The Adventures of Dollie

On a warm and sunny summer’s day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

On a warm and sunny summer’s day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.
A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are seated an old gentleman, a duenna, and a pretty young Senora. The inevitable happens;…

1860: Buffalo Bill und Wild Bill Hickock sollen einen Postkurierdienst über den Kontinent aufbauen. Doch kalifornische Unionsgegner sabotieren den Pony Express und beliefern Indianer mit Waffen. Damit nicht genug: Bill verliebt sich in die Separatistin Evelyn

Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria kidnapped. When he is unable to meet their request, they take Maria away. The…

A romance between a railroad engineer and the switchman’s daughter is nearly ruined by train wreckers who knock out the girl and leave her on the tracks to be run over. The engineer perches on the engine’s cow catcher and…

In this parody of 1903’s “Great Train Robbery”, also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by police officers.

A historical re-enactment of a naval battle in Chemulpo Bay off the coast of Korea during the Russo-Japanese war. Shows a Japanese ship damaging one Russian vessel and sinking another.

A film directed by , released in 1904.

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

Porter’s sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from…