1900 E2 - Malcolm Cook

The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever

Malcolm Cook, Associate Professor of Film at the University of Southampton, found it challenging to pick just five works to represent 1900. But his selections embody the cross-section of genres and approaches across three countries, demonstrating how the turn of the century didn't suddenly disrupt the paradigms of the cinema of attractions but evolved them in exciting ways.
Malcolm is the author of Early British Animation: From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens (2018) and co-editor (with Kirsten Moana Thompson) of the collection Animation and Advertising (2019). His current research focusses on useful animation, especially in relation to petroleum industries, with recent articles on this published in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2023) and Media+Environment (2024).
Films and resources mentioned:

• The Enchanted Drawing (1900) - J. Stuart Blackton
• The One-Man Band (1900) - Georges Méliès
• Explosion of a Motor Car (1900) - Cecil Hepworth
• Solar Eclipse (1900) - Nevil Maskelyne
• Pierrette's Escapades (1900) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• A Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges Méliès
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Victor Fleming
• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895) - William K.L. Dickson and William Heise
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) - Louis Lumière
• How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) - Cecil Hepworth
• The Automatic Motorist (1911) - Walter R. Booth
• Crash (1996) - David Cronenberg
• The Magic Book (1900) - Georges Méliès
• Hugo (2011) - Martin Scorsese
• Women Film Pioneers Project