Edwin S. Porter Movies

The Proposal: The gentleman burglar walking with his lady love. They admire the grandeur and beauty of nature. He proposes and she accepts. She does...

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe,...

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...

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by...

An old maid is walking about the studio while the photographer is getting his camera ready. She first looks at a hanger, which immediately falls from...

Here we have recorded a very novel scene, the camera having been placed in the basket of the captive balloon at the Pan-American Exposition...

A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.

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...

A fire has swept through Durland's Riding Academy in Manhattan. The fire has mostly died down, but firefighters are still at the scene, hosing down...

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

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's...

A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.

Shows a bedroom and a man asleep in bed. A burglar cautiously raises the window, climbs in, and proceeds to go through the man's clothes...

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

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

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

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...

The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House...

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