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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 Robbery7.01 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
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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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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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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
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Buffalo Dance
Buffalo Dance4.63 1894 HD
Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Hair Coat
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1903
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Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman6.09 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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1900
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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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1890
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Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 14.90 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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1907
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The 'Teddy' Bears
The 'Teddy' Bears5.50 1907 HD
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
Cast:
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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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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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1906
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Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend6.37 1906 HD
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
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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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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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1903
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The Gay Shoe Clerk
The Gay Shoe Clerk5.48 1903 HD
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.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Edward Boulden
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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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1894
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Caicedo (with Pole)
Caicedo (with Pole)5.95 1894 HD
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.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Juan A. Caicedo
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1891
Movies
Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete4.40 1891 HD
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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1897
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Seminary Girls
Seminary Girls5.10 1897 HD
From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: