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- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsFred OttA man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsAnnabelle MooreAnnabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorWilliam HeiseStarsMay IrwinJohn C. RiceIn a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorJames H. White"Shows a life boat coming through the breakers. The surf is high and the stout boat is tossed about like a cork."Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorJames H. WhiteThe S.S. Australia departs from San Francisco Bay, carrying American soldiers to the Philippines.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorRobert K. BonineThomas CrahanFollowing a shot of a newspaper that outlines the hardships of living in the Klondike, there are scenes a typical Klondike town, of people on a raft, and of people mining for gold.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorCecil M. HepworthStarsMay ClarkCecil M. HepworthIn one glorious point-of-view shot, a vehicle dashes full-speed into an ill-starred passer-by.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorGeorge S. FlemingEdwin S. PorterStarsA.C. AbadieFlorence GeorgieA winner and sure to please. In front of one of the largest newspaper offices is a hot air shaft through which immense volumes of air are forced by a blower. Ladies in crossing this shaft often have their clothes slightly disarranged. A young man is escorting a young lady and talking very earnestly. They walk slowly along until they stand directly over the air shaft. The young lady's skirts are suddenly raised to an almost unreasonable height, greatly to her horror and much to the amusement of the newsboys, bootblacks, and passersby.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.Included as part of the "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956) Special Edition
- DirectorGeorge S. FlemingEdwin S. PorterStarsJames H. WhiteThomas WhitePorter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies', Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonA.C. AbadieGeorge BarnesA group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorGeorge S. FlemingEdwin S. PorterStarsEdwin S. PorterVivian VaughanArthur WhiteA fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterAn American tourist has a terrible ordeal on his European vacation.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterA tramp gets involved in mischief on a train.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterA recently released prisoner struggles to support his family.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterIn this parody of 1903's _Great Train Robbery, The (1903)_, also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by police officers.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsPaul PanzerViola AllenFay TempletonA jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the detective to produce photographic evidence. The detective tails the wife, and thinks he has caught her, but a sudden mishap prevents him from getting a photo. Despite this and further setbacks, the dedicated detective presses on, determined to fulfill his assignment.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyEdwin S. PorterStarsGitchner HartmanMr. LehapmanBessie SchredneckyA generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyEdwin S. PorterAn office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsMary FullerMarc McDermottHerbert PriorThe story revolves itself around a Western cowboy who has been sent to the town of Cedar Gulch to deposit gold in the bank for his boss. Arriving too late in the night to dispose of the gold, he seeks out the pretty daughter of the gambling-house keeper who has given her heart unto his keeping. While waiting for the bank to open in the morning, he becomes fascinated with the sight of the money being won at a gambling table, and starts to gamble with his boss's money. Luck is against him, and scarcely before he realizes it he has lost all. Ruin, disgrace, and prison or lynching stare him in the face. Only seeking to get back what he has lost he tries to rob the gambling house at night, and here he comes face to face with the little girl whom he loves. He confesses to her his crime and shame, and the woman's love spreads forth its hands to shield him. She seeks out Rattlesnake Jim, the Sheriff of Cedar Gulch, who also is in love with her, and implores his aid for her unworthy lover. A warrant for the cowboy's arrest reaches Jim while she is at his cabin and he struggles manfully to follow its mandates to the letter, but his love for the girl causes him to swerve from his strict path of duty and he decides to give the guilty man a fighting chance. Either he or the cowboy must quit Cedar Gulch at once. In other words, one of them must die. To live and not do his duty is a thought that has never entered Jim's mind. So these men of iron and nerve fight a novel duel in the Sheriff's lonely cabin, at which he has ordered the cowboy to report. Baring their arms to the elbow they sit at opposite sides of a table, calmly waiting for a great, poisonous rattlesnake to rise from its bed, which opens in the center of the table, and choose its victim. Slowly it uncoils itself upon the table with fangs darting in and out, it rears its head, the men watching its every move in fearful silence. At a moment when it seems that the awful suspense will be ended by a deadly strike fate interferes, and though justice miscarries, yet Cupid's arrow finds an unsuspecting but not unwilling victim in the person of the lion-hearted Sheriff, whose manly conduct, in contrast with that of her lover, reveals to the girl his true worth. All this is told with a wonderful dramatic strength and power, and one never loses interest for a moment.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRobert HarronMae MarshThe story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsMarguerite CourtotRaymond McKeeErich von StroheimA wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.Included as part of "Edison, The invention of the movies" (2005)
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von WangenheimVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- DirectorHarry O. HoytStarsWallace BeeryBessie LoveLloyd HughesThe first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJune TrippIvor NovelloMarie AultA landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.