Most Viewed From Edison Studios

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Genre: Animation

Cast: J. Stuart Blackton

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carl Goliath

When a burglar dressed as Santa Claus steals a family's Christmas presents, amateur detective Octavius sets out to recover the loot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry O'Moore

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:

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: A.C. Abadie

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 glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Welton

A poor young boy goes on a field trip and dreams of escaping to a land beyond the sunset.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Martin Fuller

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