Filmes

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

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...

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

An abridged version of the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, who wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where...

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

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

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...

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière...

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both...

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

A parade in the Vatican.