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旧青山ゼミ＆安井ゼミの合同新年会。朝までコース。大雨の中、帰りにぽんずフィルムの事務所を訪問。欲しかったブツをいろいろコピってもらっているうちに昼になり、雨も上がる。

a)『The Movies Begin 第一巻』◎
収録内容は以下の通り（面倒なので監督名等は省略。あと英題で失礼します）。『The Georgetown Loop』の列車からのリスキーなトラヴェリング・ショットに大興奮。クレジットを見たらグリフィスと組む前のビリー・ビッツァーの撮影だった。やっぱ天才だわ、この人。

Homage To Eadweard Muybridge (1880s)

[Edison Shorts (1894-1897)]
The Kiss (1896)/Serpentine Dances (1895)/Sandow (Strong Man) (1894)/Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)/Cock Fight (1896)/The Barber Shop (1894)/Feeding The Doves (1896)/Seminary Girls (1897)

[Lumière Films (1895-96)]
Swimming In The Sea/Children Digging For Clams/Loading A Boiler/Dragoons Crossing The Sâone/Promenade Of Ostriches/Childish Quarrel/Lion, London Zoological Garden/Photograph/Transformation By Hats/Carmaux: Drawing Out The Coke/Poultry-Yard/Arab Cortege, Geneva/New York: Brooklyn Bridge/New York: Broadway and Union Square/Policeman's Parade, Chicago

A Trip To The Moon (1902)

[Actualities]
President McKinley At Home (1897)/Packtrain On Chilkoot Pass (1898)/Skyscrapers Of New York City (1903)/The Georgetown Loop (1903)/San Francisco: Aftermath Of Earthquake (1906)/The Dog And His Various Merits (1908)/Moscow Clad In Snow (1908)/Airplane Flight And Crash (1910)

[Blue Movies]
Fire In A Burlesque Theatre (1908)/Airy Fairy Lilian Tries On Her New Corsets (1908)/From Show Girl To Burlesque Queen (1908)/Troubles Of A Manager Of A Burlesque Show (1908)

The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Whole Dam Family And The Dam Dog (1905)
The Golden Beetle (1907)