Edison: The Invention of the Movies: Disc 1 / Early Edison Camera Tests [Monkeyshines no. 1 / Monkeyshines no. 2 / Dickson Greeting / Newark Athlete / Men Boxing] / Blacksmithing Scene (1893) / The Barber Shop (1893) / Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze / Athlete with Wand / Sandow / Carmencita / The Boxing Cats / Caicedo with Pole / Annabelle Butterfly Dance / Cockfight, no. 2 / Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph / Sioux Ghost Dance / Buffalo Dance / The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight / Hadj Cheriff, Arab Knife Juggler / Glenroy Bros., no. 2 / Louis Martinetti, Contortionist / Bucking Broncho / Annie Oakley / Imperial Japanese Dance / Robetta and Doretto, Chinese Laundry Scene / Band Drill / Fire Rescue / Billy Edwards and the Unknown / Dickson Experimental Sound Film / Princess Ali / Annabelle Serpentine Dance / The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots / Amy Muller / The John C. Rice-May Irwin Kiss / Shooting the Chutes / Fatima, Muscle Dancer / Mess Call / Inventor Edison Sketched by World Artist / Watermelon Eating Contest / The Lone Fisherman / Interrupted Lovers / Feeding the Doves / A Morning Bath / The Burning Stable / Mounted Police Charge / Going to the Fire / A Morning Alarm / Black Diamond Express / American Falls from Above, American Side / The First Sleigh Ride / The Morning Alarm / Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory / Return of Lifeboat / Troop Ships for the Philippines / U. S. Troops Landing at Daiquiri, Cuba / The Burglar on the Roof 1899: Firemen Rescuing Men and Women / A Wringing Good Joke / Gold Rush Scenes in the Klondike 1900: Searching Ruins on Broadway for Dead Bodies, Galveston / The Kiss / Capture of Boer Battery by British / New Black Diamond Exress / A Storm at Sea (1901) / Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken / High Diving Scene / Photographing a Country Couple / What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City / Pan-American Exposition by Night / Trapeze Disrobing Act (1902) / The Burning of Durland’s Riding Academy / Jack and the Beanstalk / Interrupted Bathers / Electrocuting an Elephant / The Life of an American Fireman / Egyptian Fakir with Dancing Monkey / A Scrap in Black and White / Uncle Tom’s Cabin / The Gay Shoe Clerk / Turning the Tables / What Happened in the Tunnel / The Great Train Robbery / Rector’s to Claremont

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Title: Edison: The Invention of the Movies: Disc 1 / Early Edison Camera Tests [Monkeyshines no. 1 / Monkeyshines no. 2 / Dickson Greeting / Newark Athlete / Men Boxing] / Blacksmithing Scene (1893) / The Barber Shop (1893) / Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze / Athlete with Wand / Sandow / Carmencita / The Boxing Cats / Caicedo with Pole / Annabelle Butterfly Dance / Cockfight, no. 2 / Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph / Sioux Ghost Dance / Buffalo Dance / The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight / Hadj Cheriff, Arab Knife Juggler / Glenroy Bros., no. 2 / Louis Martinetti, Contortionist / Bucking Broncho / Annie Oakley / Imperial Japanese Dance / Robetta and Doretto, Chinese Laundry Scene / Band Drill / Fire Rescue / Billy Edwards and the Unknown / Dickson Experimental Sound Film / Princess Ali / Annabelle Serpentine Dance / The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots / Amy Muller / The John C. Rice-May Irwin Kiss / Shooting the Chutes / Fatima, Muscle Dancer / Mess Call / Inventor Edison Sketched by World Artist / Watermelon Eating Contest / The Lone Fisherman / Interrupted Lovers / Feeding the Doves / A Morning Bath / The Burning Stable / Mounted Police Charge / Going to the Fire / A Morning Alarm / Black Diamond Express / American Falls from Above, American Side / The First Sleigh Ride / The Morning Alarm / Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory / Return of Lifeboat / Troop Ships for the Philippines / U. S. Troops Landing at Daiquiri, Cuba / The Burglar on the Roof 1899: Firemen Rescuing Men and Women / A Wringing Good Joke / Gold Rush Scenes in the Klondike 1900: Searching Ruins on Broadway for Dead Bodies, Galveston / The Kiss / Capture of Boer Battery by British / New Black Diamond Exress / A Storm at Sea (1901) / Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken / High Diving Scene / Photographing a Country Couple / What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City / Pan-American Exposition by Night / Trapeze Disrobing Act (1902) / The Burning of Durland's Riding Academy / Jack and the Beanstalk / Interrupted Bathers / Electrocuting an Elephant / The Life of an American Fireman / Egyptian Fakir with Dancing Monkey / A Scrap in Black and White / Uncle Tom's Cabin / The Gay Shoe Clerk / Turning the Tables / What Happened in the Tunnel / The Great Train Robbery / Rector's to Claremont

Summary: The films of the Edison Company produced between 1889 and 1903.

Director: James White, William Heise, W.K.L. Dickson, J. Stuart Blackton, Albert Smith, Edwin S. Porter, George Fleming, Alfred Abadie, Alfred Clark, Edwin S. Porter, Thomas Crahan, Robert K. Bonine, Fred Blechynden, N. Dushane Cloward, William Paley, Arthur White

Cast: various

Year: 1894

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Format: DVD

Language: Silent

Country: USA

Comments: The DVD includes filmed introductions and commentary, program notes, interviews, notes about the kinetophone, photographs and printable pdf files about the films.

Collection: Silent