Edwin S. Porter Movies
- 1904
Western Stage Coach Hold Up
Western Stage Coach Hold Up01904HD
A band of robbers are playing cards in the foreground of the picture. Suddenly one of the gang who has been on the lookout for the stage coach rides...
- 1915
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper51915HD
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
- 1910
The Attack on the Mill
The Attack on the Mill41910HD
First, the eye is introduced to the old mill itself, with a gay betrothal party in progress, and laughter and merriment on all sides. Suddenly the...
- 1907
Laughing Gas
Laughing Gas51907HD
A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...
- 1901
The Artist's Dilemma
The Artist's Dilemma5.51901HD
The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the...
- 1904
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns51904HD
A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...
- 1901
The Martyred Presidents
The Martyred Presidents2.91901HD
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly...
- 1905
The White Caps
The White Caps51905HD
Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...
- 1906
Three American Beauties
Three American Beauties61906HD
In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a...
- 1904
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden61904HD
Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips. Marshall continues with various feminine...
- 1904
Scarecrow Pump
Scarecrow Pump4.61904HD
A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a...
- 1914
The Crucible
The Crucible01914HD
Jean finds the boyish manner in which her late father raised her, is now causing quite a lot of trouble for her, and she ends up in a reformatory....
- 1903
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin4.91903HD
Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not...
- 1910
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland6.31910HD
Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter, the film starred Gladys Hulette as Alice. Being a silent film, naturally...
- 1904
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige31904HD
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.
- 1906
A Winter Straw Ride
A Winter Straw Ride4.81906HD
Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...
- 1905
The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog
The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog5.11905HD
A portrait of the Dam family.
- 1906
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen4.81906HD
Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack....
- 1903
Buster's Joke on Papa (II)
Buster's Joke on Papa (II)31903HD
Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his...
- 1914
Hearts Adrift
Hearts Adrift01914HD
A lost film. A man and a woman are shipwrecked on a desert island. It doesn't take long before they fall in love and, figuring that they would never...