George Albert Smith

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is ...

Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she’s unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a ...

A bracing fight scene

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

A scene from Charles Dickens Bleak House.

George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading ...

This film is considered lost

A child borrows his grandmother’s magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows ...

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine’s letter.

A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy ...

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle ...

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the ...

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves ...

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.