Edwin S. Porter Movies
- 1904
Buster Brown and the Dude
Buster Brown and the Dude3.81904HD
Scene II of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a millinery store in the shopping district, and Mrs. Brown with a lady friend, admiring the hats displayed...
- 1904
A Rube Couple at a County Fair
A Rube Couple at a County Fair41904HD
The title of this early US film is something of a con really. Another rube couple had appeared in an entertaining movie set at Coney Island the...
- 1902
The Burlesque Suicide
The Burlesque Suicide31902HD
A dissipated looking man is seated at a table with a decanter of whiskey and a glass beside him. A large revolver is on the opposite side of the...
- 1904
Photographing a Female Crook
Photographing a Female Crook41904HD
Directed by Edwin S. Porter and/or Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
- 1904
Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige
Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige5.51904HD
Scene I of the Buster Brown Series. The opening scene shows Bridget asleep at the kitchen-table, and Buster enters on tip-toe. After tying her apron...
- 1908
Cupid’s Pranks
Cupid’s Pranks3.61908HD
After receiving a scolding for falling asleep on the job, Cupid is sent out in search of potential lovers to unite. While flying over a city, he...
- 1907
Laughing Gas
Laughing Gas51907HD
A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...
- 1901
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog4.51901HD
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...
- 1910
His Mother's Thanksgiving
His Mother's Thanksgiving4.51910HD
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...
- 1903
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island4.81903HD
The first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase...
- 1902
Babies Rolling Eggs
Babies Rolling Eggs41902HD
The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House...
- 1903
Buster's Joke on Papa (II)
Buster's Joke on Papa (II)31903HD
Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his...
- 1900
The Mystic Swing
The Mystic Swing4.5451900HD
The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady...
- 1906
How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game51906HD
An office boy plays hooky from work so he can watch a ballgame perched high atop a telephone pole. Includes footage of an actual baseball game as if...
- 1901
A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition
A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition41901HD
The Pan-American Exposition is encircled by an especially constructed canal, which was put in for the purpose of allowing the tourist to view the...
- 1904
The Ex-Convict
The Ex-Convict5.31904HD
A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ailing daughter.
- 1903
Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City
Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City3.51903HD
There must have been millions of subjects for Edison's filmmakers to point there cameras at back in 1903 so why on earth they thought that the...
- 1904
Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls
Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls01904HD
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...
- 1902
Interrupted Bathers
Interrupted Bathers3.7861902HD
Three girls are taking a bath in a quiet, shady spot along a beautiful stream. Another young lady in bathing attire reclines on the bank. The latter...
- 1907
Cohen’s Fire Sale
Cohen’s Fire Sale3.81907HD
A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.