Edwin S. Porter

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

1982 Films

Life of an American Fireman

1903 Films

Jack and the Beanstalk

1902 Films

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Films

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Films

His Neighbor's Wife

1913 Films

A Heroine of '76

1911 Films

The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog

1905 Films

Life of an American Fireman

1903 Films

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

1908 Films

The Eternal City

1915 Films

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

1906 Films

The Little Train Robbery

1905 Films

Russia, the Land of Oppression

1910 Films

A Romance of the Rail

1903 Films

What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City

1901 Films

The Gay Shoe Clerk

1903 Films

Jack and the Beanstalk

1902 Films

The 'Teddy' Bears

1907 Films

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1903 Films

Uncle Josh's Nightmare

1900 Films

Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

1901 Films

Circular Panorama of Electric Tower

1901 Films

Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show

1902 Films

A Good Little Devil

1914 Films

Pan-American Exposition by Night

1901 Films

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

1901 Films

Trapeze Disrobing Act

1901 Films

Panorama of Esplanade by Night

1901 Films

Another Job for the Undertaker

1901 Films

The Martyred Presidents

1901 Films

The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken

1901 Films

Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog

1901 Films

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

1904 Films

Fun in a Bakery Shop

1902 Films

Burning of Durland's Riding Academy

1902 Films

New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market

1903 Films

Maniac Chase

1904 Films

Interrupted Bathers

1902 Films

The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2

1902 Films

The Ex-Convict

1904 Films

European Rest Cure

1904 Films

What Happened in the Tunnel

1903 Films

Rube and Mandy at Coney Island

1903 Films

Subub Surprises the Burglar

1903 Films

Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel

1900 Films

Coney Island at Night

1905 Films

The Night Before Christmas

1905 Films

A Dull Razor

1900 Films

The Magician

1900 Films

Faust and Marguerite

1900 Films

An Animated Luncheon

1900 Films

An Artist's Dream

1900 Films

Ching Ling Foo Outdone

1900 Films

The Tramp's Unexpected Skate

1901 Films

Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce

1901 Films

Sampson-Schley Controversy

1901 Films

Kansas Saloon Smashers

1901 Films

The Mystic Swing

1900 Films

The Unappreciated Joke

1903 Films

The Extra Turn

1903 Films

Rector's to Claremont

1904 Films

The Messenger Boy's Mistake

1903 Films

Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.

