Edwin S. Porter

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

1982 Film

Life of an American Fireman

1903 Film

Jack and the Beanstalk

1902 Film

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Film

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Film

His Neighbor's Wife

1913 Film

A Heroine of '76

1911 Film

Life of an American Fireman

1903 Film

The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog

1905 Film

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

1908 Film

The Eternal City

1915 Film

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

1906 Film

The Little Train Robbery

1905 Film

Russia, the Land of Oppression

1910 Film

A Romance of the Rail

1903 Film

What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City

1901 Film

The Gay Shoe Clerk

1903 Film

Jack and the Beanstalk

1902 Film

The 'Teddy' Bears

1907 Film

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1903 Film

Uncle Josh's Nightmare

1900 Film

Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

1901 Film

Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show

1902 Film

Circular Panorama of Electric Tower

1901 Film

A Good Little Devil

1914 Film

Pan-American Exposition by Night

1901 Film

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

1901 Film

Trapeze Disrobing Act

1901 Film

The Martyred Presidents

1901 Film

Panorama of Esplanade by Night

1901 Film

The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken

1901 Film

Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog

1901 Film

Another Job for the Undertaker

1901 Film

The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2

1902 Film

The Ex-Convict

1904 Film

Fun in a Bakery Shop

1902 Film

Subub Surprises the Burglar

1903 Film

Rube and Mandy at Coney Island

1903 Film

European Rest Cure

1904 Film

Maniac Chase

1904 Film

Interrupted Bathers

1902 Film

Burning of Durland's Riding Academy

1902 Film

New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market

1903 Film

What Happened in the Tunnel

1903 Film

How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns

1904 Film

Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel

1900 Film

Coney Island at Night

1905 Film

The Night Before Christmas

1905 Film

A Dull Razor

1900 Film

An Animated Luncheon

1900 Film

The Magician

1900 Film

Ching Ling Foo Outdone

1900 Film

Faust and Marguerite

1900 Film

An Artist's Dream

1900 Film

The Tramp's Unexpected Skate

1901 Film

Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce

1901 Film

Kansas Saloon Smashers

1901 Film

Sampson-Schley Controversy

1901 Film

The Mystic Swing

1900 Film

The Unappreciated Joke

1903 Film

The Messenger Boy's Mistake

1903 Film

Rector's to Claremont

1904 Film

Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.

1903 Film

The Extra Turn

1903 Film

White Wings on Review

1903 Film

New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates

1903 Film

New York City Dumping Wharf

1903 Film

Fireboat 'New Yorker' in Action

1903 Film

Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City

1903 Film

Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride

1904 Film

A Rube Couple at a County Fair

1904 Film

The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide

1904 Film

Buster Makes Room for His Mama at the Bargain Counter

1904 Film

Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business

1904 Film

Buster's Dog to the Rescue

1904 Film

Scarecrow Pump

1904 Film

Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige

1904 Film

Buster Brown and the Dude

1904 Film

Scenes and Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, N. H.

1905 Film

The Miller’s Daughter

1905 Film

The White Caps

1905 Film

The Seven Ages

1905 Film

The Kleptomaniac

1905 Film

The Watermelon Patch

1905 Film

The Life of an American Policeman

1905 Film

Police Chasing Scorching Auto

1905 Film

How Jones Lost His Roll

1905 Film

The Burglar's Slide for Life

1905 Film

The Train Wreckers

1905 Film

Three American Beauties

1906 Film

Babies Rolling Eggs

1902 Film

Kathleen Mavourneen

1906 Film

A Winter Straw Ride

1906 Film

The Terrible Kids

1906 Film

Getting Evidence

1906 Film

Cohen’s Fire Sale

1907 Film

A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

1907 Film

The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love

1907 Film

The Rivals

1907 Film

College Chums

1907 Film

Laughing Gas

1907 Film

Tale the Autumn Leaves Told

1908 Film

Fireside Reminiscences

1908 Film

A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

1908 Film

Tess of the Storm Country

1914 Film

Charleston Chain-Gang

1902 Film

How They Do Things on the Bowery

1902 Film

Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum

1904 Film

The Old Maid in the Horsecar

1901 Film

Rock of Ages

1902 Film

Love by the Light of the Moon

1901 Film

The Lighthouse by the Sea

1911 Film

The Prisoner of Zenda

1913 Film

Parsifal

1904 Film

Dog Factory

1904 Film

Photographing a Female Crook

1904 Film

The Colored Stenographer

1909 Film

The Count of Monte Cristo

1913 Film

His Mother's Thanksgiving

1910 Film

Hearts Adrift

1914 Film

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1910 Film

How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game

1906 Film

The Artist's Dilemma

1901 Film

The Gay Shoe Clerk

1903 Film

Getting Evidence

1906 Film

How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game

1906 Film

Faust

1909 Film

Hansel and Gretel

1909 Film

Miss Sherlock Holmes

1908 Film

Sherlock Holmes, Jr.

