George Albert Smith Movies

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

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

A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

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...

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

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

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...

A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.

A bracing fight scene

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...

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new...

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

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film...