Most Viewed From Edison Studios

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...

Genre: Drama

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Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viola Dana

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

Genre: Fantasy

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Jack must prove himself before Beatrice's father will allow him to continue seeing his daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Brower

A fellow in a wide-brimmed hat, with a willowy stick for a rod and a baited hook, sits down on a plank hanging over a bridge above a stream. He...

Genre: Comedy

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“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...

Genre: Documentary

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“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Rastus

A Victorian couple dancing.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James T. Kelley

Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

Genre: Comedy

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“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

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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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Manley

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...

Genre: Documentary

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A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marc McDermott

Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace leads to tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bigelow Cooper

Not "as in a looking glass" but "as in his own portrait" in a dream does Paul Le Grand, the famous artist, see the lines of dissipation come, one by...

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Cast: Marc McDermott

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: William Sorelle

Well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Gilton live next door to a large family, the Biltons, that struggles to make ends meet. Despite their desire to be friendly,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Wadsworth

When a group of diners boards a carriage, one man is left behind and chases after them on foot.

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

Genre: Comedy

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We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Gladys Hulette