Edwin S. Porter Movies

Third part in Edison’s “Martinique” trilogy. It shows the shower of ashes and cinders falling upon the stricken city, the boiling...

1906 film by Edwin S. Porter, based on a popular song of the same title.

A most interesting picture at the Pan-American Exposition. The picture was taken from the north side of the Electric Tower. It presents the most...

Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a...

A policeman has breakfast with his wife and children, and then prepares for the day's work. While on his beat, he finds and helps a lost child....

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

The severe cold of the winter of 1903-04 allowed the rapids of Niagara Falls to freeze over, allowing the brave tourists to enter the chasm and cross...

A fire has swept through Durland's Riding Academy in Manhattan. The fire has mostly died down, but firefighters are still at the scene, hosing down...

A fire fighting demonstration in Luna Park, Coney Island. on August 15, 1904.

We present here a series of interesting pictures and show a number of scenes just as witnessed by a visitor to the Great Forepaugh and Sells Bros....

Shows a suburbanite asleep in bed. He discovers he has overslept himself, and jumps out of bed.

Dreamland was a theme park at Coney Island, Brooklyn that opened in 1904. One of its major attractions was the stunt spectacular "Fighting the...

A magnificent picture of this boat making a run and starting the water from a least a dozen nozzles at once...

A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.

This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of...

Scene III of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a bargain counter in a department store and a large gathering of women examining goods. It is a special...

Two lifeguards rescue a female bather after faltering and sinking while swimming.

Casey enters a subway station nearby City Hall and walks down the tunnel. He lights a fuse to set off a blast and runs away. Thinking the fuse has...

A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...

An artist is painting a sunrise at sea. After a few finishing touches he stands back and admires the painting. The sun immediately commences to rise....