1897 -- 1898 -- 1899

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1901 -- 1902 -- 1903 -- 1904

Notable 1900 films

• {en} Faust and Marguerite (USA 1900 Porter) <YouTube> -- Marguerite is seated before the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite.

• {fr} Hamlet / Le duel d'Hamlet (FRA 1900 Maurice) <YouTube> -- The final duel in 'Hamlet', in the first film of the play, starring Sarah Bernhardt.

• {fr} Joan of Arc / Jeanne d'Arc (FRA 1900 Méliès) <YouTube> -- A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

• {fr} [The] One-Man Band / L'Homme-Orchestre (FRA 1900 Méliès) <YouTube> -- A band-leader assembles an orchestra by mystifying means.

• {en} Soldiers of the Cross (AUS 1900 Perry) <lost> -- The story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors guaranteed to jolt audiences into an awareness of terrible suffering for the sake of Christianity.

Critical Reception

= History of Cinema, Best Films

-- Grandma's Reading Glass (Smith) -- Avenue de l'Opera (Guy-Blache) -- As Seen Through a Telescope (Smith) -- A Nymph of the Waves (Armitage) -- * Joan of Arc [Jeanne d'Arc] (Melies) -- The Enchanted Drawing (Blackton) -- Attack on a China Mission (Williamson) -- Explosion of a Motor Car (Hepworth)

External links

• 1900 in film -- Wikipedia