Screenplay: 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

Plot The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing,...

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

Plot Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy....

Direction Edwin S. Porter

Plot Marguerite is seated before the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Mephistopheles...