Most Viewed From Edison Studios

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Augustus Phillips

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gilbert M. Anderson

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Kayser

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Annabelle Moore

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: William K.L. Dickson

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Genre: Drama

Cast: May Irwin

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Annie Oakley

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: A.C. Abadie

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carmencita

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Mrs. Robert L. Thomas

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Ott

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Genre: Animation

Cast: J. Stuart Blackton

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Vivian Vaughan

Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carl Goliath

It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John R. Cumpson

“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...

Genre: Drama

Cast:

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Ott

Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace leads to tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bigelow Cooper