Williamson Kinematograph Company Movies

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down...

A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She...

A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again...

Short film about a man embarking on and returing from war. A print survives at the BFI.

A young man's telephone call to his sweetheart is intercepted by her father, who beats him with his umbrella.

A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as...

A clown cuts off a customer's head and replaces it.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera...

Directed by one of the pioneers of the cinematic industry, James Williamson, The History of a Butterfly - A Romance of Insect Life is an intriguing...

Scenes of islanders and seabirds on the remote island of St. Kilda.

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

The adventures of an inattentive man who can't look away from his book.

As a man removes his clothes to bathe, more reappear on him.

A momentous act of self sacrifice is caught on camera - Emily Davison is trampled by the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

A sexton reforms after dreaming of abduction by goblins.

A conjurer vanishes animals then vanishes himself.

Boys play pranks on people and are chased.

A village fire brigade puts out a fire.

An aged villager, reminded of his boyhood days in the church choir by the sound of the bells, totters to the church door and begs the vicar to allow...