Movies

A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and...

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film...

Girl gives spoonful of milk to kitten. (Cut-in close-up) [The British Film Catalogue]

A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.

Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the...

A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.

Early story film about a girl's dreams

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new...

A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one...

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others.

George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading...