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* ''Film/FortyNineSeventeen''
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* 1874 -- ''Film/ThePassageOfVenus'': a series of photographs of the 1874 transit of Venus, shot with a "photographic revolver".
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* 1893-1895 -- William K.L. Dickson, working at Thomas Edison's studio, shot ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZa-RLtCU0 Blacksmith Scene]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaJ1r0udvQ Fred Ott's Sneeze]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hH8BMgpQnI Carmencita]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfqtorMruo The Great Sandow]]'', and others -- The first commercial movies ever. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKPj_ww1svk Dickson Experimental Sound Film]]'', the first sound picture, and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpNQJV8KblQ The Execution of Mary Stuart]]'', the first cinematic special effects, were also produced at the studio. In 1897, it [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters introduced the world to the first pornographic movie]] with ''Film/TheDoloritaPassionDance'' or ''Dolorita in the Passion Dance''. The film was removed from Atlantic City Kinetoscope parlors in 1895, this being perhaps the first instance of film censorship.

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* 1893-1895 -- William K.L. Dickson, working at Thomas Edison's studio, for UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, shot ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZa-RLtCU0 Blacksmith Scene]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaJ1r0udvQ Fred Ott's Sneeze]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hH8BMgpQnI Carmencita]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfqtorMruo The Great Sandow]]'', and others -- The first commercial movies ever. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKPj_ww1svk Dickson Experimental Sound Film]]'', the first sound picture, and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpNQJV8KblQ The Execution of Mary Stuart]]'', the first cinematic special effects, were also produced at the studio. In 1897, it [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters introduced the world to the first pornographic movie]] with ''Film/TheDoloritaPassionDance'' or ''Dolorita in the Passion Dance''. The film was removed from Atlantic City Kinetoscope parlors in 1895, this being perhaps the first instance of film censorship.
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* ''Literature/BenHur'' -- 13-minute adaptation with a pre-stardom William S. Hart as Messala.[[note]]Basically nothing but the part where the procurator gets bonked on the head, and the chariot race.[[/note]]
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* ''Film/JoanOfArc'' (George Melies tackles France's heroine)

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* ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'' (Melies' most famous film)

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* ''Literature/TerjeVigen'' - Adapted from the poem of the same name and considered the beginning of the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSinkingOfTheLusitania'' -- Winsor [=McCay=] defies the AnimationAgeGhetto
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* ''Film/SnowWhite1916'' --The first film version

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* ''Snow White'' --The first film version

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