Movies

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

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.

A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.

An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a...

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

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

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother.

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 jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

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...

Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

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

A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.