Progetto Fantascienza

L’idea di partire con un Progetto Fantascienza nasce, come è ovvio, dai miei interessi personali per l’argomento ma non solo. La cosa che mi ha più stupito e spinto alla creazione di questa iniziativa è l’aver notato come fin dalle origini questo genere abbia subito affascinato e ispirato autori e spettatori. La fantascienza, come avrò modo di dire più volte nel corso del progetto, non è solamente uno svago disinteressato, ma spesso e volentieri diviene specchio della situazione storica e culturale in cui il film o il racconto vedono la luce. Come spesso accade, quindi, il film può assumere diversi punti di lettura a seconda della profondità dell’analisi. In alcuni casi cercherò di mettere in evidenza i punti chiave per questa interpretazione qualora, ovviamente, io sia riuscito ad intravederli.

Dopo queste poche righe metterò il link alla presentazione del progetto, postata in data 08/03/2013, e sotto l’elenco (in continuo aggiornamento) dei film di fantascienza di cui sono venuto a conoscenza. Vi sono ovviamente grato di eventuali consigli su aggiunte o modifiche e in particolare per aiuti nel reperire quei film che, pur non essendo perduti, sono purtroppo di difficilissima o impossibile reperibilità.
Colgo infine l’occasione per ringraziare Alan M. Rosiene, per la sua disponibilità e gentilezza (in particolare riguardo le informazioni contenute in questa pagina).

PROGETTO FANTASCIENZA:

Presentazione del progetto

– Elenco dei film in ordine di cronologico:

