Edison Studios Movies
- 1903
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery7.0081903HD
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...
- 1910
Frankenstein
Frankenstein6.0461910HD
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...
- 1893
Blacksmithing Scene
Blacksmithing Scene5.5321893HD
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
- 1894
Carmencita
Carmencita5.21894HD
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...
- 1896
The Kiss
The Kiss5.211896HD
They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.
- 1895
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance5.8981895HD
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...
- 1890
Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 14.91890HD
Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows...
- 1894
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley5.91894HD
Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West...
- 1903
Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman6.1161903HD
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...
- 1895
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots6.1881895HD
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...
- 1917
Barnaby Lee
Barnaby Lee01917HD
Pirate melodrama.
- 1903
Electrocuting an Elephant
Electrocuting an Elephant2.7471903HD
This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.
- 1915
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair01915HD
"Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15...
- 1918
The Unbeliever
The Unbeliever6.11918HD
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his...
- 1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Dickson Experimental Sound Film6.251894HD
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.
- 1897
Crissie Sheridan
Crissie Sheridan4.81897HD
A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and...
- 1891
Dickson Greeting
Dickson Greeting4.81891HD
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...
- 1898
Little Mischief
Little Mischief3.21898HD
Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...
- 1891
Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete4.41891HD
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
- 1894
Bucking Broncho
Bucking Broncho4.31894HD
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...