George Albert Smith Movies

In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's...

Man dresses up as a woman, and the film is reversed.

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 into...

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

View of the Grand Canal in Venice from a boat believed to have been made in either 1901 or 1904 and as part of the series "Through Italy with the...

London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others.

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

An old lady is seated at a table with her work basket and her cat washing its paws beside her. The old lady makes several attempts to thread a needle...

A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

A boy releases a mouse and frightens a model.

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 mirror. Then,...

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as...

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

A bracing fight scene

Kinemacolor

The coronation of Edward VII and his wife Alexandra as King and Queen of Great Britain and the British Dominions took place on August 9, 1902, at...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.