Edwin S. Porter Movies

During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washington while he will be staying at her father's...

A female impersonator giggles and flirts. By the following decade, many female impersonators would be shown doing their acts on the stage and in the...

Shows a band of mischievous cowboys being chased by Indians. A number of shots are fired at the pursuing Indians by the cow punchers, and the...

It seems as if there was no subject so mundane or seedy that it was considered unworthy of filming by Edison and his contemporaries at the turn of...

A burglar escapes from the apartment he's robbing by sliding down the clothesline, but in the end he's caught by the family dog.

Scene I of the Buster Brown Series. The opening scene shows Bridget asleep at the kitchen-table, and Buster enters on tip-toe. After tying her apron...

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

An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.

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

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

Vesta Victoria Sings 'Poor John'.

With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes...

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

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...

A fine picture of the celebrated "White Wings" or street-cleaning department of one district of Greater New York, showing over 350 men in line, and...

Men on the streetcar offer their seats to pretty women, but not to an ugly woman.

A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man.

A silent comedy drama film directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter

Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.

First, the eye is introduced to the old mill itself, with a gay betrothal party in progress, and laughter and merriment on all sides. Suddenly the...