Cinematography: Edwin S. Porter

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast Bronco Billy Anderson · A.C. Abadie · Justus D. Barnes · Donald Gallaher

Plot This picture, directed and scripted by Edwin S. Porter, introduced the first cinematic cowboy star, Bronco Billy Anderson. Anderson plays several roles in this action-packed depiction of outlaws ambushing a...

Direction George S. Fleming · Edwin S. Porter

Cast Arthur White · Vivian Vaughan · James H. White

Plot Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the...

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast Aline Boyd · Phineas Nairs · Jane Stewart · George Voijere

Plot A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees....

Direction J. Searle Dawley

Cast Henry B. Walthall · Miss Earle · Jinnie Frazer · D.W. Griffith

Plot A woodcutter says good-bye to his wife and child, and then goes off to work. After he has left, the mother leaves the child outside their cabin to play. Suddenly,...

Direction George S. Fleming · Edwin S. Porter

Cast Florence Georgie · A.C. Abadie

Plot A winner and sure to please. In front of one of the largest newspaper offices is a hot air shaft through which immense volumes of air are forced by a...

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Plot A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of...

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Plot A former convict, now released from prison, is determined to support his wife and child. But with no references, and a past that can be used against him, he has...

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Plot Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but...

Direction George S. Fleming · Edwin S. Porter

Cast Thomas White

Plot The earliest known adaptation of the classic fairytale.

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast William Courtenay · Frank Daniels · May Irwin · Charlotte Walker

Direction George S. Fleming · Edwin S. Porter

Cast Charmion King

Plot In this short silent film, we see Charmion an early vaudeville strongwomen, perform her famous Trapeze disrobing act. During the Victorian era, Charmion believed in promoting physical culture and dress...

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast Charles Manley

Plot Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast Fred Ott

Plot Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is not one...

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast Edward Boulden

Plot 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.

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Plot A jewish shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Plot Recreation of the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast Joseph Hart

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Plot In this parody of 1903's The Great Train Robbery (1903), also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by police...

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Cast Marie Murray

Plot An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they get on board, and they enjoy the sights from the platform on...

Direction Wallace McCutcheon · Edwin S. Porter

Plot In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a bright...