Most Viewed From Edison Studios

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

Genre: Horror

Cast: Augustus Phillips

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Mrs. Robert L. Thomas

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gilbert M. Anderson

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

Genre: Music

Cast: William K.L. Dickson

"Showing the wind-up of a political discussion. Dramatis personae: A Democrat, a Republican, a Bar Maid, and a Policeman."

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Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Caroline Rankin

Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.

Genre: Documentary

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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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Manley

Lee Martin, one of the cowboy stars in 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West', rides a bronco as a crowd looks on. While the horse is trying to throw Martin off...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lee Martin

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Vivian Vaughan

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

Genre: Comedy

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The famous show makes a parade.

Genre: Western

Cast: Buffalo Bill Cody

The famous show makes a parade.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Buffalo Bill Cody

The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete".

Genre: Comedy

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From Edison films catalog: Taken during the Klondike excitement. The streets are crowded with miners buying outfits and supplies. Mule trains,...

Genre: Documentary

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They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Genre: Drama

Cast: May Irwin

A certain professor of chemistry discovers two substances that, combined, make it possible to contravene the laws of gravity, a discovery that will...

Genre: Adventure

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Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Annabelle Moore

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carmencita

An entry from Raoul Barre's Animated Grouch Chaser series

Genre: Animation

Cast: Andy Clark