Edison Studios Movies

A young man buys an Aladdin’s lamp at an auction and employs the genie to help him see his love.

Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealousy of her sweetheart, Frank, the butler. Frank goe...

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...

The Shamrock is seen after its defeat in the 1899 America's Cup, along with the Erin, which served as its tow boat across the Atlantic.

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...

From his mysterious headquarters, in the heart of Chinatown, a nefarious crime lord plots the overthrow of the republic.

While their degenerate descendant sleeps, ancestral portraits come alive and admonish him.

“The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit.” (Edison film catalog)

A play based on a famous English case of a man being executed wrongfully on circumstantial evidence.

Mr. Danbury, a theatrical manager, is visited by Ellis Harcourt, who seeks a position with one of Danbury's companies. Danbury tells him that, since h...

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

Shows a party of English people in their chairs. This is the only safe way of getting about in Canton, as the streets are indescribably filthy.

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

A farmer kisses a lean girl.

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewis...

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the...

Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.

A magnificent picture of this boat making a run and starting the water from a least a dozen nozzles at once...

Two cocks fight whilst being watched by two men.

The famous show makes a parade.