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poster The Dull Sword

The Dull Sword

4mn - Comedy, Animation

A samurai purchases a new sword only to find it is already dull. When he returns to the dull looking merchant to complain, something quite unexpected happens.

poster A Dull Razor

A Dull Razor

This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble...

poster Two-Gun Gussie

Two-Gun Gussie

10mn - Comedy, Western

A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the loca…

Fencing

1mn - Documentary

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

poster Accordion Player

Accordion Player

1mn - Documentary

The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the …

poster Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

1mn - Documentary, Western

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always a…

poster Jaws of the Shark

Jaws of the Shark

63mn - Horror, Comedy

Two scientists create a genetically enhanced shark with legs, but their experiment goes horribly wrong when the creature escapes. Armed with a chainsaw and a taste for blood, the monster terrorizes teens …

poster Newark Athlete

Newark Athlete

1mn - Documentary

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

poster A Funny Shave

A Funny Shave

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

poster Katsudō Shashin

Katsudō Shashin

1mn - Animation, Family

A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience. Also known as "Matsumoto fragment".

poster Monkeyshines, No. 1

Monkeyshines, No. 1

1mn - Documentary

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 a blurry figure in white standing in one place making l…

poster Arachnicide

Arachnicide

91mn - Sci-Fi, Action, Horror

After years of experimenting, a researcher succeeds in creating an incubator that accelerates plant and animal growth. This technology is controlled by a powerful criminal organization and is being used t…

poster Pool Sharks

Pool Sharks

Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.

poster A Scarlet Angel

A Scarlet Angel

77mn - Crime, Romance, Drama

The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the …

poster Kiri-Kis

Kiri-Kis

3mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.

Shadows

Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…

poster Alice's Orphan

Alice's Orphan

7mn - Animation

Julius the cat is skating on a pond when he espies a young lady break through the ice. He saves her, only to realize she's not particularly attractive, and so throws her back. Meanwhile, a kitten orphan i…

poster Big Business

Big Business

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Moha…

poster The Acrobatic Fly

The Acrobatic Fly

3mn - Documentary

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the seq…

poster Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt

Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt

10mn - Animation, Comedy

Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcome…

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