Movies: Thomas A Edison Inc

  • 1917
    The Tell-Tale Step

    The Tell-Tale Step (1917)

    The Tell-Tale Step

    01917HD

    Giovanni Pallazzi, a former member of the Black Hand, an Italian criminal organization, comes to America with his blind daughter Lucia and prospers. Hearing of his success, his former associates demand that he aid in their support...

    The Tell-Tale Step
  • 1917
    The Light in Darkness

    The Light in Darkness (1917)

    The Light in Darkness

    01917HD

    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...

    The Light in Darkness
  • 1917
    Where Love Is

    Where Love Is (1917)

    Where Love Is

    01917HD

    A six-part adaptation of William J. Locke's novel "Where Love Is."...

    Where Love Is
  • 1917
    The Law of the North

    The Law of the North (1917)

    The Law of the North

    61917HD

    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...

    The Law of the North
  • 1917
    One Touch of Nature

    One Touch of Nature (1917)

    One Touch of Nature

    5.21917HD

    Bill Cosgrove, a hot new rookie for the New York Giants, hits a cold streak during the deciding game of the World's Series....

    One Touch of Nature
  • 1917
    R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.

    R.F.D., 10,000 B.C. (1917)

    R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.

    5.81917HD

    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....

    R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.
  • 1918
    The Spoiled Girl

    The Spoiled Girl (1918)

    The Spoiled Girl

    01918HD

    James Montgomery Flagg first draws his sketch of the girl, and then tearing it from its frame reveals the real girl lounging in bed with the pouting expression which is her wont. Then we are treated to an exposé of her various moods and selfish acts....

    The Spoiled Girl
  • 1915
    Gladiola

    Gladiola (1915)

    Gladiola

    01915HD

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    Gladiola
  • 1911
    The Battle of Trafalgar

    The Battle of Trafalgar (1911)

    The Battle of Trafalgar

    01911HD

    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...

    The Battle of Trafalgar
  • 1912
    The Usurer's Grip

    The Usurer's Grip (1912)

    The Usurer's Grip

    4.51912HD

    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....

    The Usurer's Grip
  • 1912
    Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah

    Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah (1912)

    Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah

    01912HD

    Survives only incomplete, but it nicely evokes the lost mining West. The steep hillsides of Bingham Canyon were divided into ethnic enclaves, and in the excerpt we glimpse the neighborhood known as Highland Boy, home to Italian and eastern European i...

    Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah
  • 1917
    The Luck of Roaring Camp

    The Luck of Roaring Camp (1917)

    The Luck of Roaring Camp

    01917HD

    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...

    The Luck of Roaring Camp
  • 1917
    The Last Sentence

    The Last Sentence (1917)

    The Last Sentence

    01917HD

    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...

    The Last Sentence
  • 1897
    The Sea Lions' Home

    The Sea Lions' Home (1897)

    The Sea Lions' Home

    4.31897HD

    The famous Seal Rocks at Golden Gate Park are here shown. Sea lions in their wild state are lying on the rocks and swimming and diving in the water....

    The Sea Lions' Home
  • 1897
    Loading baggage for Klondike, no. 6

    Loading baggage for Klondike, no. 6 (1897)

    Loading baggage for Klondike, no. 6

    3.71897HD

    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...

    Loading baggage for Klondike, no. 6
  • 1904
    Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards

    Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards (1904)

    Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards

    3.51904HD

    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...

    Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards
  • 1917
    Chris and His Wonderful Lamp

    Chris and His Wonderful Lamp (1917)

    Chris and His Wonderful Lamp

    01917HD

    A young man buys an Aladdin’s lamp at an auction and employs the genie to help him see his love....

    Chris and His Wonderful Lamp
  • 1897
    Free-for-All race at Charter Oak Park

    Free-for-All race at Charter Oak Park (1897)

    Free-for-All race at Charter Oak Park

    3.41897HD

    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....

    Free-for-All race at Charter Oak Park
  • 1897
    Buffalo Stockyards

    Buffalo Stockyards (1897)

    Buffalo Stockyards

    3.51897HD

    From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed....

    Buffalo Stockyards
  • 1918
    The Bride

    The Bride (1918)

    The Bride

    01918HD

    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."...

    The Bride