Edison Studios Movies

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

Parade footage.

The scene opens showing Reuben and his best girl looking for a quiet place to spoon. A photographer enters and suggests taking their pictures.

The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses.

A daredevil rides his bicycle down a ramp and attempts to land in a pool of water as a crowd of spectators watches.

The story of this film begins with the ominous day on which Lord Bellomont gave William Kidd a commission to rid the seas of pirates. Instead of compl...

Justus Morrow, a young Englishman of family and some wealth, went to Alaska to make his fortune ...

Pirate melodrama.

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards ar...

In [Admiral] Dewey land parade.

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 m...

A Dutch romance. Hulda and Heintz are bashful, giggling lovers, hut their spooning opportunities are few, as well as being forbidden. One day they get...

A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are passing along the stands and making their purchases of fi...

San Diego Beach, Hotel del Coronado. A pug dog, several terriers and water spaniels and a great St. Bernard are dashing into the water, retrieving sti...

For years, William West has been living in a little house owned by the railroad. He has never paid rent. One day, railroad employee. George Lessey is...

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once t...

The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways. Su...

Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything they...

Showing Central Park in the background.

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down th...