Edison Studios Movies

  • 1903
    The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery

    7.0031903HD

    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...

    The Great Train Robbery
  • 1904
    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    01904HD

    Klingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail. Evil summons Kundry. Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal. Crowning of Amfortas. Wounding of...

    Parsifal
  • 1910
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    6.0231910HD

    Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

    Frankenstein
  • 1905
    The Night Before Christmas

    The Night Before Christmas

    The Night Before Christmas

    6.11905HD

    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.

    The Night Before Christmas
  • 1907
    A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

    A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

    A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

    6.51907HD

    A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.

    A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
  • 1904
    Scarecrow Pump

    Scarecrow Pump

    Scarecrow Pump

    4.61904HD

    A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a...

    Scarecrow Pump
  • 1905
    How Jones Lost His Roll

    How Jones Lost His Roll

    How Jones Lost His Roll

    51905HD

    Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to...

    How Jones Lost His Roll
  • 1903
    Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River

    Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River

    Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River

    5.21903HD

    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...

    Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River
  • 1904
    Dog Factory

    Dog Factory

    Dog Factory

    4.51904HD

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

    Dog Factory
  • 1910
    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    6.41910HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

    A Christmas Carol
  • 1895
    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

    6.2411895HD

    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...

    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
  • 1894
    Carmencita

    Carmencita

    Carmencita

    5.1931894HD

    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...

    Carmencita
  • 1903
    Princeton and Yale Football Game

    Princeton and Yale Football Game

    Princeton and Yale Football Game

    51903HD

    First is shown a fine panoramic view of the grandstand at the Yale field, showing the enormous gathering of football enthusiasts who have come from...

    Princeton and Yale Football Game
  • 1915
    The Portrait in the Attic

    The Portrait in the Attic

    The Portrait in the Attic

    01915HD

    Viola Dana stars as the child of a widower who marries again, much to her dismay. Despite all attempts by the adults, the child refuses to accept her...

    The Portrait in the Attic
  • 1915
    Vanity Fair

    Vanity Fair

    Vanity Fair

    01915HD

    "Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15...

    Vanity Fair
  • 1891
    Newark Athlete

    Newark Athlete

    Newark Athlete

    4.4411891HD

    Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

    Newark Athlete
  • 1903
    Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island

    Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island

    Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island

    5.8571903HD

    Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, disembarking at Ellis Island, N. Y. A most interesting and typical scene.

    Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
  • 1906
    A Winter Straw Ride

    A Winter Straw Ride

    A Winter Straw Ride

    4.81906HD

    Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

    A Winter Straw Ride
  • 1901
    The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken

    The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken

    The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken

    4.4441901HD

    An old maid is walking about the studio while the photographer is getting his camera ready. She first looks at a hanger, which immediately falls from...

    The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken
  • 1897
    Seminary Girls

    Seminary Girls

    Seminary Girls

    4.8851897HD

    From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen...

    Seminary Girls