Edwin S. Porter Movies
- 1904
Buster Brown and the Dude
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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...
- 1903
The Extra Turn
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This scene opens with a view of a stage setting and private box. After Miss Dolly Lightfoot has finished a clever dance, a card is placed upon the...
- 1901
Photographing a Country Couple
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The scene opens showing Reuben and his best girl looking for a quiet place to spoon. A photographer enters and suggests taking their pictures.
- 1903
Street Car Chivalry
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Men on the streetcar offer their seats to pretty women, but not to an ugly woman.
- 1905
The Boarding School Girls
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The Young Ladies From Miss Knapp's Select School Have An Outing At Coney Island, N.Y.
- 1903
The Messenger Boy's Mistake
The Messenger Boy's Mistake4.21903HD
"Cholly" wishes to call on his best girl and sends her a large bouquet. To find out if the girl really loves him, he sends a note with the messenger...
- 1900
Ching Ling Foo Outdone
Ching Ling Foo Outdone4.31900HD
The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever...
- 1901
The Finish of Bridget McKeen
The Finish of Bridget McKeen5.91901HD
The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.
- 1905
Scenes and Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, N. H.
Scenes and Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, N. H.41905HD
If ever a film was in need of some narration this was it. Screened in four parts, lasting a total of approximately twelve minutes, it shows a bunch...
- 1900
Uncle Josh's Nightmare
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Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing...
- 1902
Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)
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Third part in Edison’s “Martinique” trilogy. It shows the shower of ashes and cinders falling upon the stricken city, the boiling...
- 1905
The Burglar's Slide for Life
The Burglar's Slide for Life4.51905HD
A burglar escapes from the apartment he's robbing by sliding down the clothesline, but in the end he's caught by the family dog.
- 1901
The Tramp's Unexpected Skate
The Tramp's Unexpected Skate41901HD
Shows a tramp asleep. Two mischievous boys appear on roller skates. One removes his skates and they strap them to the feet of "Weary Willie." They...
- 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...
- 1903
New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market
New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market51903HD
A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are passing along the stands and making their purchases of...
- 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...
- 1907
Jack the Kisser
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An energetic man steals kisses from passing ladies, until bystanders give chase.
- 1904
Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.
Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.41904HD
With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes...
- 1903
The Unappreciated Joke
The Unappreciated Joke4.51903HD
Scene, interior of a street-car. A stout man enters and sits down alongside of a friend and proceeds to read a comic paper. He shows a joke in the...
- 1901
Sampson-Schley Controversy
Sampson-Schley Controversy3.51901HD
This subject is in three scenes, showing beautiful dissolving effects. Scene 3. The Man Behind that Teacup shows Admiral Sampson the centre of...