Edwin S. Porter
1902
Charleston Chain-Gang
This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day's work of cleaning up the grou…
1902
How They Do Things on the Bowery
Scene Bowery. Young woman drops her handkerchief while passing a Rube. He picks it up and…
1902
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk kan verwijzen naar: Films: Jack and the Beanstalk (1917), een film…
1902
The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp…
1903
Electrocuting an Elephant
Electrocuting an Elephant is een Amerikaanse film uit 1903. De film werd gemaakt door de E…
Fireboat 'New Yorker' in Action
A magnificent picture of this boat making a run and starting the water from a least a doze…
1903
Life of an American Fireman
Porters sequentiële continuïteitsmontage verbindt verschillende shots en vormt een verhaal…
1903
New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market
A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people a…
New York City Dumping Wharf
It seems as if there was no subject so mundane or seedy that it was considered unworthy of…
New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates
The "Patrol" is seen chasing a row-boat containing river pirates. The pirates are pulling…
Panorama of Blackwell's Island
Panorama of Blackwell's Island
Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.
A view of Riker's Island and its landfill, filmed from a passing boat on 9 May 1903. While…
Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
It seems Edison made a ton of these panorama films back in '03. They probably rented a boa…
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
De eerste scène toont een plattelandsstel dat Steeplechase Park betreedt. Ze vermaken zich…
1903
Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City
There must have been millions of subjects for Edison's filmmakers to point there cameras a…
1903
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery kan verwijzen naar: The Great Train Robbery, een film uit 1903 G…
1903
The Messenger Boy's Mistake
"Cholly" wishes to call on his best girl and sends her a large bouquet. To find out if the…
1903
The Unappreciated Joke
The Unappreciated Joke is een Amerikaanse korte filmkomedie uit 1903, geregisseerd door Ed…
1903
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin kan verwijzen naar: Literatuur Oorspronkelijke titel van De hut van Oom…
1903
White Wings on Review
A fine picture of the celebrated "White Wings" or street-cleaning department of one distri…
1904
"Weary Willlie" Kisses the Bride
A tramp gets involved in mischief on a train.
A Rube Couple at a County Fair
The title of this early US film is something of a con really. Another rube couple had appe…
Capture of Yegg Bank Burglars
A true-crime short of a bank robbery and chase and capture.
1904
Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls
The severe cold of the winter of 1903-04 allowed the rapids of Niagara Falls to freeze ove…
1904
European Rest Cure
An over-the-hill American tourist has a terrible time on his European "rest cure" vacation…
Fighting the Flames, Dreamland
Korte documentaire: Dreamland was een themapark op Coney Island, Brooklyn dat in 1904 wer…
1904
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisem…
Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships
A location actuality filmed in Philadelphia (May 27–28, 1904) documenting the Inter-Colleg…
1904
Japanese Acrobats
A Japanese juggler performs some marvelous juggling feats with a boy. Lying on his back on…
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
Buster Brown-maker R.F. Outcault schetst zijn creatie. Onderdeel van de Buster Brown-serie…
1904
Scarecrow Pump
A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the hous…
Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum
The subject of this documentary is an orphan asylum for infants. The beginning portion inc…
1904
The Ex-Convict
A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ail…
1904
The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide
A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied…
1905
Coney Island at Night
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vant…