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poster Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
1mn - Documentary
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Pri…
poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
(3.3/5)
1mn - Documentary
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…
poster Photograph
Photograph
(2.9/5)
1mn - Comedy
A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture,…
poster Transformation by Hats
Transformation by Hats
(3.1/5)
1mn - Comedy
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
poster Boat Leaving the Port
Boat Leaving the Port
(3.0/5)
1mn - Drama, Documentary
In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.
poster Déjeuner du Chat
Déjeuner du Chat
1mn - Documentary
A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.
poster Lyon, place Bellecour
Lyon, place Bellecour
1mn - Documentary
Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.
poster Le maréchal-ferrant
Le maréchal-ferrant
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to receive a new shoe.
poster Backgammon Game
Backgammon Game
1mn - Documentary
A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets caught red-handed, which results in him closing the game…
poster Around a Cabin
Around a Cabin
(3.1/5)
15mn - Animation
The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water from the diving board and then appear on the beach. The wo…
poster Band Drill
Band Drill
1mn - Documentary
A scene from Charles Hoyt's 'A Milk White Flag': A brass band marches out, led by bandmaster Steele Ayers. When Ayers reaches his position, he turns around and directs the musicians as they take up their …
poster Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
poster Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
1mn - Documentary, Western
A short Edison Black Maria studio film featuring famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, known as “Little Sure Shot.” Born Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee in Ohio in 1860, she rose to global fame performing with Buffalo…
poster Bucking Broncho
Bucking Broncho
1mn - Documentary, Western
Lee Martin, one of the cowboy stars in 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West', rides a bronco as a crowd looks on. While the horse is trying to throw Martin off its back, another cowboy stands on top of a fence rail …
poster Hadj Cheriff
Hadj Cheriff
1mn -
Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife in his hand at the opening of the act. He then hurls the…
poster Sioux Ghost Dance
Sioux Ghost Dance
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary, Western
From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war paint and war costumes. 40 feet. 7.50. According to Ediso…
poster Buffalo Dance
Buffalo Dance
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary, Western
Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what is believed to be the Native Americans first appearanc…
poster The Boxing Cats
The Boxing Cats
(2.9/5)
1mn - Documentary, Comedy, Action
"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
poster Leonard-Cushing Fight
Leonard-Cushing Fight
1mn - Documentary
In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in whit…
poster Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
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