Edison Studios Movies

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are h...

A soldier is promoted for bravery, marries a Red Cross girl, and goes home to his parents.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson to receive a we...

“By the Leanders. The dress of one consists of a pair of wings and a bow and arrow; the other represents a fairy. Bathers in all stages of dress and u...

After reading a newspaper article regarding old Tightwad's rise in the world, Bill and Jim hit upon a plan to get some of Tightwad's easy money by hol...

The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target an...

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over this celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of g...

The stubborn resistance of the Boers is shown by the activity and persistency with which they fire the two large field pieces immediately in the foreg...

A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and...

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 a...

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 th...

Bob and Dick both secretly love Dorothy but are too timid to propose. Bob rehearses his proposal to Dorothy, accidentally proposing to the maid, who a...

Seagulls flock around a moving ferryboat in San Francisco Bay in this 2-shot short film.

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 previo...

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 Sta...

Sequel to Rats Killing from 1894

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

A most excellent picture of the grim old fortress which stands at the entrance of Havana Harbor...

Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things...

When Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artillery came to Tampa, Fla., it meant business, and the picture shows it. One by one the big artillery-men pass by in...