List of science fiction films before 1920
A list of science fiction films released before the 1920s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable
critics or film historians.
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
1895 |
La Charcuterie mécanique | Lumière Brothers | |  | Short film[1] |
1897 |
Gugusse et l'Automate | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès |  | Short film[2] |
The X-Rays | George Albert Smith | |  | |
1898 |
Les rayons Röntgen | Georges Méliès | |  | |
1902 |
A Trip to the Moon | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès |  | Short film |
1907 |
20.000 Lieues Sous les Mers | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès |  | Short film |
The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and the Moon | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès |  | |
1908 |
El hotel eléctrico | Segundo de Chomón | Segundo de Chomón |  | Short film[3][4] |
1909 |
Airship Destroyer | Walter R. Booth | |  | Short film[5] |
Viaje al planeta Júpiter | Segundo de Chomón | Segundo de Chomón |  | Short film[3][4] |
1910 |
Frankenstein | J. Searle Dawley | Augustus Phillips, Charles Stanton Ogle, Mary Fuller |  | Short film |
Viaje al centro de la tierra | Segundo de Chomón | Segundo de Chomón |  | Short film[3][4] |
1911 |
Aerial Anarchists | Walter R. Booth | |  | Short film |
Little Moritz enlève Rosalie | Henri Gambard | |  | Short film |
1912 |
The Conquest of the Pole | George Melies | George Melies |  | Short film |
1913 |
Amerika – Europa im Luftschiff | Alfred Lind | |  | |
Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola | Marcel Fabre | |  | |
A Message From Mars (1913 film) | J. Wallett Waller | |  | |
1915 |
Der Kraftmeier | Ernst Lubitsch | Ernst Lubitsch |  | |
William Voss | Rudolf Meinert | |  | |
1916 |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Stuart Paton | Leviticus Jones, Alan Holubar |  | |
Homunculus | Otto Rippert | Olaf Fønss, Friedrich Kuehne |  | Serial film[6] |
Tales of Hoffman | Richard Oswald | Erich Kaiser-Titz, Werner Krauss |  | |
Titanenkampf | Joseph Delmont | Erich Kaiser-Titz |  | |
Verdens Undergang | August Blom | Alf Blütecher, Olaf Fønss, Johanne Fritz-Petersen |  | [7] |
1917 |
Himmelskibet | Holger-Madsen | Ole Olsen |  | |
1918 |
Alraune | Michael Curtiz, Edmund Fritz | Géza Erdélyi, Gyula Gál |  | |
Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne | Eugen Illés, Joseph Klein | Max Auzinger, Joseph Klein |  | |
The Master Mystery | Burton King | Harry Houdini, Ruth Stonehouse, William Pike, Floyd Buckley |  | Serial film[8][9] |
1919 |
Die Arche | Richard Oswald | Leo Connard, Eva Speyer |  | |
The First Men in the Moon | Bruce Gordon, J.L.V. Leigh | Bruce Gordon, Heather Thatcher, Lionel d'Aragon |  | |
The Mistress of the World | Joe May | Mia May, Michael Bohnen, Hans Mierendorff |  | |
See also
References
- ↑ Hardy, Phil (1994). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction. Overlook Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-87951-626-7.
- ↑ Benson, Michael (2002). Fighting Robots: A Guide to Radio-controlled Combatants. Citadel Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-8065-2372-7.
- 1 2 3 Jiménez, Jesús (18 February 2012). "La ciencia ficción, un género tan raro en el cine español como estimulante". rtve (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- 1 2 3 Merelo, Alfonso (14 December 2004). "Ecine de ciencia ficción en españa: Una aproximación". Ciencia-ficcion.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ↑ Paris, Michael (1995). From the Wright brothers to Top gun: aviation, nationalism, and popular cinema. Manchester University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-7190-4074-4.
- ↑ Prince, Stephen (2004). The Horror Film. Rutgers University Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-8135-3363-5.
- ↑ Mitry, Jean (1965). Filmographie Universelle (in French). 5. Paris, France: Institut des hautes Etudes cinématographiques. p. 155.
- ↑ Wollstein, Hans J. "The Master Mystery (1918)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
- ↑ Telotte, J. P. (1999). A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age. Wesleyan University Press. p. 100. ISBN 0-8195-6346-3.
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