Most Viewed From Edison Studios

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William K.L. Dickson

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: John P. Brawn

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Genre: Documentary

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A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

Genre: Comedy

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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

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife...

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Cast: Hadji Cheriff

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

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

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

Genre: Documentary

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