Edwin S. Porter Movies

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

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

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

After receiving a scolding for falling asleep on the job, Cupid is sent out in search of potential lovers to unite. While flying over a city, he...

An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they board, and later they enjoy the sights from...

Our presidential hunter runs across the landscape and falls down in the snow, gets up with his rifle, and gazes upward at a treed animal which isn't...

Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not...

A most perfect picture of the Pan-American Exposition buildings, including the Electric Tower and Temple of Music, as they appear at night.

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

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a...

Chollie and George compete for a young woman's affection, using trickery and sabotage.

A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.

“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In...

A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.

This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble...

The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady...

Shows a suburbanite asleep in bed. He discovers he has overslept himself, and jumps out of bed.

Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his...