1895: La Charcuterie mécanique – Les frères Lumière
1897: X ray Fiend – George A. Smith
1897: Making Sausages – George Albert Smith
1897: Gugusse et l’automate – Georges Méliès (*)
1897: The Sausage Machine – Anonimo (**)
1897: Chirurgien américain – Georges Méliès (*)
1897: Les rayons Roentgen – Georges Méliès (*)
1898: La Luna a un metro (La Lune à un mètre) – Georges Méliès
1898: Branding Cattle – James H. White (*)
1899: The X-Ray Mirror – Wallace McCutcheon  (*?)
1899: La pierre philosophale – Georges Méliès (*)
1900: Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique – Alice Guy
1900: Chirurgie fin de siècle – Alice Guy
1900: Coppélia ou la poupée animée – Georges Méliès (*)
1901: L’Uomo dalla Testa di Caucciù (L’Homme à la Tête en Caoutchouc) – Georges Méliès
1901: An Over Incubated BabyRobert W. Paul
1901: A la conquête de l’air – Ferdinand Zecca
1901: Fun in a Butcher Shop – Anonimo
1901: The Elixir of Life – James A. Williamson (*)
1902: Viaggio nella Luna (Voyage dans la Lune) – Georges Méliès
1902: The Twentieth Century Tramp – Edwin S. Porter
1902: The marvellous hair restorer – James A. Williamson (*)
1903: A Message from Mars – W.F. Brown (*)
1903: The adventurous voyage of the arctic  – Walter R. Booth (*)
1904: Viaggio attraverso l’impossibile (Voyage à travers l’impossible) – Georges Méliès
1904: Dog factory – Edwin S. Porter
1905: Le raid Paris-Monte Carlo en deux heures – Georges Méliès
1905: El Hotel Electrico – Segundo de Chomón
1905: Rêve à la Lune AKA L’amant de la Lune – Ferdinand Zecca & Gastón Velle
1905: Sausages – James A. Williamson (*)?
1905: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Wallace McCutcheon (*)
1906: The ‘?’ Motorist – Water R. Booth
1906: Voyage autour d’une étoile – Gaston Velle
1906: Le Dirigeable Fantastique – Georges Méliès
1906: Rescued in mid air – Percy Stow
1906: The Pill Maker’s Mistake  – Lewin Fitzhamon (*)
1907: Il Tunnel sotto la Manica (Le Tunnel sous la Manche) – Georges Méliès
1907: Ventimila leghe sotto i mari (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) – Georges Méliès
1907: L’eclipse du soleil en pleine lune – Georges Méliès
1907: Liquid Electricity – Stuart Blackton
1907: Dr. Skinum – Wallace McCutcheon (**)
1907: Love Microbe – Wallace McCutcheon (**)
1907: La ceinture electrique – Romeo Rossetti (*)
1907: Work Made Easy – James Stuart Backton (**)
1907: The Mechanical Statue and the Ingenious Servant – James Stuart Backton (*)?
1908: Voyage à la planete Jupiter – Segundo de Chomón
1908: La Fotografia elettrica a distanza (Photographie électrique à distance) – Georges Méliès
1908: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Otis Turner (*)
1908: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Sidney Olcott (*)
1908: The Doctor’s Experiment – anonimo (*)
1908: When the Man in the Moon Seeks a Wife – Percy Stow (*)?
1908: Galvanic Fluid – James Stuart Backton (*)?
1908: The Invisible Fluid  – Wallace McCutcheon (*)?
1908: The Airship – James Stuart Backton (*)
1908: The Man Who Learned to Fly – Lewin Futzhamon (*)
1908: La cuisine magnétique – Segundo de Chomón (*)
1908: The Monkey Man – Anonimo (*)?
1909: Electric Transformations – Percy Stow
1909: The Airship Destroyer – Walter R. Booth
1909: Excursion dans la Lune – Segundo de Chomón
1909: Hydrothérapie fantastique – Georges Méliès
1909: Clair de lune espagnol – Émile Cohl
1909: Le Voleur Invisible – Segundo de Chomón
1909: Le Voyage sur Jupiter – Segundo de Chomón
1909: L’Homme-singe – Georges Monca (*)?
1909: Life in the Next Century – Gerard Bourgeois (**)
1909: The Wonderful Electro-Magnet – Anonimo (*)?
1909: Bleary Oh: The Village Aviator – Anonimo (*)
1909: A Maker of Diamonds – Stuart Blackton (*)?
1909: The Electric Policeman – Anonimo (**)
1909: Earthquake Alarum – Anonimo (*)
1909: Voyage au centre de la terre – Anonimo (*)
1909: Professor Puddenhead’s Patents: The Electric Enlarger – Walter R. Booth (*)?
1909: Up the Pole – Walter R. Booth (*)?
1909: The Rubber Man – Anonimo (*)
1909: Professor Puddenhead’s Patents – The Aerocab and Vacuum Provider- Walter R. Booth (*)?
1909: The Pulveriser – Anonimo (*)
1910: Frankenstein –  James Searle Dawley
1910: Un Matrimonio Interplanetario – Enrico Novelli
1910: A Trip to Mars – Ashley Miller
1910: La police en l’an 2000 – Anonimo
1910: Aerial Submarine – Walter R. Booth
1910: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Den Skæbnesvangre opfindelse) – August Blom (*)
1910: The Duality of Man – H.B. Irving (*)
1910: Freezing Mixture – Walter R. Booth & Theo Bouwmeester (*)?
1910: Burglary by Airship – Anonimo (*)
1910: Setting Back the Hands of Time – Anonimo (*)
1910: Dr. Smith’s Automaton – Anonimo (*)
1910: The Electric Vitaliser – Walter R. Booth (*)?
1910: Back to Life After 2,000 Years – Anonimo (*)
1910: Looking Forward – Theodore Marston (*)
1910: The Comet – Anonimo (**)
1911: The Automatic Motorist – Walter R. Booth
1911: Pirates of 1920 – David Aylott & A.E. Coleby
1911: Aerial Anarchists – Walter R. Booth (*)
1911: L’électrocuté – Camille de Morlhon (*)?
1911: Hoffmanns erzählungen – Claudius Veltée, Anton Kolm, Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck (*)/(*)?
