The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this 5-part collection of the cinema's formative works which reveal the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema would later evolve. In this third program the films presented here, ranging from the ingeniously creative to the boldly audacious, offer a sampling of the primitive masterworks from the first ten years of motion picture production that allowed the technical novelty of cinema to so quickly flourish into an artistically expressive medium.

Originally produced in 1994.

C. Hepworth: How it feels to be run over (1900); Explosion of a motor car (1900); Rescued by Rover (1905). -- L. Fitzhamon: Other side of the hedge (1905); That fatal sneeze (1905). -- Cricks and Martin: Visit to Peek Frean & Co.'s bisquet works (1906). -- Kineto Production Co.: Day in the life of a coalminer (1910). -- C. Freres: Peeping Tom (1901). -- F. Zecca: Ali Baba and the forty thieves (1902-05); Story of a crime (1901); Dream and reality (1901). -- L. Nouquet. Revolution in Odessa (1905); Aladdin or the marvelous lamp (1906). -- P. Zecca: Runaway horse (1907); Physician of the castle (1908). -- G. Velle: Magic bricks (1908). -- International Film Co.: Dewar's Scotch whiskey (1897). -- E. Porter: Gay shoe clerk (1903); Dream of a rarebit fiend (1906).