Movies

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

This picture, taken from Thorneycroft's Yard, shows the two boats about twelve lenghts apart - a state of things owing to terrible weather in which...