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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 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 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 In the Barber Shop

In the Barber Shop

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

poster Picking Peaches

Picking Peaches

22mn - Comedy, Animation

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when…

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.

poster Shoes

Shoes

A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes for a new pair of shoes.

poster The Express Sculptor

The Express Sculptor

A sculptor creates several faces in a span of four minutes.

poster The Terrible Turkish Executioner

The Terrible Turkish Executioner

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into t…

poster A Funny Shave

A Funny Shave

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

poster Fencing

Fencing

1mn - Documentary

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

poster Perfect People

Perfect People

100mn - Short, Comedy, Drama

After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education bu…

poster Electrocuting an Elephant

Electrocuting an Elephant

1mn - Documentary

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

poster Scrappily Married

Scrappily Married

7mn - Animation

Henry is terribly henpecked by his wife until he makes friends with Herman Mouse. Turns out his wife is terrified of mice, until she dresses up in a cat costume!

poster Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums

A tragic story of a ballerina.

poster Hadj Cheriff

Hadj Cheriff

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 The Sawmill

The Sawmill

28mn - Comedy, Romance, Action

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

poster Straight Shooting

Straight Shooting

Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he …

poster Men Boxing

Men Boxing

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 Cinderella

Cinderella

7mn - Animation

Cinderella, the "ash girl," is kept in menial labor by her two wicked stepsisters. Meanwhile the handsome prince of the territory is out hunting bears. His father invites everyone in the country to a ball…

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