Movies

A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman...

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator...

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

A playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to...

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to...

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

A panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.