1903 Films

Fireboat 'New Yorker' in Action

1903 Films

New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates

1903 Films

White Wings on Review

1903 Films

Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City

1903 Films

New York City Dumping Wharf

1903 Films

A Rube Couple at a County Fair

1904 Films

Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride

1904 Films

The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide

1904 Films

Buster Makes Room for His Mama at the Bargain Counter

1904 Films

Scarecrow Pump

1904 Films

Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business

1904 Films

Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige

1904 Films

Buster Brown and the Dude

1904 Films

Buster's Dog to the Rescue

1904 Films

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

1905 Films

The Seven Ages

1905 Films

The Train Wreckers

1905 Films

How Jones Lost His Roll

1905 Films

The Burglar's Slide for Life

1905 Films

The Miller’s Daughter

1905 Films

The Life of an American Policeman

1905 Films

The Kleptomaniac

1905 Films

The Watermelon Patch

1905 Films

The White Caps

1905 Films

Police Chasing Scorching Auto

1905 Films

Three American Beauties

1906 Films

Babies Rolling Eggs

1902 Films

The Terrible Kids

1906 Films

Kathleen Mavourneen

1906 Films

A Winter Straw Ride

1906 Films

Getting Evidence

1906 Films

The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love

1907 Films

Laughing Gas

1907 Films

College Chums

1907 Films

Cohen’s Fire Sale

1907 Films

A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

1907 Films

The Rivals

1907 Films

Tale the Autumn Leaves Told

1908 Films

A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

1908 Films

Fireside Reminiscences

1908 Films

Tess of the Storm Country

1914 Films

Charleston Chain-Gang

1902 Films

How They Do Things on the Bowery

1902 Films

Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum

1904 Films

The Old Maid in the Horsecar

1901 Films

Rock of Ages

1902 Films

Love by the Light of the Moon

1901 Films

The Lighthouse by the Sea

1911 Films

The Prisoner of Zenda

1913 Films

Parsifal

1904 Films

Dog Factory

1904 Films

Photographing a Female Crook

1904 Films

The Colored Stenographer

1909 Films

The Count of Monte Cristo

1913 Films

His Mother's Thanksgiving

1910 Films

Hearts Adrift

1914 Films

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1910 Films

How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game

1906 Films

The Artist's Dilemma

1901 Films

The Gay Shoe Clerk

1903 Films

How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game

1906 Films

Getting Evidence

1906 Films

Faust

1909 Films

Hansel and Gretel

1909 Films

Miss Sherlock Holmes

1908 Films

Sherlock Holmes, Jr.

1911 Films

The Finish of Bridget McKeen

1901 Films

A Brush Between Cowboys and Indians

1904 Films

Western Stage Coach Hold Up

1904 Films

The Life of an American Cowboy

1908 Films

Sold

1915 Films

Zaza

1915 Films

The Life of a Cowboy

1906 Films

Parsifal

1904 Films

The Gentleman Burglar

1908 Films

The Gentleman Burglar

1908 Films

A Good Little Devil

1914 Films

Such a Little Queen

1914 Films

A Winter Straw Ride

1906 Films

Jack the Kisser

1907 Films

Appointment by Telephone

1902 Films

The Cord of Life

1909 Films

Lost Illusions

1911 Films

Lost Illusions

1911 Films

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

1904 Films

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

1902 Films

The Count of Monte Cristo

1913 Films

The Count of Monte Cristo

1913 Films

Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip

1901 Films

Hearts Adrift

1914 Films

How Jones Lost His Roll

1905 Films

Tess of the Storm Country

1914 Films

The Night Before Christmas

1905 Films

Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

1901 Films

What Happened in the Tunnel

1903 Films

Cupid’s Pranks

1908 Films

Circular Panorama of Electric Tower

1901 Films

Three American Beauties

1906 Films

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

1904 Films

Catching an Early Train

1901 Films

Poor John

1907 Films

Waiting at the Church

1906 Films

The Reversible Divers

1901 Films

I.B. Dam and the Whole Dam Family

1905 Films

The Morals of Marcus

1915 Films

The White Pearl

1915 Films

In the Bishop's Carriage

1913 Films

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

1904 Films

Aunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle

1901 Films

Life Rescue at Long Branch

1901 Films

Photographing a Country Couple

1901 Films

The Burlesque Suicide

1902 Films

Cupid’s Pranks

1908 Films

Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)

1902 Films

Sunshine Sue

1910 Films

Dewar's Scotch Whisky

1900 Films

On the Western Frontier

1909 Films

Strange Adventure of New York Drummer

1899 Films

Rounding Up of the “Yeggmen”

1904 Films

Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards

1904 Films

Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards

1904 Films

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

1905 Films

On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride

1905 Films

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

1906 Films

Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls

1904 Films

Desperate Encounter Between Burglar and Police

1905 Films

The Attack on the Mill

1910 Films

On the Brink

1911 Films

The Price

1911 Films

Day at the Circus

1901 Films

Panoramic View of Electric Tower from a Balloon

1901 Films

Capture of the Biddle Brothers

1902 Films

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Films

The Great Train Robbery

1903 Films

Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.

1904 Films

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

1901 Films

Electrocuting an Elephant

1903 Films

Bella Donna

1915 Films

Buster's Joke on Papa (I)

1903 Films

Buster's Joke on Papa (II)

1903 Films

Electrocuting an Elephant

1903 Films

The Kiss

1900 Films

A Country Girl's Seminary Life and Experiences

1908 Films

Niobe

1915 Films

The Prince and the Pauper

1915 Films

Animated Painting

1904 Films

When We Were Twenty-One

1915 Films

Street Car Chivalry

1903 Films

Japanese Acrobats

1904 Films

The Crucible

1914 Films

The Crucible

1914 Films

Fighting the Flames, Dreamland

1904 Films

Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls

1904 Films

Railroad Smashup

1904 Films

Panorama of Blackwell's Island

1903 Films

Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River

1903 Films

Battle of Chemulpo Bay

1904 Films

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

1904 Films

The Boarding School Girls

1905 Films

The Physical Culture Girl

1903 Films