George Albert Smith Movies

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of...

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

An adaptation of the folk tale.

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.

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

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

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 of a...

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

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...

A bracing fight scene

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

An early experiment in bringing colour to animation sees a bubble-blowing doll, a toy circus and a stubborn donkey revelling in two-tone glory.

Lovers are comically interrupted

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

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.