Edison Studios Movies

From one angle, a line of soldiers are shown walking up the gangplank.

"Shows the beach at Long Branch, N.J. immediately after a heavy storm. The breaking waves dash over a row of spiles, throwing a spray high into the ai...

An early short with a self-explanatory title.

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

A Romeo and Juliet story of the rivalry between two miners, one rich and one poor, whose son and daughter overcome their respective fathers' oppositio...

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...

The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane...

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

Street scene of LA in 1898.

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the r...

This twenty-five second film is from Edison's "Southern Pacific Company" series. What we see is a Japanese ship as it is floating into a harbor in Sou...

This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river...

A view of Riker's Island and its landfill, filmed from a passing boat on 9 May 1903. While heavy steam powered construction equipment construct a sea...

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...

The plot and setting is actually a bit like Keaton's The Three Ages will be in 1923. But less sophisticated: The Roman Emperor Mulius Caesar borrows m...

Scene V of the Buster Brown Series. Shows an Italian balloon vendor near the "Flat-iron" Building, New York City. Mrs. Brown and Buster appear on the...

The first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase...

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an explanati...