Edwin S. Porter Movies

When a group of diners boards a carriage, one man is left behind and chases after them on foot.

A policeman has breakfast with his wife and children, and then prepares for the day's work. While on his beat, he finds and helps a lost child....

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from...

With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes...

A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest.

The statue of Niobe comes to life through the dream of a hen-pecked old man.

A true-crime short of a bank robbery and chase and capture.

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

Shows a suburbanite asleep in bed. He discovers he has overslept himself, and jumps out of bed.

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...

This commercial traveler has evidently had a wet day judging from the strange things he sees at his hotel. The hall boy shows him to his room, puts...

A magnificent picture of this boat making a run and starting the water from a least a dozen nozzles at once...

Bella Donna ( Pauline Frederick ) a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine ( Thomas Holding ) into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of...

This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day's work of cleaning up the grounds of the Charleston Exposition, taking their positions...

Scene II of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a millinery store in the shopping district, and Mrs. Brown with a lady friend, admiring the hats displayed...

Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detective himself.

A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.

One at a time, we meet eight members of the Dam family.

A successful artist and a struggling one both love the same woman; she chooses the poor one but as the years roll on and other choices she makes and...

The title of this early US film is something of a con really. Another rube couple had appeared in an entertaining movie set at Coney Island the...