Charles Urban Trading Company Movies

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and...

In 1906, the Arlberg Railway, which connects the Austrian cities of Innsbruck and Bludenz, is the only east-west mountain railway in Austria. This...

In 1953, in an old cabinet of a former photographer from Zermatt, a first mountaineering film was found. It was a silent film from the first era...

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a...

An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward...

A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make...

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

Punished for mistreating the family pets, a young boy uses his chemistry set to wreak revenge on his parents.

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading...

A dog leads a detective to a robber's hideout and fetches the police.

This fragment comprises just over half of the original film and features a parade of partially-submerged submarines and destroyers launching...

An one of the two suriving sections of Urban's original nine-part, 2,500-ft documentary, an exceptionally observant view of London life.

Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits. Shot during the Russo Japanese war by...

A battle between two forces takes place. There's no information on this 4-minute film aside from the fact that it was available from Charles Urban's...

A short documentary about China in the early 20th Century.