Films that would have been interesting to watch had they survived
These shorts all would've been quite interesting to see but sadly none of them survive. What a pity.
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- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsJames C. DuncanShort, experimental film depicting James C. Duncan smoking a pipe.If this film survives, it certainly ain't available on YouTube. The most I've seen of it is a single image.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsFred C. DevonaldJames C. DuncanAgain, not on YouTube.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsJames C. DuncanOne of the sequels to "Duncan Smoking" and again it isn't on YouTube.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseShort film featuring two monkeys fighting.From what I've read it shows two monkeys boxing, but again, why isn't it available on YouTube?
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonLost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.I'm guessing it was another of those sport films from Edison.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsLittle is known about this lost film, other than its comedic intent.I have absolutely no idea what this film featured. It was probably another one-gag film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsLittle is known about this lost film, which presumably features a gardener.So it don't sound interesting, but the fact it is lost makes it all the more mysterious.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorgette MélièsLittle is known about this lost film, which presumably features young baby girls.Probably a Melies actuality, his fourteenth film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsVery little is known of this lost Georges Melies film, but the title indicates it may have featured children riding a merry-go-round.Probably an early actuality film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsI suppose only the title can tell us what this one was about.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the statesman and historian Adolphe Thiers with stunning rapidity.One of Melies's "Lightning Sketch" films.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the statesman and Liberal Unionist Joseph Chamberlain with stunning rapidity.One of Melies's "Lightning Sketch" films.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing Her Majesty H. M. Queen Victoria with stunning rapidity.One of Melies's "Lightning Sketch" films.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis lost film featured a talented sketch artist drawing the Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismark with stunning rapidity.One of Melies's "Lightning Sketch" films.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsLittle is known about this lost short film, other than it may have been similar to the Lumiere Brothers' "Employees Leaving the Factory" from the previous year.It would've been interesting to see if this one was similar to the Lumiere's film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsTsar Nicholas IITsarina AlexandraSounds like a parade.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsTsar Nicholas IIThe followup to the latter.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsSounds like it has to do with natives.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsSounds kinda funny.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsI wonder what it was that made the Muslim so hilarious.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGugusseGugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.A lost comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsMust have been an erotic notion.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsA pottery maker?
- DirectorGeorges MélièsSounds dramatic.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsPaulusOne of Melies's "Comedian Paulus Singing" films.