1911: The Inventor’s Secret – Mack Sennett (*)
1911: Scroggins Goes in for Chemistry and Discovers a Marvellous Powder – A.E. Coleby (*)
1911: The Motor Car of the Future – Anonimo (*)
1911: Vers l’immortalité – Anonimo (**)
1911: The Electric Villa – Anonimo (*)?
1911: Tontolini invulnerabile – Ferdinand Guillaume (*)?
1911: One Hundred Years After – Anonimo (*)
1911: Effetti di un razzo – Anonimo (*)
1912: Alla Conquista del Polo (A la conquête du Pôle) – Georges Méliès
1912: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Lucius Henderson
1912: Onésime horloger – Jean Durand
1912: Freezing Auntie – Marion Brooks (*)?
1912: A Message from the Moon – Mack Sennett (*)?
1912: La ceinture electrique – Anonimo (*)?
1912: Sammy’s Flying Escapades – Anonimo (*)
1913: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Herbert Brenon
1913: Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola – Marcel Fabre
1913: Un Messaggio da Marte (A Message from Mars) – Wallet Waller
1913: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Charles Urban (*)
1913: A Modern Jekyll and Hyde – Robert Borderick (*)?
1913: From the Beyond – O.A.C. Lund (*)?
1913: An Hour Before Dawn – Searle Dawley (*)
1913: Balaoo – Victorin-Hyppolyte Jasset (*)
1914: A Modern Fairy Tale – Lois Weber (*)?
1914: A Trip to the Moon – Vincent Whitman (*)
1914: Ein Seltsamer Fall – Max Mack (*)
1914: Victims of Speed – Edward Dillon (*)
1914: Cue and Miss Cue – Étienne Arnaud (*)
1914: Mars’Stepson (Пасынок Марса) –  Ladislas Starewich (**)
1914: The exploits of Elaine – Leopold Wharton, George B. Seitz, Louis J. Gasnier (*)
1914: Neptune’s Daughter – Herbert Brenon (*)
1914: In the Year 2014 – Max Asher (*)?
1914: The Miser’s Reversion – Anonimo (*)?
1914: The Electric Girl – Anonimo (*)?
1914: The Magic Glass – Hay Plumb (*)?
1914: Le Téléphone qui accuse – Henri Desfontaines, Paul Garbagni (*)?
1914: The Great German North Sea Tunnel – Frank S. Newman (*)
1914: The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray – Charles L. Gaskill (*)
1915: La folie du docteur Tube – Abel Gance
1915: The Menace of the Air – Walter R. Booth (riproposizione di The Airship Destroyer)
1915: Filibus: Il misterioso pirata del cielo – Mario Roncoroni
1915: The Black Box – Otis Turner (*)
1915: Horrible Hyde – Howell Hansel (*)
1915: Mrs. Raffles Née Pimple – Fred & Joe Evans (*)
1915: The Mechanical Man – Allen Curtis (*)?
1915: The Mysterious Contragrav – Henry MacRae (*)
1915: The Secret Room – Tom Moore (*)
1915: The Return of Maurice Donnelly – William Humphrey (*)?
1915: The Nation’s Peril – George Terwilliger (*)
1915: Life Without Soul – Joseph W. Smiley (*)
1915: Pawns of Mars – Theodore Marston (*)
1915: Beneath the Sea – Sigmund Lubin (*)
1915: Old Dutch – Frank Hall Crane (*)
1915: The Wolf Man – Paul Powell (*)
1916: Ventimila leghe sotto i mari (20.000 Leagues Under the Sea) – Stuart Paton
1916: Homunculus – Otto Rippert
1916: The End of the World (Verdens Undergang) – August Blom
1916: Hoffmanns Erzählungen – Richard Oswald
1916: Die Große Wette – Harry Piel (*)?
1916: L’Uomo dall’Orecchio Mozzato – Ubaldo Maria Del Colle (*)
1916: Bluff – Rae Berger (*)
1916: The Flying Torpedo – Christy Cabanne (*)
1916: The Fall of a Nation Thomas Dixon Jr. (*)
1916: Der Yoghi – Paul Wegener (*)
1916: Without a Soul – James Young (*)
1916: The Intrigue – Frank Lloyd (*)?
1916: The Crimson Stain Mystery – T. Hayes Hunter (**)
1916: Her Invisible Husband – Matt Moore (*)
1916: Through Solid Walls – Walter Murton (*)
1916: The Hand of Peril – Maurice Tourneur (*)
1916: The Comet’s Comeback – Anonimo (*)?
1916: My Country First – Tom Terriss (*)?
1917: L’Astronave (Himmelskibet) – Holger-Madsen
1917: Ever Been Had? – Dudley Buxton
1917: The Mystery Ship – Henry McRae, Francis Ford, Harry Harvey (*)
1917: The Fatal Ring – George B. Seitz (*)/(*)?
1917: The Greatest Power – Edward Le Saint, Edwin Carewe (*)?
1917: Crosseyed Submarine: or, 20,000 Peeks Under the Sea – William Beaudine (*)?
1917: Az osember – Cornelius Hinter (*)
1917: The Dream Doll – Howard S. Moss (*)
1917: The Submarine Eye – Winthrop Kelley (*)?
1917: The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee – Bertram Bracken (*)
1917: The Love Doctor – Anonimo (*)
1918: The Ghost of Slumber Moutain – Willis H. O’Brien (non accreditato)
1918: The Star Prince – Madeline Brandeis (nella raccolta Early Women Filmmakers)
1918: Alraune – Micheal Curtiz & Edmund Fritz (*)
1918: Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne – Eugen Illés & Joseph Klein (**)
1918: Das andere Ich – Fritz Freisler (*)?
1918: Hans Kæreste – Hjalmar Davidsen (*)?
1918: The Craving – Francis Ford (*)
1918: The Mind-Detecting Ray (A Léleklátó sugár) – Alfréd Deésy (*)?
1919: The Master Mystery – Harry Grossman, Burton L. King
1919: Alraune und der Golem – Nils Olaf Chrisander (*)
1919: Die Arche – Richard Oswald (**)
1919: Lilith und Ly – Erich Kober (*)?
1919: The Carter Case – Donald Mackenzie (*)
1919: The First Men in the Moon – Bruce Gordon & J.L.V. Leigh (*)
1919: The Great Air Robbery – Jacques Jaccard (*)

