January 20, 1970

Top 10 Films of the 1910's

1. "The Birth Of A Nation" (1915, D.W.Griffith, USA)

2. "Les Vampires" (1915, Louis Feuillade, France)

3. "The President" (1919, Carl T. Dreyer, Denmark)

4. "The Oyster Princess" (1919, Ernst Lubitsch, Germany)

5. "Intolerance" (1916, D.W.Griffith, USA)

6. "Juve contre Fantômas" (1913, Louis Feuillade, France)
  
7. "Cabiria" (1914, Giovanni Pastrone, Italy)

8. "Blind Justice" (1916, Benjamin Christensen, Denmark)

9. "Outlaw And His Wife" (1918, Victor Sjöström, Sweden)

10. "Maciste" (1915, Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Vincenzo Denizot, Italy)


Short Top 10

 1. "One A.M." (1916, Charles Chaplin, Mutual, USA)

2. "The Lonedale Operator" (1911, D.W.Griffith, Biograph, USA)

3. "Easy Street" (1917, Charles Chaplin, Mutual, USA)

4. "The Pawnshop" (1916, Charles Chaplin, Mutual, USA)

5. "The Immigrant" (1917, Charles Chaplin, Mutual, USA)

6. "The Adventurer" (1917, Charles Chaplin, Mutual, USA)

7. "Barney Oldfield's Race For A Life" (1913, Mack Sennett, Keystone, USA)

8. "Max prend un bain" (1911, Lucien Nonguet, France)

9. "Love, Loot And Crash" (1915, Mack Sennett, Keystone, USA)

10. "His Trysting Place" (1914, Charles Chaplin, Keystone, USA)


Cartoon Top 10:

1. "Zemsta kinooperatora" (1912, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Poland)

2. "How A Mosquito Operates" (1912, Winsor McCay, Vitagraph)

3. "Feline Follies" (1919, Otto Messmer, USA)

4. "Gertie The Dinosaur" (1914, Winsor McCay, Vitagraph)

5. "Little Nemo" (1911, Winsor McCay, Vitagraph)

6. "The Sinking Of The Lusitania" (1918, Winsor McCay, Universal)

7. "The Tantalizing Fly" (1919, Max Fleischer, Paramount)

8. "Never Again! The Story Of A Speeder Cop" (1916, Raoul Barré, USA)

9. "Bobby Bump's Fourth" (1917, Earl Hurd, Paramount)

10. "Boze Narodzenie w lesie" (1913, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Poland)


January 19, 1970

Top 10 Films of 1919

1. "The President" (Carl T. Dreyer, Denmark)

2. "The Oyster Princess" (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany)

3. "J'accuse" (Abel Gance, France)

4. "Back To God's Country" (David Hartford, Canada)

5. "Die Puppe" (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany)

6. "Madame Dubarry" (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany)

7. "Blind Husbands" (Erich von Stroheim, Universal)

8. "Sir Arne's Treasure" (Mauritz Stiller, Sweden)

9. "Male And Female" (Cecil B.DeMille, Paramount)

10. "L'Atleta fantasma" (Raimondo Scotti, Italy)


Other great films:

Barrabas (France)

Short Top 10:

1. "Hearts And Flowers" (Eddie Cline, Sennett)

2. "Sunnyside" (Charles Chaplin, First National)

3. "From Hand To Mouth" (Alf Goulding, Pathe)

4. "Bumping Into Broadway" (Hal Roach, Pathe)

5. "Ask Father" (Hal Roach, Pathe)

6. "A Day's Pleasure" (Charles Chaplin, First National)

7. "The Grocery Clerk" (Larry Semon, Vitagraph)

8. "My Brother Is Coming" (Michael Curtiz, Hungary)

9. "Billy Blazes, Esq." (Hal Roach, Pathe)

10. "The Brain Of Soviet Russia" (Dziga Vertov, Russia)


Other great shorts:

Polska delegacja na Konferencji Wersalskiej (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Feline Follies" (Otto Messmer, Sullivan)

2. "The Tantalizing Fly" (Max Fleischer, Bray, Paramount)

3. "Dud Leaves Home" (Wallace Carlson, Bray, Paramount)


Other great cartoons:

Oh'phelia (UK)

Weak films of 1919:

Broken Blossoms
The Busher
Don't Change Your Husband
The Greatest Question
A Romance Of Happy Valley
Spiders (Germany)
True-Heart Susie

Weak shorts:

Back Stage
Captain Kidd's Kids
The Chef
The Detectress
Don't Shove
The Hayseed
His Royal Slyness
I'M On My Way
A Jazzed Honeymoon
Looking For Trouble
Neighbours
Never Touched Me
Next Aisle Over
Pay Your Dues
Ring Up The Curtain
Rowdy Ann
A Sammy In Siberia
Spring Fever