Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers (1895-1910), black & white, color-tinted black & white and color-toned black & white, 187 minutes total, BBFC Classification E, including Le débarquement du congrès de photographie à Lyon [Arrivée des Congressistes á Neuville-Sur-Sâone / Arrival of Congress Members at Neuville-Sur-Sâone] (1895), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Arrivée d’un train en gare á la Ciotat (1895), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, L’Arroseur arrosé (1895) [first version], black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Barque sortant de port (1895), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Démolition d’un mur (1895), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, The Derby (1895), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Partie d’écarte (1895), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Le repas de bébé (1895), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Rough Sea at Dover (1895), black & white, 30 seconds, BBFC Classification E, La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière (1895) [third version], black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Bataille de Boules de Neige (1896), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, [Leaving Jerusalem by Railway] (1896), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Niagara, les chutes (1896), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Sortie de la Pompe (Lyon) (1896), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Course de taureaux [Spanish Bullfight] (circa 1897), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Dewar’s — It’s Scotch (1897), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Come Along, Do! (1898) [incomplete], black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Miller and the Sweep (1898), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, As Seen Through a Telescope (1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Attack on a China Mission (1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Biter Bit (1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Explosion of a Motor Car (1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Grandma’s Reading Glass (1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Ladies’ Skirts Nailed to a Fence (circa 1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Let Me Dream Again (1900), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Rough Sea (circa 1900), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, The Big Swallow (1901), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Fire! (1901), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Historie d’un crime (1901), black & white, 5 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Mary Jane’s Mishap; or, Don’t Fool with Paraffin (1901), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Par le Trou de Serrue (1901), black & white, 2 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Réve et réalité (1901), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, Stop Thief! (1901), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Ali Baba et les Quarante Voleurs (1902) [incomplete 1905 rerelease version], color-tinted black & white, 9 minutes, BBFC Classification E, A Chess Dispute (1903), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Daring Daylight Burglary (1903), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Desperate Poaching Affray (1903), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903), black & white, 1 minute, BBFC Classification E, The Great Train Robbery (1903), color-toned black & white, 17 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Sick Kitten (1903), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Buy Your Own Cherries (1904), black & white, 4 minutes, BBFC Classification E, An Interesting Story (1904), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Other Side of the Hedge (1904), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Voyage a travers l’impossible (1904), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Rescued by Rover (1905), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, La révolution en Russie (1905), black & white, 4 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse (1906), color-tinted black & white, 12 minutes, BBFC Classification E, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906), black & white, 5 minutes, BBFC Classification E, The (?) Motorist (1906), black & white, 2 minutes, BBFC Classification E, A Visit to Peek Frean & Co.’s Biscuit Works (1906) [extracts], black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, Le cheval emballé (1907), black & white, 7 minutes, BBFC Classification E, That Fatal Sneeze (1907), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification E, [Magic Bricks] (1908), color-tinted black & white, 3 minutes, BBFC Classification E, The Physician of the Castle (1908), black & white, 6 minutes, BBFC Classification E, A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner (1910), black & white, 9 minutes, BBFC Classification E.

BFI Video Publishing, BFIVD643, UPC 5-035673-006436, EAN 5.03567E+12.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.0 surround sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate (music), Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate (commentary with music), and LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 1.5 Mbps audio bit rate (music); English language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; closed captions; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; £19.99.
Release date: 29 August 2005.
Country of origin: England