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1910
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein6.04 1910 HD
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
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1903
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The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery7.02 1903 HD
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
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1893
Movies
Blacksmithing Scene
Blacksmithing Scene5.56 1893 HD
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
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1895
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Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance5.89 1895 HD
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
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1894
Movies
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Dickson Experimental Sound Film6.27 1894 HD
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
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1896
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The Kiss
The Kiss5.21 1896 HD
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
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1894
Movies
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley5.90 1894 HD
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
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1901
Movies
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City5.36 1901 HD
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
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1894
Movies
Carmencita
Carmencita5.27 1894 HD
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
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1895
Movies
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots6.20 1895 HD
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
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1894
Movies
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze4.88 1894 HD
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
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1900
Movies
The Enchanted Drawing
The Enchanted Drawing6.46 1900 HD
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
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1903
Movies
Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman6.07 1903 HD
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
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1897
Movies
Return of Lifeboat
Return of Lifeboat4.00 1897 HD
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:
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1894
Movies
Sioux Ghost Dance
Sioux Ghost Dance4.52 1894 HD
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:
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1903
Movies
Electrocuting an Elephant
Electrocuting an Elephant2.73 1903 HD
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
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1910
Movies
The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph
The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph4.70 1910 HD
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
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1893
Movies
The Barber Shop
The Barber Shop4.92 1893 HD
“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:
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1890
Movies
Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 14.87 1890 HD
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
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1912
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The Crime of Carelessness
The Crime of Carelessness5.20 1912 HD
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