Edwin S. Porter Movies
- 1901
Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King
Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King3.91901HD
Our presidential hunter runs across the landscape and falls down in the snow, gets up with his rifle, and gazes upward at a treed animal which isn't...
- 1904
Fighting the Flames, Dreamland
Fighting the Flames, Dreamland51904HD
Dreamland was a theme park at Coney Island, Brooklyn that opened in 1904. One of its major attractions was the stunt spectacular "Fighting the...
- 1904
Buster Brown and the Dude
Buster Brown and the Dude3.81904HD
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
Electrocuting an Elephant
Electrocuting an Elephant2.6111903HD
This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.
- 1907
Poor John
Poor John41907HD
Vesta Victoria Sings 'Poor John'.
- 1905
The Life of an American Policeman
The Life of an American Policeman41905HD
A policeman has breakfast with his wife and children, and then prepares for the day's work. While on his beat, he finds and helps a lost child....
- 1908
Miss Sherlock Holmes
Miss Sherlock Holmes101908HD
Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.
- 1901
Love by the Light of the Moon
Love by the Light of the Moon4.81901HD
It shows a garden wall in the background. Two lovers appear and lean over the garden gate where the moon throws a shadow upon the ground. The young...
- 1901
The Martyred Presidents
The Martyred Presidents2.91901HD
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly...
- 1903
New York City Dumping Wharf
New York City Dumping Wharf31903HD
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 of...
- 1914
Tess of the Storm Country
Tess of the Storm Country5.41914HD
A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.
- 1903
Panorama of Blackwell's Island
Panorama of Blackwell's Island61903HD
Panorama of Blackwell's Island
- 1914
The Crucible
The Crucible01914HD
Jean finds the boyish manner in which her late father raised her, is now causing quite a lot of trouble for her, and she ends up in a reformatory....
- 1903
The Gay Shoe Clerk
The Gay Shoe Clerk5.51903HD
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.
- 1901
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce4.41901HD
The scene opens in the bedroom of Mr. Nation, husband of the famous Carrie Nation, the “Kansas Saloon Smasher”. Mr. Nation suddenly...
- 1904
Buster's Dog to the Rescue
Buster's Dog to the Rescue4.21904HD
Scene IV of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a kitchen and Bridget busy making crullers. Buster enters and begs Bridget to give him one. Bridget...
- 1909
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel2.81909HD
One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
- 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...
- 1906
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen4.81906HD
Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack....
- 1906
Getting Evidence
Getting Evidence51906HD
A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the...