1920: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – John S. Robertson
1920: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – J. Charles Haydon
1920: Terror Island – James Cruze
1920: Algol, Eine Tragödie der Macht – Hans Werckmeister
1920: Her First Flame – Bruno C. Becker (extra del dvd Roman Candles della Grapevine)
1920: Melchiad Koloman – Rudolf Liebscher
1920: Go and Get it – Marshall Neilan & Henry Roberts Symonds (**)
1920: All Aboard for the Moon – Max Fleischer (*)?
1920: A Trip to Mars – Bud Fisher (*)?
1920: La Testa di Giano (Der Januskopf) – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (*)
1920: The Invisible Ray – Harry A. Pollard (*)
1920: The Devil to Pay – Ernest C. Warde (*)?
1920: The Empire of Diamonds – Léonce Perret (**)
1920: Il Mostro di Frankenstein – Eugenio Testa (*)
1920: The Flaming Disk – Robert Hill (*)
1920: The Yellow Typhoon – Edward José (*)?
1920: The Branded Four – Duke Worne (*)
1921: L’Atlantide – Jacques Feyder
1921: L’Uomo Meccanico – André Deed
1921: La tempesta in un cranio – Carlo Campogalliani
1921: Die Insel der Verschollenen – Urban Gad (Extra della versione 3disc di  Lost Soul)
1921: A Message from Mars – Maxwell Karger (*)?
1921: The Ship That Was Sent Off to Mars – Raymond Griffith (*)?
1922: The Man from Beyond – Burton L. King
1922: A Blind Bargain – Wallace Worsley (*)
1922: Nan of the North – Duke Worne (*)
1922: Parema, Das Wesen aus der Sternenwelt – Mano Ziffer-Teschenbruk (*)?
1922: Radio-Mania/M.A.R.S. – Roy William Neill (*)
1922: The Radio King – Robert Hill (*)
1922: The Sky Ranger – George B. Seitz (**)
1922: The Young Diana – Albert Capellani & Robert G. Vignola (*)?
1923: Black Oxen – Frank Lloyd
1923: The Man Without Desire – Adrian Brunel
1923: The Sky Splitter – Ashley Miller & John Norling (*)
1923: The Uknown Purple – Roland West (*)
1923: Red Lights – CLarence G. Badger (*)?
1923: The Eleventh Hour – Bernard J. Durning (*)?
1923: Legally Dead  – William Parke (*)
1924: Aelita (Аэлита) – Jakov Aleksandrovič Protazanov
1924: The Fugitive Futurist: a Q-riosity by “Q – Gaston Quiribet
1924: Futurismo (L’Inhumaine) – Marcel l’Herbier
1924: Le Mani dell’Altro (Orlacs Hände) – Robert Wiene
1924: A Trip to Mars – Max Fleischer
1924: Interplanetary Revolution (Mezhplanetnaya revolutsiya) – Zenon Komissarenko, Yuriy Merkulov and Nikolay Khodatayev
1924: Laughing at Danger – James W. Horne
1924: La Cité Foudroyée – Luitz Morat
1924: Terrore (Terreur) – Gérard Bourgeois & Edward José
1924: La bambola vivente – Luigi Maggi
1924: The Last Man on Earth – John G. Blystone (**)
1924: Vanity’s Price – Roy William Neill (*)
1924: The Story Without a Name – Irvin Willat (*)
1924: Sinners in Silk – Hobart Henley (*)
1925: Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde – Scott Pembroke & Joe Rock
1925: Il Mondo Perduto (The Lost World) – Harry Hoyt
1925: Il Raggio della Morte (Luch Smerti) – Lev Kulešov
1925: La strega di York (The Road to Yesterday) – Cecil B. De Mille
1925: Il Mostro (The Monster) – Roland West
1925: Parigi che dorme (Paris qui dort) – René Clair
1925: The Power God – Francis Ford, Ben F. Wilson
1925: In the World of the Stars (Wunder der Schöpfung) – Hanns Walter Kornblum
1925: il Fantasma del Moulin Rouge (Le Fantôme du Moulin-Rouge) – René Clair
1925: Up the Ladder – Edward Sloman
1925: Madrid en el año 2000 – Manuel Noriega  (*)
1925: The Mystery of Lost Ranch – Tom Gibson, Harry S. Webb (*)?
1925: One Way Street – John Francis Dillon (*)
1926: Dog Gone – Bud Fisher
1926: Lightning Hutch – Charles Hutchison
1926: Il Mago (The Magician) – Rex Ingram
1926: Officer 444 – Francis Ford
1926: Felix the Cat Flirts with Fate – Otto Messmer
1926: Miss Mend – Fëdor Ocep & Boris Barnet
1926: The Savage – Fred Newmeyer (*)
1926: The Secret Kingdom – Sinclair Hill (*)?
1926: Doubling with Danger – Scott R. Dunlap (*)?

