The Evolution of Comedy in Film | Part 1 (1894 – 1967)

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1894 – 1967 (part 1/2)

Music Used:
1. Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin - 1899
2. The Charleston - The Hollywood Ramblers - 1925
3. Sweet Georgia Brown - Coleman Hawkins with Benny Carter and Django Reinhardt - 1937
4. Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) - Benny Goodman - 1936
5. The Sabre Dance - Aram Khachaturian, George Greeley (from One, Two, Three) - 1961
6. La Passerella d'Addio - Nino Rota (from 8½) 1963

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Films Featured in Order:


Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894) - William K. Dickson
Robetta and Doretto (1895) - William K. Dickson
Watering the Gardener (1895) - Louis Lumiere
Patineur Grotesque (1897) - Marius Sestier
New Pillow Fight (1897) - Siegmund Lubin
The X Rays (1897) - George Albert Smith
The Miller and the Sweep (1897) - George Albert Smith
Above the Limit (1900) - Frederick S. Armitage
The Big Swallow (1901) - James Williamson
The Little Train Robbery (1905) - Edwin S. Porter
College Chums (1907) - Edwin S. Porter
A Calamitous Elopement (1908) - D.W. Griffith
The Taming of the Shrew (1908) - D.W. Griffith
Nursery Favorites (1913) - Allen Ramsey
A Busy Day (1914) - J. Stuart Blackton
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Henry Lehrman
The Tramp (1915) - Charlie Chaplin
The Vagabond (1916) - Charlie Chaplin
Easy Street (1917) - Charlie Chaplin
The Immigrant (1917) - Charlie Chaplin
Shoulder Arms (1918) - Charlie Chaplin
One Week (1920) - Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
The Kid (1921) - Charlie Chaplin
Our Gang (1922) - Robert F. McGowan, Tom McNamara
Now or Never (1921) - Fred C. Newmeyer, Hal Roach
Get Out and Get Under (1920) - Hal Roach
Dr. Jack (1922) - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Safety Last (1923) - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Girl Shy (1924) - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Three Ages (1923) - Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) - Buster Keaton
The Navigator (1924) - Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Seven Chances (1925) - Buster Keaton
Go West (1925) - Buster Keaton
The Gold Rush (1925) - Charlie Chaplin
The Freshman (1925) - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
For Heaven’s Sake (1926) - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
The General (1927) - Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
The Cameraman (1928) - Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwiick
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) - Charles Reisner
Speedy (1928) - Ted Wilde, Clyde Bruckman
The Circus (1928) - Charlie Chaplin
Liberty (1929) - Leo McCarey
The Cocoanuts (1929) - Joseph Stantley, Robert Florey
Animal Crackers (1930) - Victor Heerman
Monkey Business (1931) - Norman Z. McLeod
Horse Feathers (1932) - Norman Z. McLeod
Duck Soup (1933) - Leo McCarey
City Lights (1931) - Charlie Chaplin
Love Business (1931) - Robert F. McGowan
Bargain Day (1931) - Robert F. McGowan
Choo-Choo! (1932) - Robert F. McGowan
Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Ernst Lubitsch
Dinner at Eight (1933) - George Cukor
Sons of the Desert (1933) - William A. Selter
It’s a Gift (1934) - Norman Z. McLeod
The Thin Man (1934) - W.S. Van Dyke
It Happened One Night (1934) - Frank Capra
A Night at the Opera (1935) - Sam Wood
Anniversary Trouble (1935) - Gus Meins
Divot Diggers (1936) - Robert F. McGowan
Beginner’s Luck (1935) - Gus Meins
Disorder in the Court (1936) - Jack White
Our Relations (1936) - Harry Lachman
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Frank Capra
My Man Godfrey (1936) - Gregory La Cava
Modern Times (1936) - Charlie Chaplin
Topper (1937) - Norman Z. McLeod
Way Out West (1937) - James W. Horne
A Day in the Races (1937) - Sam Wood
Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Howard Hawks
You Can’t Take It with You (1938) - Frank Capra
The Rules of the Game (1939) - Jean Renoir
The Women (1939) - George Cukor
Ninotchka (1939) - Ernst Lubitsch
The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Victor Fleming
Saps at Sea (1940) - Gordon Douglas
The Philadelphia Story (1940) - George Cukor
One Night in the Tropics (1940) - A. Edward Sutherland
His Girl Friday (1940) - Howard Hawks
The Great Dictator (1940) - Charlie Chaplin
Sullivan’s Travels (1941) - Preston Sturges
Meet John Doe (1941) - Frank Capra
The Lady Eve (1941) - Preston Sturges
Woman of the Year (1942) - George Stevens
Road to Morocco (1942) - David Butler
To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Ernst Lubitsch
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Frank Capra
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Charlie Chaplin
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - George Seaton
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) - Henry C. Potter
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - Charles Barton
Adam’s Rib (1949) - George Cukor
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Robert Hamer
Whisky Galore (1949) - Alexander Mackendrick
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - Charles Crichton
Harvey (1950) - Henry Koster
All About Eve (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) - Anthony Asquith
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) - Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Howard Hawks
Stalag 17 (1953) - Billy Wilder
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) - Jacques Tati
Roman Holiday (1953) -William Wyler
Sabrina (1954) - Billy Wilder
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) - Ingmar Bergman
The Ladykillers (1955) - Alexander Mackendrick
The Seven Year Itch (1955) - Billy Wilder
Mister Roberts (1955) - Mervyn LeRoy, John Ford
Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Federico Fellini
Auntie Mame (1958) - Morton DaCosta
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) - Satyen Bose
Good Morning (1959) - Yasujiro Ozu
Pillow Talk (1959) - Michael Gordon
Mon Oncle (1958) - Jacques Tati
The Cow and I (1959) - Henri Verneuil
Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder
The Apartment (1960) - Billy Wilder
One, Two, Three (1961) - Billy Wilder
La Dolce Vita (1960) - Federico Fellini
Divorce, Italian Style (1961) - Pietro Germi
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) - Blake Edwards
Boccaccio ‘70 - Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Viisconti, Mario Monicelli
Charade (1963) - Stanley Donen
The Nutty Professor (1963) - Jerry Lewis
The Pink Panther (1963) - Blake Edwards
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) - Vittorio De Sica
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) - Stanley Kramer
8½ (1963) - Federico Fellini
Band of Outsiders (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard
Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
A Hard Day’s Night (1964) - Richard Lester
Zorba the Greek (1964) - Michael Cacoyannis
Marriage Italian Style (1964) - Vittorio de Sica
The Great Race (1965) - Blake Edwards
Boeing Boeing (1965) - John Rich
Intimate Lighting (1965) - Ivan Passer
Daisies (1966) - Vera Chytilova
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) - Mike Nichols
The Graduate (1967) - Mike Nichols

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