Edison Studios Popular Movie

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gilbert M. Anderson

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Ott

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Annabelle Moore

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Augustus Phillips

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Kayser

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William K.L. Dickson

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 second motion...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Ott

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Vivian Vaughan

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Juan A. Caicedo

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1". Once again, an Edison company worker moves around in front of the motion...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: G. Sacco Albanese

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Mrs. Robert L. Thomas

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Marc McDermott

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: William K.L. Dickson

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Genre: Drama

Cast: May Irwin

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eugen Sandow

“The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit.” (Edison film catalog)

Genre: Romance

Cast:

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carmencita

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: John P. Brawn