Edwin S. Porter Movies

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...

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...

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

The statue of Niobe comes to life through the dream of a hen-pecked old man.

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...

A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

The severe cold of the winter of 1903-04 allowed the rapids of Niagara Falls to freeze over, allowing the brave tourists to enter the chasm and cross...

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals...

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

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...

A great feature of the Pan-American Exposition, as unanimously conceded by all visitors, was the electric illumination of the Exposition grounds at...

Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet. As man and maid have done before, they...

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

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