Movies: Edison Studios
- 1903
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
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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 of the fleeing bandits....
- 1894
Carmencita (1894)
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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 States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster &...
- 1910
Frankenstein (1910)
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Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster....
- 1895
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
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In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left across an unadorned stage. Many of the prints wer...
- 1910
A Christmas Carol (1910)
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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge ...
- 1896
The Kiss (1896)
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They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time....
- 1894
Caicedo (with Pole) (1894)
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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....
- 1895
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
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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 it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a ...
- 1893
Blacksmithing Scene (1893)
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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....
- 1906
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
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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 established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular halluci...
- 1903
The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
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A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella....
- 1903
Life of an American Fireman (1903)
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Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning ho...
- 1894
Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
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In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in white trunks, is the aggressor; in black, Jack Cus...
- 1901
Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (1901)
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Our presidential hunter runs across the landscape and falls down in the snow, gets up with his rifle, and gazes upward at a treed animal which isn't in the camera's view. He fires a shot into the tree, then leaps on the ground to grab the fallen prey...
- 1897
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897)
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“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great inventor. The scene is an actual one, showing Mr. Edison in working dress engaged in an interesting...
- 1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
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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....
- 1894
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894)
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Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio....
- 1894
The Boxing Cats (1894)
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"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)...
- 1907
The 'Teddy' Bears (1907)
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A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother while hunting, an event which led to the popularization of the teddy bear. Goldilocks goes to sleep in t...
- 1893
The Barber Shop (1893)
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“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both laugh. Meantime the man in the chair is shaved and has his hair cut. Very funny.” (Edison's Latest Wonders, 189...