1926: The Scarlet Streak – Henry MacRae (*)
1926: The Silent Flyer – William James Craft (*)
1927: At the edge of the World (Am Rande Der Welt) – Karl Grune
1927: A Wild Roomer – Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller
1927: Metropolis – Fritz Lang
1927: Sur un air de Charleston – Jean Renoir
1927: The Missing Link – Charles R. Reisner (**)
1927: Smiling Billy – Duke Worne (*)?
1927: The Wizard – Richard Rosson (*)
1927: Blake of Scotland Yard – Robert Hill (*)
1928: La Mandragora (Alraune) – Henrik Galeen
1928: Ko-Ko’s Earth Control – Dave Fleischer
1928: Ransom – George B. Seitz (*)
1928: The Code of the Air – James P. Hogan (*)
1929: High Treason – Maurice Elvey
1929: Una Donna nella Luna (Frau im Mond) – Fritz Lang
1929: Midstream – James Flood (frammentario, extra nel DVD di “The Phantom of The Opera” della collana Milestone Collection)
1929: The King of the Kongo – Richard Thorpe
1929: The Kid’s Clever – William James Craft (*)
1929: Stark Mad – Lloyd Bacon (*)
1929: The Sky Skidder – Bruce M. Mitchell (*)?

Legenda:
(*) perduto
(*)? probabilmente perduto (in alcuni casi forse non di fantascienza)
(**) film non edito/reperibile seppur conservato

7 pensieri su “Progetto Fantascienza

  1. Dear friends, Sorry for write you in english, I don’t speak italian.

    There are good news from BFI. Now there is a brand new sci-fi section on BFI player where you will find incredible additions for Progetto Fantascienza. Check it now!

    I’ve founded an excerpt from “Liquid Electricity” included in a nice documentary from Thames Television (min. 06.29) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyND6k3Z1M]

    Finally and sadly, Filmoteca Española confirms to me the 1925’s film Madrid en el año 2000 is totally lost 🙁

    Thank you very much.

    • thank you for sharing the excerpt from “liquid Electricity”, the film seems very funny! I’m sad reading your news about “Madrid”, hope some private collector still have it in his collection or (who knows?) that is preserved in a Cinematheque around the World.
      Thank you 🙂

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