Dennis Grunes: Chronology of world cinema

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

In this extremely interesting picture we see the fishermen in their work of catching fish with nets and dragging them in by the ton. The first picture shows them drying and mending their nets and making ready to cast them. Next we see the beautiful harbor and their departure for the fishing banks. The men at the galleys pulling the big boats out into the stream and lowering their nets. Then we see them dragging them and throwing the fish into the boats by the thousands, setting sail and returning to land with their wonderful cargo of all kinds a sizes of fish. This film is educational and those who are fortunate enough to see it can gain a great deal of knowledge, for it gives all the principal details of fishing as a large enterprise.

Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?

Financial struggles separate a single mother from her children.

The wicked king wants his daughter, Princess Gloria, to marry a horrid courtier though she loves the gardener's boy Pon. After encountering Dorothy, Pon and her team up to defeat the evil witch Mombi and to rescue the princess.

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

A grief-stricken ballerina becomes the obsession of an increasingly unhinged artist.

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

A twelve-part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm.

The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

A newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Jean finds work at a local farm, but he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the conflicts in Françoise's family. Her uncle Fouan has just decided to divide everything that he has amongst his two sons and his daughter, hoping that he can then spend the rest of his life at ease. But the details of the division only create bitterness, rivalry, and intrigue.

In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Presents two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.

Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.

A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.