Most Viewed From Edison Studios

A daredevil rides his bicycle down a ramp and attempts to land in a pool of water as a crowd of spectators watches.

A crowd watches the Newark Fire Department respond to a call.

"A battalion of New York's famous mounted police at inspection. They approach at break-neck gallop." - from the Edison Catalog

Lowell, Massachusetts: a stationary camera records the St. Patrick's Day parade on a muddy street.

"'Neidert,' of national fame, does stunts on his wheel that are simply wonderful. Makes his bicycle rear up

Taken on the Lehigh Valley R. R., near Towanda, Pa., in a beautiful valley along the Susquehanna River. The train is seen approaching at a speed of...

According to Harper's Bazaar (8 March 1884), the Montreal Winter Carnival was founded as a means of promoting tourism to the country, aiming...

The turbulent life of a loving couple escaped from a poster.

Pennsylvania's historic Horseshoe Curve, photographed by an Edison cameraman in 1900.

Sheep bound through a narrow opening, followed by a panoramic vista of the flock running through a meadow.

"Produced to show the unreasonable and absurd lengths to which local censorship of motion pictures might be carried"-- A film so heavily censored...

Not "as in a looking glass" but "as in his own portrait" in a dream does Paul Le Grand, the famous artist, see the lines of dissipation come, one by...

Ships of foreign countries and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet participate in the international naval review which marks the opening of the Jamestown...

A remarkable and mystifying picture, showing a Hindoo Fakir going through a series of tricks.

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and...

Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.

The ramshackle-looking train on the single-track line pulls into the station, just in front of the siding. People clumb down and go on their ways.

The title reads "Hailing Drags". You'd expect some sort of travois affair, but it turns out to be mules hailing sugar cane loaded onto wheeled flats....

The documentary features the oldest footage ever taken of surfing, and it was shot in Hawaii by Robert Bonine.

A view of Pearl Harbor via railway.