Edison Studios Movies

A very lifelike picture of the famous New York politician and Tammany Hall boss. This picture was taken on Sunday morning [sic] as he was leaving the...

A herd of long-horn cattle being driven through the Chicago stock yard gates to the slaughter house, where 280 of the animals are killed every hour of...

Early Edison film.

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 con...

It seems Edison made a ton of these panorama films back in '03. They probably rented a boat for a couple of days, packed sandwiches and beer and float...

New York City police catch thieves and stop runaway horses.

A boy and his dog go hunting.

The large war vessel slides slowly down the ways, stern first. Rowboats in the foreground rock violently in the swell. One boat upsets.

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and fee...

At the christening and launching, our cameras occupied a most enviable position, being within ten feet of Miss Alice Roosevelt and Prince Henry at the...

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

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 do...

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made...

A 360 degree view of Haleakala.

Edison short.

Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of the trust company where both young men work.

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...

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

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

A nursemaid takes an infant outdoors, where the child is stolen by Romani "gypsies" in a horse-drawn covered wagon.