# 1909 E3 - Donald Crafton

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Podcast: [The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535)
Published: 2025-12-10T07:00:08+00:00
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## Resource

Author and scholar Donald Crafton wrote Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928 , a defining work of early animation history. Yet with the exception of one example from a filmmaker much discussed in that book and especially his other Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film , his picks range into the live action territory of editing innovations alongside the still-surviving tradition of trick films and actualities. Donald also wrote on the transition from silent cinema to sound production in The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 . Since retiring, he has written a play, Winsor and Gertie, that has been produced in Europe and the U.S, and which he has recently adapted as a feature-length screenplay. Films and resources mentioned: The Lonely Villa (1909) - D.W. Griffith The Spider and the Butterfly (1909) - Georges Méliès A Trip to the White Seas Fisheries (1909) - Joe Rosenthal Dick Is Not Dead (1909) - unknown The Man in the Moon (1909) - Étienne Arnaud and Émile Cohl The Scarlet Drop (1918) - John Ford The Adventures of Dollie (1908) - D.W. Griffith Hugo (2011) - Martin Scorsese Cyrano de Bergerac (1923) - Augusto Genina Baron Munchausen’s Dream (1911) - Georges Méliès Slippery Jim (1909) - Segundo de Chomón Wild and Woolly (1917) - John Emerson Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Luis Buñuel Fantasmagorie (1908) - Émile Cohl Women Film Pioneers Project

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