1910
Cheng Huan is a missionary whose goal is to bring the teachings of peace by Buddha to the civilized Anglo-Saxons. Upon landing in England, he is quickly disillusioned by the intolerance and apathy of the country. He becomes a storekeeper of a small shop. Out his window, he sees the young Lucy Burrows. She is regularly beaten by her prizefighter father, underfed and wears ragged clothes. Even in this deplorable condition, Cheng can see that she is a priceless beauty and he falls in love with her from afar. On the day that she passes out in front of his store, he takes her in and cares for her. With nothing but love in his heart, he dresses her in silks and provides food for her. Still weak, she stays in his shop that night and all that Cheng does is watch over her. The peace and happiness that he sees last only until Battling Burrows finds out that his daughter is with a foreigner.
This film anticipates some of the subject matter of The Birth of a Nation, in simpler terms and with some sympathy to the north. A father bids a sad farewell to his family as he goes off to join the Union forces. Soon after he leaves, a frightened Confederate soldier arrives at the farm and asks for help from the young daughter that he finds there — she protects him from the pursuing Union soldiers but tells him to leave because he is a Confederate
Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Shot in three days, it was filmed at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City. Although some sources credit Thomas Edison as the producer, he in fact played no direct part in the activities of the motion picture company that bore his name.
A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn.
The Oyster Princess is a grotesque comedy presented in 4 acts about an American millionaire’s spoiled daughter’s marriage that just doesn’t go as planned. There is confusion and controversy, but also an amazing dance scene. It was released in 1919 and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This was among his more famous, which earned fame from his intangible use of style and sophistication in this movie among others. The term for his style was later dubbed “The Lubitsch Touch”.
This movie directed by D.W. Griffith it’s a story about Klu KluK Clan, it was extremely controversial at that time..
Lillian Gish is the star of this drama, about a blockhouse under siege by marauding Indians, until the cavalry arrives at the nick of time. Griffith believed this to be the best film he had done up to that time, and it was one of his most popular two-reelers, as well as one that pointed the way towards the large spic productions like The Birth of a Nation, that would follow.
