Edwin S. Porter filmography

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The following is a list of films by Edwin S. Porter, head producer at the Edison Manufacturing Company, owned by Thomas A. Edison, between 1901 and 1909. Other films were produced at Rex and Famous Players Film Company.^[1]

1901[]

• The Artist's Dilemma - (2 minutes) an artist asleep in his studio and his dream of a clock opening and a beautiful woman coming out of it
• Panorama of Esplanade by Night
• Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison - (3:24 minutes) reenactment of the execution of Leon Czolgosz by electric chair
• Trapeze Disrobing Act
• The Martyred Presidents - (1 minute) on the assassination U.S. Presidents—Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley
• Rubes in the Theatre
• Sampson-Schley Controversy
• Circular Panorama of Electric Tower
• Soubrette's Troubles on a Fifth Avenue Stage Coach
• The Farmer and the Bad Boys
• The Reversible Divers
• 'Weary Willie' and the Gardener
• What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City - (77 seconds) film depicting a woman walking over a grate, the hot air lifting her skirt
• How the Dutch Beat the Irish
• The Tramp's Strategy That Failed
• Another Job for the Undertaker - (2 minutes) fantasy-comedy film
• Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
• Pie, Tramp and the Bulldog
• Happy Hooligan April-Fooled
• Happy Hooligan Surprised
• The Automatic Weather Prophet
• Love by the Light of the Moon - (1 minute) the moon smiles down on two lovers
• The Donkey Party
• Kansas Saloon Smashers - (1 minute) a satire of American activist Carrie Nation
• The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken
• Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
• The Finish of Bridget McKeen
• Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (61 seconds) political satire on vice-president Theodore Roosevelt
• Day at the Circus - (50 seconds) depicts a parade of the Great Forepaugh and Sells Bros. Combined Circus followed by a horse race in the tent
• The Old Maid in the Horsecar
• The Tramp's Unexpected Skate

1902[]

• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show

1903[]

• The Great Train Robbery
• What Happened in the Tunnel
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903 film)
• Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
• Life of an American Fireman
• Electrocuting an Elephant (possibly with or by Jacob Blair Smith) - film of the execution of Topsy the elephant by the owners of Luna Park on Coney island.^[2]

1904[]

• Parsifal
• The European Rest Cure
• Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride
• Maniac Chase

1905[]

• The Night Before Christmas
• The Train Wreckers
• The Miller's Daughter
• The White Caps (with Wallace McCutcheon Sr.)
• The Little Train Robbery
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• The Kleptomaniac
• The Seven Ages

1906[]

• Kathleen Mavourneen
• Waiting at the Church'
• Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

1907[]

• Laughing Gas
• College Chums
• The Trainer's Daughter or A Race for Love
• Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• The Rivals
• The 'Teddy' Bears, with Wallace McCutcheon
• Daniel Boone

1908[]

1909[]

• The Three Kisses
• A Bird in a Gilded Cage

1910[]

• The Greater Love
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Peg Woffington

1911[]

• The Rose and the Dagger
• The Lighthouse by the Sea
• Captain Nell
• Silver Threads Among the Gold
• A Night of Terror
• By the Light of the Moon
• The Price of Victory

1912[]

1913[]

• The Count of Monte Cristo
• His Neighbor's Wife
• In the Bishop's Carriage
• The Prisoner of Zenda

1914[]

• The Crucible
• Such a Little Queen
• The Spitfire
• Tess of the Storm Country
• A Good Little Devil
• Hearts Adrift

1915[]

• Lydia Gilmore
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Bella Donna
• Zaza
• The White Pearl
• Sold
• Jim the Penman
• The Eternal City
• When We Were Twenty-One
• The Morals of Marcus

References[]

External links[]

• Edwin S. Porter at IMDb