Edwin S. Porter

2.6

Electrocuting an Elephant

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Cone…

5.1

What Happened in the Tunnel

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

6.0

Life of an American Fireman

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding…

7.3

The Great Train Robbery

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and i…

4.0

Charleston Chain-Gang

This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day's work of cleaning up the grounds of the…

Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)

Third part in Edison’s “Martinique” trilogy. It shows the shower of ashes and cinders falling upon t…

4.0

Babies Rolling Eggs

The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 wom…

4.0

Capture of the Biddle Brothers

The public throughout the world is acquainted with the sensational capture of the Biddle Brothers an…

3.0