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Showing posts with label Edison Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edison Film. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2020

Born Today September 11: Arthur White

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1881-1924 British born actor of just a few silent shorts Arthur White (born William Arthur Stewart White) was born on this day in ...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

Born Today June 15: Daniel M. Ransdell

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[source: United States Senate Historical Office] 1842-1912 Another historical figure that has an entry here due to their happen...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

Born Today April 6: Lorrin A. Cooke

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1831-1902 Lorrin Alanson Cooke, future 57th Governor of Connecticut, was born on this day in New Marlborough, MA. He was educated ...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Born Today July 17: Conrad Diehl

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1843-1918 New York state politician and prominent doctor Conrad Diehl was born on this day in Buffalo, New York. Diehl graduated f...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Born Today July 7: Peter Courtney

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Peter Courtney is on the right. 1867-1896 Boxer, actor and early Edison short subject Peter Courtney was born on this day in Doyl...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Born Today June 27: May Irwin

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1862-1938 Canadian born actress, singer and vaudevillian May Irwin was born Georgina May Campbell on this day in Whitby, Ontario,...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Born Today March 24: George Francis Train

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1829-1904 Ecentrentic industrial millionaire George Francis Train was born on this day in Boston, Mass.  His family soon relocated...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Born Today February 11: Melville Fuller

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1833-1910 Melville Weston Fuller was born on this day in Augusta, Maine to a well off family.  His father was a lawyer and both of...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

13 Days Of Creepmas: A Christmas Carol (1910)

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From the Edison Manufacturing Company
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Frankenstein (1910)

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

One Of My Favorite Horror Stills!

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From the very first filmed production of Frankenstein  dating from 1910, produced by the Edison Company and directed by J. Searle Dawley...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

A Trip To Mars (1910)

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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Stills From The Very First Frankenstein (1910)

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Black and White Stills Creation Fire Stills Sepia Stills Monster I...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots (1895)

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An early Edison film with a non-faithful recreation of the execution (beheading) Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland.
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Monday, October 8, 2012

The Edison Sioux Ghost Dance Film (1894)

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Today is "Columbus Day"--a day or mourning for Natives.  
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend (1906)

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This is an Edwin S. Porter film produced for the Edison Studio.  It is based on the then famed cartoon by  Winsor McCay , whose strip ran ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Countdown To Christmas 4

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Yet another Edison Christmas short, but this is one of the company's earliest, dating from 1905.  Of all of Edwin S. Porter's dir...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Countdown To Christmas Day 3

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A CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT (1912) Yet another Edison Christmas short.  It's a little funny, the one earliest Edison Christmas short...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Countdown To Christmas Day 2

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A Winter Straw Ride (1906) Another Edison holiday short, this was photographed and directed by one of motion pictures very first di...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Countdown To Christmas Day 1

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This is another Edison Christmas short produced in 1914, I wanted to juxtapose it with the earlier Little Girl Who Didn't Believe In S...