Movies: Thomas A Edison Inc
- 1911
The Battle of Trafalgar (1911)
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The Battle of Trafalgar is a possibly lost 1911 American silent docudrama film that portrayed the 1805 victory of Great Britain’s Royal Navy over the combined naval forces of France and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. The death of British Vice-Admi...
- 1917
The Law of the North (1917)
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When Edith Graham returns from school to live with her father, Lieutenant Graham, at a Northwest Mounted Police post in Hudson's Bay, she finds herself courted by two suitors, Corporal John Emerson and Reginald Annesley, the latter of whom is a wealt...
- 1917
The Luck of Roaring Camp (1917)
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The story takes place in a small struggling mining town located in the foothills of the California mountains at the time of the gold rush. The camp is suffering from a long string of bad luck. With only one woman in their midst, it seems as though th...
- 1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
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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....
- 1912
The Usurer's Grip (1912)
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Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama....
- 1917
The Last Sentence (1917)
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George Crosby, a New York lawyer, with a passion for painting, wearied of his legal duties, sails for Brittany, where he meets Renée Kerouac, a fisher-maiden, and sketches her as a Corregan, a fairy who destroys the men who refuse her love. Hoel Kall...
- 1904
Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards (1904)
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Renactment of a skirmish that was likely to have occurred in the Russo-Japanese War. Opens with an establishing scene entitled "A Japanese outpost on the Yalu River," which shows the Japanese soldiers of the infantry outpost doing rifle drills and ra...
- 1897
Free-for-All race at Charter Oak Park (1897)
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Great horse racing on the famous Hartford track, showing start and finish of a 2.04 3/4 heat run by the fastest harness horse in the world, John R. Gentry....
- 1897
Loading baggage for Klondike, no. 6 (1897)
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This was the first ship sailing for the Klondike from Seattle during the gold rush of 1897. The picture shows the excitement and enthusiasm that attended the great Klondike exodus. Crowds of anxious gold seekers watch the loading of their outfits, cl...
- 1897
Falls of Minnehaha (1897)
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The 'Laughing Waters' of Longfellow's 'Hiawatha.' A beautiful view of this picturesque and celebrated waterfall....
- 1897
Fisherman's Wharf (1897)
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Shows the wharf at San Francisco, Cal., with a large fleet of fishing boats at anchor....
- 1897
Buffalo Fire Department in Action (1897)
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Ten horse-drawn pieces of equipment of the Buffalo Fire Department pass by a stationary camera that looks down a broad avenue as they come toward it......
- 1897
Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago (1897)
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The busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward the Masonic Temple....
- 1917
Where Love Is (1917)
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A six-part adaptation of William J. Locke's novel "Where Love Is."...
- 1918
The Bride (1918)
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A simple old story of the girl who longs to yield to her lover's appeal that they be married at once, but hesitates to break the news to "pa."...
- 1917
One Touch of Nature (1917)
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Bill Cosgrove, a hot new rookie for the New York Giants, hits a cold streak during the deciding game of the World's Series....
- 1897
Horses loading for Klondike, no. 9 (1897)
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The wharf is crowded with live stock, and the huge derrick slowly drops the large box or sling into the bunch. Into this cradle a horse is led, and is slowly hoisted and swung over to the deck of the steamer. This picture is taken ten minutes before ...
- 1897
Single Harness Horses (1897)
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Shows ten horses hitched to fashionable carts driven past the judges and grandstand to show their style, action and high-stepping movements. Among the drivers, Charles F. (Fatty ) Bates, the noted whip, shows up very prominently. The horses are all o...
- 1917
R.F.D., 10,000 B.C. (1917)
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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....
- 1917
The Light in Darkness (1917)
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Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a young girl who speaks encouragingly to him. Later he is surprised to discover that Hilary is also a pr...