Edwin S. Porter Movies

This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble...

A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.

Shows a suburbanite asleep in bed. He discovers he has overslept himself, and jumps out of bed.

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing...

Scene I of the Buster Brown Series. The opening scene shows Bridget asleep at the kitchen-table, and Buster enters on tip-toe. After tying her apron...

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...

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

A tramp gets involved in mischief on a train.

A true-crime short of a bank robbery and chase and capture.

A country girl leaving home for the seminary.

A most perfect picture of the Pan-American Exposition buildings, including the Electric Tower and Temple of Music, as they appear at night.

The rancher whom Tom works for has entrusted Tom with a bag of gold to take to the bank. But on arriving at the bank, Tom finds that it is closed for...

Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a...

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

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

Casey enters a subway station nearby City Hall and walks down the tunnel. He lights a fuse to set off a blast and runs away. Thinking the fuse has...

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

A few people swimming.

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

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 dough into...