Edwin S. Porter Movies

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...

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.

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...

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

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

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.

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.

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.

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...

This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to...

Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.

A band of robbers are playing cards in the foreground of the picture. Suddenly one of the gang who has been on the lookout for the stage coach rides...

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into...

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

"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is...

It shows a garden wall in the background. Two lovers appear and lean over the garden gate where the moon throws a shadow upon the ground. The young...

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...