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 Baby – Robert 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