Edison Studios Movies

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.

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...

"Showing the gallant Admiral standing directly in front of the camera, life size, his head bare, graciously bidding his guests adieu. This was exhibit...

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

This picture shows the Canadian troops departing from Quebec for the war in Transvaal. The scene opens with the soldiers clad in campaign uniform, mar...

Edison released this as part of their "Northern Pacific Rainway" and "Alaska and Yellowstone National Park" series.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron...

Street scene of LA in 1898.

A view taken on the West Side drive in Central Park. Shows a continuous stream of handsome rigs and turnouts passing in both directions. Pedestrians w...

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are h...

A couple visiting New York City leave their hotel, and take a sight-seeing car to tour the city. They start with Grant's Tomb, and then go to Central...

Mary is as stage actress preparing for opening night. Her part calls for her to shoot a Union soldier being played by her beau. Unknown to Mary anothe...

Two carts, one with a boat on it, are being pushed out of a garage.

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...

The famous Madison Square Garden forms the background of this excellent picture. A number of very fine automobiles pass in this strip, coming close to...

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

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...

Looking for love in the tea garden