Edwin S. Porter

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they get on board, and they enjoy the sights ...

“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 ...

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 first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase…

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does ...

A view of Riker’s Island and its landfill, filmed from a passing boat on 9 May 1903. While heavy steam powered construction equipment ...

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 ...

It seems as if there was no subject so mundane or seedy that it was considered unworthy of filming by Edison and his contemporaries at the turn ...

A fine picture of the celebrated “White Wings” or street-cleaning department of one district of Greater New York, showing over 350 ...

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

The “Patrol” is seen chasing a row-boat containing river pirates. The pirates are pulling at the oars with all their strength, but a ...

Porter’s sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the ...

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

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 ...

Scene Bowery. Young woman drops her handkerchief while passing a Rube. He picks it up and gives it to her. She induces him to go into a side door ...

Porter’s sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic ...

A businessman makes a luncheon appointment with a young lady, but finds that his wife disapproves of the arrangement.

This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day’s work of cleaning up the grounds of the Charleston Exposition, taking their ...

The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: “Over 40,000 women and children passed through the ...

A baker’s assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the ...

A despondent-looking man sits behind a table that holds a drink and a gun. He hesitates, thinks things over, starts to take a drink, and then ...

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

Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.

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 ...

The public throughout the world is acquainted with the sensational capture of the Biddle Brothers and Mrs. Soffel, who, through the aid of Mrs. ...