The Birth of Film 1. Firsts in Cinema. Watch Full American: The Bill Hicks Story 2002 there. Today, were rewinding the videotape to the early days of cinema. Were starting in 1. The first horror film. The first western. The first sci fi film. And all of the rest. Some films we have featured here before, others not. All appear in our collection of 4. Free Movies Online. Sit back and enjoy. If youre looking for the first movie ever made, you can look back to The Horse In Motion, created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1. Updated listing of film Noir and neoNoir in dvd and bluray release. The Film Spectrum began as a labor of love in May 2005, and after years of obsessive research, launched in October 2011. Two months later, The Washington Post praised. The next best thing to riding horses is watching horse movies. Everyone has a childhood favorite. See where yours ranks on our list. Far from the Madding Crowd. Not far from perfect adaptation. The Age of Adaline. Muybridge was asked by Leland Stanford railroad magnate, California senator, race horse owner, and eventual founder of Stanford University to answer a popularly debated question When a horse trots, do all four hooves leave the ground simultaneously Muybridges stop motion film made it clear that they do. Two of the names mentioned most often in Howard Hawks The Big Sleep 1946 are Owen Taylor and Sean Regan. One is the chauffeur for the wealthy Sternwood family. Pajiba Sweetened by Mock, Lightened by Droll. Heres an alphabetical listing of all our Film A Little Chaos Review Alan Rickman And Kate Winslet Reunite For A. AFQcNdART9I/WDD6gbyBkII/AAAAAAAAGyo/QwxUuZIyUzQk7HeOGqeFxtlacdgTV_MsACEw/s640/50%2BIn%2BCold%2BBlood%2B1967.jpg' alt='Film Noir Movies Get A Horse ' title='Film Noir Movies Get A Horse ' />A great film tradition the Western started in 1. The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porters 1. 0 minute film that combined western themes with innovative cinematic techniques narrative storytelling, parallel editing, minor camera movement, location shooting, etc. The film famously took its inspiration from an event that became the stuff of legend Butch Cassidys 1. Cassidy blowing open a safe and escaping with 5,0. Starting in the 1. John Wayne began shooting the first of many Westerns and took the genre to new heights. You can find 2. 5 Free John Wayne Films right here. A year before the Wright brothers launched the first airplane flight in 1. Georges Mlis, a French filmmaker with already 4. Loosely based on works by Jules Vernes From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells The First Men in the Moon, A Trip to the Moon Le voyage dans la lune invented one of our favorite cinematic genres the science fiction movie. Today, many film critics consider Mlis short movie an enduring classic. The Village Voice ranked it 8. Best Films of the 2. Century, and youll almost certainly recognize the iconic shot at the 4 4. Chalk another one up for Georges Mlis. Even before he brought sci fi to motion pictures, Mlis shot Le Manoir du Diable, or The Haunted Castle, in 1. In this three minute film, a bat flies into a medieval castle, turns into Mephistopheles, then gets chased away by a crucifix. There you have it, the essential ingredients of the vampire film. J. Searle Dawley wrote and directed Frankenstein. It took him three days to shoot the short, 1. It marked the first time that Mary Shelleys literary creation was adapted to film. And, somewhat notably, Thomas Edison had a hand albeit it an indirect one in making the film. The first Frankenstein was shot at Edison Studios, the production company owned by the famous inventor. In early 1. 92. 0, Robert Wiene premiered in Berlin his silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Ever since, critics have lavished praise upon Caligari, calling it a model of German expressionist film, the greatest horror film of early cinema, and an important influence on directors later working in the film noir tradition. And, whats more spoiler alert, Wienes film introduced the first twist ending to cinema. Today, you can watch this groundbreaking film in its entirety above, or by downloading it from the Internet Archive. Get more cinematic firsts after the jump. Emile Cohl, otherwise known as The Father of the Animated Cartoon, made Fantasmagorie in 1. Cohl made over 2. And several  Le cauchemar de Fantoche1. The Hashers Delirium 1. You. Tube. The artist and cartoon pioneer Winsor Mc. Cay 1. 86. 9 1. That distinction, we know, goes to Emile Cohl and his 7. Fantasmagorie1. 90. But Mc. Kay made a contribution to cartoons that is arguably even more important. Sweet, mischievous Gertie, with her ready tears, excitable nature, and complete inability to miss a chance to get herself in trouble, is widely credited as the first character created specifically for animation, and the first to demonstrate a personality all of her own. Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Bambi, even Wall e. Gertie, born circa 1. A few weeks ago, we posted New York Times critic A. O. Scotts thoughtful three minute look back at the surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou. The 1. 92. 9 BuuelDal production may well be the worlds most famous bit of early surrealist cinema, but it was not the first. That honor goes to another very strange and indubitably surreal short film screened in Paris in 1. The Seashell and the Clergyman, based on Antonin Artauds screenplay about a priest who lusts after a Generals wife, was directed by the cinema theorist, journalist, and critic Germaine Dulac 1. The worlds first hand tinted motion picture was produced by Thomas Edisons company, Edison Studios, in 1. The dancer, Annabelle Moore 1. Note the flashes of undergarment, all the way up to above the knee, about 2. The film is also worth comparing with a similar but much more delicately painted version done just five years later by the Lumiere brothers. The Jazz Singer 1. Starring Al Jolson, the very profitable musical launched the talking picture revolution and helped Warner Bros become one of the dominant studios. We have included a short clip above, but you can watch the full 8. Free Movies Online. A special thanks goes to Sheerly Avni who helped research and author some of the material appearing in this collection.