Edison Studios Movies
- 1903
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery7.0121903HD
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...
- 1912
The Land Beyond the Sunset
The Land Beyond the Sunset6.3591912HD
A poor young boy goes on a field trip and dreams of escaping to a land beyond the sunset.
- 1910
Frankenstein
Frankenstein6.0241910HD
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...
- 1907
A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus6.51907HD
A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.
- 1891
Men Boxing
Men Boxing4.121891HD
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
- 1890
Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 14.9121890HD
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...
- 1906
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend6.3551906HD
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...
- 1894
Carmencita
Carmencita5.1931894HD
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...
- 1910
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland6.31910HD
Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter, the film starred Gladys Hulette as Alice. Being a silent film, naturally...
- 1901
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City5.3451901HD
A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...
- 1903
Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River
Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River5.21903HD
A beautiful panoramic view of lower New York from Barclay Street to Battery Park, showing a beautiful stereoscopic effect of the sky-scrapers in the...
- 1901
The Old Maid in the Horsecar
The Old Maid in the Horsecar31901HD
A female impersonator giggles and flirts. By the following decade, many female impersonators would be shown doing their acts on the stage and in the...
- 1894
Sioux Ghost Dance
Sioux Ghost Dance4.51894HD
From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war...
- 1912
A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
A Suffragette in Spite of Himself51912HD
A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.
- 1903
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island5.8571903HD
Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, disembarking at Ellis Island, N. Y. A most interesting and typical scene.
- 1910
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol6.41910HD
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...
- 1902
Burning of Durland's Riding Academy
Burning of Durland's Riding Academy51902HD
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...
- 1902
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk5.9141902HD
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....
- 1891
Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete4.4411891HD
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
- 1895
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots6.2411895HD
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...