Edwin S. Porter Movies

A couple who have known each other all of their lives are shown together at different stages of life. First, as children, they play together...

The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever...

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...

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....

Scene IV of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a kitchen and Bridget busy making crullers. Buster enters and begs Bridget to give him one. Bridget...

A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace.

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

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

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...

A view of Riker's Island and its landfill, filmed from a passing boat on 9 May 1903. While heavy steam powered construction equipment construct a sea...

Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his...

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...

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...

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

Directed by Edwin S. Porter and/or Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack....

This subject is in three scenes, showing beautiful dissolving effects. Scene 3. The Man Behind that Teacup shows Admiral Sampson the centre of...

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

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...

The subject of this documentary is an orphan asylum for infants. The beginning portion includes the dining facilities for the children. A woman...