1911 Film

The Finish of Bridget McKeen

1901 Film

Western Stage Coach Hold Up

1904 Film

A Brush Between Cowboys and Indians

1904 Film

The Life of an American Cowboy

1908 Film

Sold

1915 Film

Zaza

1915 Film

The Life of a Cowboy

1906 Film

Parsifal

1904 Film

The Gentleman Burglar

1908 Film

The Gentleman Burglar

1908 Film

A Good Little Devil

1914 Film

Such a Little Queen

1914 Film

A Winter Straw Ride

1906 Film

Jack the Kisser

1907 Film

Appointment by Telephone

1902 Film

The Cord of Life

1909 Film

Lost Illusions

1911 Film

Lost Illusions

1911 Film

R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige

1904 Film

The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship

1902 Film

The Count of Monte Cristo

1913 Film

Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

1901 Film

What Happened in the Tunnel

1903 Film

The Count of Monte Cristo

1913 Film

Circular Panorama of Electric Tower

1901 Film

Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip

1901 Film

Hearts Adrift

1914 Film

Fire and Flames at Luna Park, Coney Island (An Attraction at Coney Island)

1904 Film

Cupid’s Pranks

1908 Film

Three American Beauties

1906 Film

Tess of the Storm Country

1914 Film

The Night Before Christmas

1905 Film

How Jones Lost His Roll

1905 Film

Catching an Early Train

1901 Film

The Reversible Divers

1901 Film

Poor John

1907 Film

Waiting at the Church

1906 Film

I.B. Dam and the Whole Dam Family

1905 Film

The Morals of Marcus

1915 Film

The White Pearl

1915 Film

In the Bishop's Carriage

1913 Film

City Hall to Harlem in 15 Seconds, Via the Subway Route

1904 Film

Aunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle

1901 Film

Life Rescue at Long Branch

1901 Film

Photographing a Country Couple

1901 Film

The Burlesque Suicide

1902 Film

Cupid’s Pranks

1908 Film

Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)

1902 Film

Buster's Revenge on the Tramp

1904 Film

Sunshine Sue

1910 Film

Dewar's Scotch Whisky

1900 Film

On the Western Frontier

1909 Film

Strange Adventure of New York Drummer

1899 Film

Rounding Up of the “Yeggmen”

1904 Film

Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards

1904 Film

Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards

1904 Film

Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly

1905 Film

On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride

1905 Film

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

1906 Film

Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls

1904 Film

Desperate Encounter Between Burglar and Police

1905 Film

The Attack on the Mill

1910 Film

On the Brink

1911 Film

The Price

1911 Film

Day at the Circus

1901 Film

Panoramic View of Electric Tower from a Balloon

1901 Film

Capture of the Biddle Brothers

1902 Film

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Film

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Film

Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.

1904 Film

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

1901 Film

Electrocuting an Elephant

1903 Film

Bella Donna

1915 Film

Buster's Joke on Papa (II)

1903 Film

Buster's Joke on Papa (I)

1903 Film

Electrocuting an Elephant

1903 Film

The Kiss

1900 Film

A Country Girl's Seminary Life and Experiences

1908 Film

Niobe

1915 Film

The Prince and the Pauper

1915 Film

Animated Painting

1904 Film

When We Were Twenty-One

1915 Film

Street Car Chivalry

1903 Film

Japanese Acrobats

1904 Film

The Crucible

1914 Film

The Crucible

1914 Film

Fighting the Flames, Dreamland

1904 Film

Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls

1904 Film

Railroad Smashup

1904 Film

Panorama of Blackwell's Island

1903 Film

Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River

1903 Film

Battle of Chemulpo Bay

1904 Film

Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden

1904 Film

The Boarding School Girls

1905 Film

The Physical Culture Girl

1903 Film