Movies

A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

A policeman is run over by an automobile

An early example of film nostalgia. This lengthy programme put together by filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, largely from films in his own collection, is a...

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

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

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

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

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.