George Albert Smith Movies

Girl dreams of Dick Whittington, Robinson Crusoe, Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Red Riding Hood.

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

A collection of early British Films from the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Films include: Brighton Seagoing Electric Car (1897), The Inexhaustible Cab...

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

A woman is shown various wallpaper samples, in a short displaying the Kinemacolour process

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

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...

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...

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

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...

Master kisses maid behind a blanket on the clothes line and is seen by his wife.

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...

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.

Kinemacolor

Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.

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

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

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