Edwin S. Porter

A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man.

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can’t stop laughing, and every other ...

Chollie and George compete for a young woman’s affection, using trickery and sabotage.

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 ...

1906 film by Edwin S. Porter, based on a popular song of the same title.

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows ...

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to ...

Klingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail. Evil summons Kundry. Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal. Crowning of Amfortas. Wounding of ...

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper…

A band of robbers are playing cards in the foreground of the picture. Suddenly one of the gang who has been on the lookout for the stage coach ...

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a “Dog Transformator,” a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, ...

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 ...

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.

Porter’s sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the ...

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

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.

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, ...

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, ...

The scene opens in the bedroom of Mr. Nation, husband of the famous Carrie Nation, the “Kansas Saloon Smasher”. Mr. Nation suddenly arises from ...

Our presidential hunter runs across the landscape and falls down in the snow, gets up with his rifle, and gazes upward at a treed animal which ...