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The Visionaries, Madmen, and Tinkerers Who Created the Future That Never Was
SILENT F&SF MOVIES ON YOUTUBE 1907 - 1913
Part two of a comprehensive listing of all silent movies that are considered fantasy or science fiction and available in some form on YouTube. For details, see the Introduction on Silent F&SF Movies on YouTube 1895-1906. Click here for 1895-1906. Click here for 1914-1919. Click here for 1920-1929.
Abbreviations
d director
p producer
s screenwriter
c cinematographer
se special effects
lp leading players
co- in collaboration
1907
Deux Cent Mille Lieues sous les Mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ), also Under the Seas
9:56
d/p/c Georges Méliès
lp Corps de Ballet du Chatelet
L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon)
10:27
d/p/s Georges Méliès
lp Georges Méliès
Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais (Tunnelling the English Channel)
26:27
d/p/s Georges Méliès
lp Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Note: partially hand-colored
1908
El Hotel Electrico (The Electric Hotel)
9:31
d/p/c Segundo de Chomon
lp Segundo de Chomon, Julienne Mathieu
Note: Hardy gives this as 1905
La Photographie électrique à distance (Long Distance Wireless Photography)
7:00
d/p/s Georges Méliès
lp Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
1909
The Airship Destroyer, also The Battle in the Clouds, The Aerial Torpedo
13:29
d/s Walter R. Booth
p Charles Urban
Hydrothérapie Fantastique (The Doctor's Secret)
9:53
d/s/c Georges Méliès
lp Georges Méliès
Note: some sources put this in 1910
Le voleur invisible
7:43
d Segundo de Chomon
Note: hand-colored film also based on Wells' Invisible Man: see also l'homme invisible, 1906
1910
Frankenstein
13:38
d/s J Searle Dawley
p Thomas A. Edison
lp Augustus Phillips, Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle
Note: First adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel
Matrimonio interplanetario (A Marriage in the Moon)
12:57
d/s Enrico Novelli
Note: with English intertitles
A Trip to Mars
1:20:39
Note: No credits available, but produced by Edison's company
1911
The Automatic Motorist
6:23
d/s Walter R. Booth
p Charles Urban
c Harold Bastick
1912
À la conquête du pôle (The Conquest of the Pole)
30:13
d/p/s Georges Méliès
lp Georges Méliès
Note: based on Jules Verne's novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
11:42
d Lucius Henderson
p Edwin Thanhouser
lp James Cruze, Florence La Badie, Marie Eline, Harry Benham
Note: based on Thomas Russell Sullivan's 1887 play adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel; although he wasn't credited Harry Benham played Jekyll in many scenes
The Electric Leg
4:34
d Percy Stow
p H. V. Lawley
Man's Genesis
0:49
d D. W. Griffith
s D. W. Griffith, Frank Woods
c Billy Blitzer
lp Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Wilfred Lucas, William Chrystie Miller, Charles Mailes, W. C. Robinson
Note: fragment, but its footage was reused as the first half of The Primitive Man (1913); parodied in His Prehistoric Past (1914)
1913
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
26:59
d/s Herbert Brenon
p Carl Laemmle
lp King Baggot, Jane Gail, Matt Snyder, Howard Crampton, William Sorele
A Message from Mars
1:00:16
d/s J. Wallett Waller
p Nicholas Ormsby-Scott
lp Charles Hawtrey, E. Holman Clark, Chrissie Bell, Frank Hector, Hubert Willis, Kate Tyndale, Evelyn Beaumont, Eileen Temple, R. Crompton, B. Stanmore, Tonie Reith
Note: adapted from the 1899 play by Richard Ganthony
The Primitive Man, also Brute Force, Wars of Primal Tribes
20:15
d D. W. Griffith
s D. W. Griffith, Frank Woods
c Billy Blitzer
lp Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, William J. Butler, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin Curglot, Alfred Paget, Jennie Lee
Note: Sequel to Man's Genesis, incorporating 1000 feet of film but adding dinosaurs; released as The Primitive Man in 1913 and as Brute Force in 1914
Links updated on July 22, 2023
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