Edwin S. Porter Movies

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...

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once...

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

A burglar escapes from the apartment he's robbing by sliding down the clothesline, but in the end he's caught by the family dog.

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...

This commercial traveler has evidently had a wet day judging from the strange things he sees at his hotel. The hall boy shows him to his room, puts...

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

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

Two lifeguards rescue a female bather after faltering and sinking while swimming.

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

An over-the-hill American tourist has a terrible time on his European "rest cure" vacation.

The Young Ladies From Miss Knapp's Select School Have An Outing At Coney Island, N.Y.

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

A sudden gust of wind sweeps Auntie's bonnet from her head, and she, in attempting to regain it, becomes overbalanced and falls over the stone-wall,...

The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever...

The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.

It seems Edison made a ton of these panorama films back in '03. They probably rented a boat for a couple of days, packed sandwiches and beer and...

An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they board, and later they enjoy the sights from...

Third part in Edison’s “Martinique” trilogy. It shows the shower of ashes and cinders falling upon the stricken city, the boiling...

The first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase...