Edwin S. Porter Movies

Scene, interior of a street-car. A stout man enters and sits down alongside of a friend and proceeds to read a comic paper. He shows a joke in the...

The Proposal: The gentleman burglar walking with his lady love. They admire the grandeur and beauty of nature. He proposes and she accepts. She does...

Dreamland was a theme park at Coney Island, Brooklyn that opened in 1904. One of its major attractions was the stunt spectacular "Fighting the...

The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House...

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...

A couple who have known each other all of their lives are shown together at different stages of life. First, as children, they play together...

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

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

Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.

Casey enters a subway station nearby City Hall and walks down the tunnel. He lights a fuse to set off a blast and runs away. Thinking the fuse has...

Directed by Edwin S. Porter.

An artist is painting a sunrise at sea. After a few finishing touches he stands back and admires the painting. The sun immediately commences to rise....

A dissipated looking man is seated at a table with a decanter of whiskey and a glass beside him. A large revolver is on the opposite side of the...

Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detective himself.

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...

A true-crime short of a bank robbery and chase and capture.

Film shot with the help of the New York City (Metropolitan) Police.

A few people swimming.

An energetic man steals kisses from passing ladies, until bystanders give chase.

A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.