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1917
Kidnapped
Kidnapped6.00 1917 HD
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the...
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1903
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery7.02 1903 HD
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...
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1895
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance5.89 1895 HD
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...
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1900
The Enchanted Drawing
The Enchanted Drawing6.46 1900 HD
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
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1894
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)4.81 1894 HD
The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete", which depicts a boxer with a...
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1903
Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman6.10 1903 HD
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...
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1894
Buffalo Dance
Buffalo Dance4.60 1894 HD
Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...
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1910
Frankenstein
Frankenstein6.04 1910 HD
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...
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1894
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley5.98 1894 HD
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...
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1893
Blacksmithing Scene
Blacksmithing Scene5.56 1893 HD
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.
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1897
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory5.10 1897 HD
“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...
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1901
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City5.40 1901 HD
A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the...
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1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Dickson Experimental Sound Film6.27 1894 HD
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.
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1894
Sioux Ghost Dance
Sioux Ghost Dance4.52 1894 HD
From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war...
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1895
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots6.20 1895 HD
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...
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1893
The Barber Shop
The Barber Shop4.92 1893 HD
“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both...
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1896
Feeding the Doves
Feeding the Doves5.10 1896 HD
A woman and a young girl each carry containers of bird feed, and they toss occasional handfuls to the chickens and doves in the farmyard. Most of the...
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1890
Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 14.87 1890 HD
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...
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1894
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Butterfly Dance5.41 1894 HD
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...
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1892
A Hand Shake
A Hand Shake3.50 1892 HD
William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.