Thomas A. Edison Movies

  • 1909
    Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company

    Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company

    Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company

    01909HD

    A short film in which the members of the Motion Pictures Patents Company (which had been founded only a year earlier) congratulate Thomas Edison...

    Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company
  • 1912
    The Spanish Cavalier

    The Spanish Cavalier

    The Spanish Cavalier

    01912HD

    A formerly lost Edison film from 1912.

    The Spanish Cavalier
  • 1913
    A Minstrel Show

    A Minstrel Show

    A Minstrel Show

    81913HD

    An Edison Kinetophone short presenting an on-stage minstrel company performing musical numbers and patter; made as part of Edison’s early...

    A Minstrel Show
  • 1904
    Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.

    Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.

    Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.

    61904HD

    With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes...

    Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.