Armand D’Ary
A William K. L. Dickson film directed by , released in 1894.
A William K. L. Dickson film directed by , released in 1894.

A short Edison Black Maria studio film featuring famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, known as “Little Sure Shot.” Born Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee in Ohio in 1860, she rose to global fame performing with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Accompanied (likely)…
Lost film from 1891, directed by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise.

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to…

“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both laugh. Meantime the man in the chair is shaved and has his hair cut.…

Lee Martin, one of the cowboy stars in ‘Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’, rides a bronco as a crowd looks on. While the horse is trying to throw Martin off its back, another cowboy stands on top of a fence rail…

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as ‘Injuns’ Edison’s company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what is believed to be the Native Americans first appearance before a motion picture camera ‘Buffalo Dance’ features…

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had…

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company’s film studio.