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Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

Sequel to Rats and Terrier No. 2

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 short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

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...

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...

A poor young boy goes on a field trip and dreams of escaping to a land beyond the sunset.

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

A naive young lady comes to the big city but is unfortunately befriended by a couple who probably are up to no good. However, she is unaware of this...

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

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

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

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

Directed by J. Searle Dawley.

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...

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.