Edison Studios Movies
- 1903
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery7.0131903HD
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...
- 1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Dickson Experimental Sound Film6.2681894HD
William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.
- 1895
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots6.1751895HD
A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...
- 1903
Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman6.1161903HD
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...
- 1890
Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 14.91890HD
Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows...
- 1895
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance5.8881895HD
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...
- 1906
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend6.41906HD
A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...
- 1910
Frankenstein
Frankenstein61910HD
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...
- 1903
Electrocuting an Elephant
Electrocuting an Elephant2.7471903HD
This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.
- 1896
The Kiss
The Kiss5.211896HD
They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.
- 1893
Blacksmithing Scene
Blacksmithing Scene5.5571893HD
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
- 1901
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City5.3641901HD
A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...
- 1900
The Enchanted Drawing
The Enchanted Drawing6.4571900HD
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
- 1908
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest5.61908HD
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...
- 1904
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige31904HD
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.
- 1894
Caicedo (with Pole)
Caicedo (with Pole)5.9521894HD
King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.
- 1893
The Barber Shop
The Barber Shop4.9191893HD
“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both...
- 1914
The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus
The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus5.91914HD
When a burglar dressed as Santa Claus steals a family's Christmas presents, amateur detective Octavius sets out to recover the loot.
- 1903
The Gay Shoe Clerk
The Gay Shoe Clerk5.51903HD
A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.
- 1891
Dickson Greeting
Dickson Greeting4.8421891HD
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...