Edwin S. Porter Movies

Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet. As man and maid have done before, they...

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...

Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips. Marshall continues with various feminine...

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

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...

A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.

A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter, the film starred Gladys Hulette as Alice. Being a silent film, naturally...

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...

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

Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.

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

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

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...

Renactment of a skirmish that was likely to have occurred in the Russo-Japanese War. Opens with an establishing scene entitled "A Japanese outpost on...

The subject of this documentary is an orphan asylum for infants. The beginning portion includes the dining facilities for the children. A woman...

A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.