Edison Studios Movies

  • 1903
    The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery

    7.0031903HD

    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...

    The Great Train Robbery
  • 1910
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    6.0381910HD

    Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

    Frankenstein
  • 1912
    The Land Beyond the Sunset

    The Land Beyond the Sunset

    The Land Beyond the Sunset

    6.3511912HD

    A poor young boy goes on a field trip and dreams of escaping to a land beyond the sunset.

    The Land Beyond the Sunset
  • 1893
    Blacksmithing Scene

    Blacksmithing Scene

    Blacksmithing Scene

    5.51893HD

    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.

    Blacksmithing Scene
  • 1904
    Maniac Chase

    Maniac Chase

    Maniac Chase

    5.9171904HD

    A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

    Maniac Chase
  • 1900
    The Enchanted Drawing

    The Enchanted Drawing

    The Enchanted Drawing

    6.3681900HD

    A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

    The Enchanted Drawing
  • 1896
    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    5.221896HD

    They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

    The Kiss
  • 1909
    Hansel and Gretel

    Hansel and Gretel

    Hansel and Gretel

    2.81909HD

    One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.

    Hansel and Gretel
  • 1904
    Scarecrow Pump

    Scarecrow Pump

    Scarecrow Pump

    4.61904HD

    A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a...

    Scarecrow Pump
  • 1903
    The Gay Shoe Clerk

    The Gay Shoe Clerk

    The Gay Shoe Clerk

    5.51903HD

    A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

    The Gay Shoe Clerk
  • 1910
    The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph

    The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph

    The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph

    4.71910HD

    It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she...

    The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph
  • 1910
    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    6.41910HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

    A Christmas Carol
  • 1902
    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    5.9111902HD

    Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....

    Jack and the Beanstalk
  • 1917
    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    61917HD

    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...

    Kidnapped
  • 1912
    The Crime of Carelessness

    The Crime of Carelessness

    The Crime of Carelessness

    5.21912HD

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

    The Crime of Carelessness
  • 1890
    Monkeyshines, No. 1

    Monkeyshines, No. 1

    Monkeyshines, No. 1

    4.91890HD

    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...

    Monkeyshines, No. 1
  • 1895
    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

    6.11895HD

    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...

    The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
  • 1907
    The 'Teddy' Bears

    The 'Teddy' Bears

    The 'Teddy' Bears

    5.61907HD

    A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

    The 'Teddy' Bears
  • 1917
    Friends, Romans and Leo

    Friends, Romans and Leo

    Friends, Romans and Leo

    3.81917HD

    The plot and setting is actually a bit like Keaton's The Three Ages will be in 1923. But less sophisticated: The Roman Emperor Mulius Caesar borrows...

    Friends, Romans and Leo
  • 1912
    Tim

    Tim

    Tim

    01912HD

    Tim spends his days running with a railroad gang which frustrates his struggling parents. When his father falls ill Tim reluctantly gets a job...

    Tim