Dan Woodruff, film archivist at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archives, introduces a program of rare prints from the Archives' collection of films by those daring men with their movie machines, years ahead of their time but now known simply as “The Primitives”: Louis Lumière, inventor of the Cinématographe and also an excellent filmmaker; Georges Méliès, “the father of the narrative cinema,” who incorporated his genius as a magician into his films; Ferdinand Zecca, another French cinema pioneer who worked for Pathé in its infancy; Edwin S. Porter, the most important of the American cinema pioneers, and Thomas A. Edison, who patented the Kinetoscope. Included in the program are Edison's The Sneeze (1894-1896, 35mm); Lumière's First Motion Picture Program (1895, 35mm); The Eclipse by Méliès (1907, 35mm); Zecca's The Golden Beetle (1905, 35mm, hand-colored); Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903, 35mm, hand-colored); Highlights from the Paper Print Collection, films preserved thanks to the ancient copyright method of making paper prints of every frame!; Pigs Is Pigs (John Bunny Comedy, 1913, 35mm); and A Trip to Paramountown (1921, 35mm), behind the scenes with Rudolf Valentino, Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson and Cecil B. DeMille.