Movies: Thomas A Edison Inc

  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1894
    Dickson Experimental Sound Film

    Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)

    Dickson Experimental Sound Film

    6.11894HD

    William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph....

    Dickson Experimental Sound Film
  • 1915
    Gladiola

    Gladiola (1915)

    Gladiola

    01915HD

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    Gladiola
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 1897
    Single Harness Horses

    Single Harness Horses (1897)

    Single Harness Horses

    11897HD

    Shows ten horses hitched to fashionable carts driven past the judges and grandstand to show their style, action and high-stepping movements. Among the drivers, Charles F. (Fatty ) Bates, the noted whip, shows up very prominently. The horses are all o...

    Single Harness Horses
  • 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
  • 1905
    On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride

    On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride (1905)

    On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride

    51905HD

    Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full of snakes that got loose. A goose gets involved in the chase, and is stolen by a tramp. The chase end...

    On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride
  • 1905
    Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly

    Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly (1905)

    Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly

    01905HD

    The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to take water on the fly by scooping it out of a pan set between the railroad tracks....

    Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly
  • 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
    Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago

    Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago (1897)

    Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago

    4.21897HD

    The busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward the Masonic Temple....

    Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago
  • 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
  • 1897
    Falls of Minnehaha

    Falls of Minnehaha (1897)

    Falls of Minnehaha

    4.21897HD

    The 'Laughing Waters' of Longfellow's 'Hiawatha.' A beautiful view of this picturesque and celebrated waterfall....

    Falls of Minnehaha
  • 1897
    Launch of Surf Boat

    Launch of Surf Boat (1897)

    Launch of Surf Boat

    11897HD

    The crew of seven dressed in cork jackets, push the boat through the surf; they clamber in and row out to the wreck. 50 ft....

    Launch of Surf Boat
  • 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