Edwin S. Porter Movies

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....

A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him...

A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.

After receiving a scolding for falling asleep on the job, Cupid is sent out in search of potential lovers to unite. While flying over a city, he...

An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they board, and later they enjoy the sights from...

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

Our presidential hunter runs across the landscape and falls down in the snow, gets up with his rifle, and gazes upward at a treed animal which isn't...

Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not...

A most perfect picture of the Pan-American Exposition buildings, including the Electric Tower and Temple of Music, as they appear at night.

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a...

Chollie and George compete for a young woman's affection, using trickery and sabotage.

A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.

“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In...

A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.

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

The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady...

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...