Most Viewed Year 1894 - 2

"Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison...

James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...

"Said to be the Champion High Kicker of the World."

Champion Lasso Thrower Vicente Oropeza (aka. Vincente Ore Passo/Bisento Orapeso/Vincenti Orapazza) shows his skills.

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films...

Edison short.

One of the series gives successive pictures of an athlete in an unsuccessful attempt to turn a somersault. Everybody who has seen a boy perform this...

Bears that are trained.

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

Lost film from 1894, directed by William K.L. Dickson.

Thomas Edison's machinist, Fred Ott, holds a bird in his hand.

The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete", which depicts a boxer with a...

Two Mexican men duel with knives.

The film was about a group of Polish ice skaters at the slide of the Warsaw Ice Skating Society. The film was filmed using a pleograph which was an...

Annabelle Dances in William K.L. Dickson's 1894 short film

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects.

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

Early short film.

Edison short.