Edwin S. Porter Movies
- 1904
Photographing a Female Crook
Photographing a Female Crook41904HD
Directed by Edwin S. Porter and/or Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
- 1900
An Animated Luncheon
An Animated Luncheon51900HD
The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled...
- 1904
Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business
Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business51904HD
Scene V of the Buster Brown Series. Shows an Italian balloon vendor near the "Flat-iron" Building, New York City. Mrs. Brown and Buster appear on the...
- 1903
New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market
New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market51903HD
A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are passing along the stands and making their purchases of...
- 1903
Street Car Chivalry
Street Car Chivalry41903HD
Men on the streetcar offer their seats to pretty women, but not to an ugly woman.
- 1902
Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)
Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)01902HD
Third part in Edison’s “Martinique” trilogy. It shows the shower of ashes and cinders falling upon the stricken city, the boiling...
- 1905
The Burglar's Slide for Life
The Burglar's Slide for Life4.51905HD
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.
- 1901
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog4.51901HD
This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of...
- 1905
The Boarding School Girls
The Boarding School Girls61905HD
The Young Ladies From Miss Knapp's Select School Have An Outing At Coney Island, N.Y.
- 1909
On the Western Frontier
On the Western Frontier01909HD
Among the tall trees and mountains of the Far West, a father, son and daughter dwell peacefully in their mountain cabin, close to nature, seldom...
- 1901
The Reversible Divers
The Reversible Divers51901HD
A few people swimming.
- 1903
The Unappreciated Joke
The Unappreciated Joke4.51903HD
Scene, interior of a street-car. A stout man enters and sits down alongside of a friend and proceeds to read a comic paper. He shows a joke in 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
Pan-American Exposition by Night
Pan-American Exposition by Night5.81901HD
A great feature of the Pan-American Exposition, as unanimously conceded by all visitors, was the electric illumination of the Exposition grounds at...
- 1903
Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City
Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City3.51903HD
There must have been millions of subjects for Edison's filmmakers to point there cameras at back in 1903 so why on earth they thought that the...
- 1900
Uncle Josh's Nightmare
Uncle Josh's Nightmare41900HD
Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing...
- 1904
Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride
Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride3.71904HD
A tramp gets involved in mischief on a train.
- 1900
The Mystic Swing
The Mystic Swing4.5451900HD
The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady...
- 1905
On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride
On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride51905HD
Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full...
- 1902
The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship4.71902HD
A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...