Edison Studios Movies
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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
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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 1894
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze4.91894HD
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion...
- 1894
Buffalo Dance
Buffalo Dance4.51894HD
Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...
- 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.
- 1900
The Enchanted Drawing
The Enchanted Drawing6.4341900HD
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
- 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.
- 1910
The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph
The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph4.71910HD
It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she...
- 1901
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City5.31901HD
A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...
- 1906
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend6.41906HD
A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...
- 1908
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest5.61908HD
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...