Edison Studios Scannán Coitianta

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...

Seánra: Crime

Caitheadh: Gilbert M. Anderson

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

Seánra: Drama

Caitheadh: Charles Kayser

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Seánra: Drama

Caitheadh: May Irwin

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Annabelle Moore

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Hair Coat

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

Seánra: Music

Caitheadh: William K.L. Dickson

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Seánra: Animation

Caitheadh: J. Stuart Blackton

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

Seánra: History

Caitheadh: Mrs. Robert L. Thomas

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

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Carl Goliath

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife...

Seánra:

Caitheadh: Hadji Cheriff

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Carmencita

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

Seánra: Horror

Caitheadh: Augustus Phillips

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

Seánra: Action

Caitheadh: Vivian Vaughan

Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: John Ott

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

Seánra: Comedy

Caitheadh: Edward Boulden

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Annie Oakley

“A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the...

Seánra: Comedy

Caitheadh:

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

Seánra: Fantasy

Caitheadh: John P. Brawn

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: William K.L. Dickson

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

Seánra: Documentary

Caitheadh: Fred Ott