The Black Imp (1905/Melies) Enjoyable Melies piece, notable for its use of cinematic innovations to create humor. He uses some of the same effects here as he does in A Trip to the Moon.
A Corner in Wheat (1909/Griffith) My introduction to Griffith. Decent.
The Lonedale Operator (1911/Griffith) Griffith moves into more complex editing and scene framing techniques. Interesting to see the films that would come to define the informal set of rules by which films are still shot and edited to this day. This film contains one of the first ever instances of a moving camera, as one shot is taken from a moving train.
