Warwick Trading Company Movies

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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...

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

British documentary short released in 1905.

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase...

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy...

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

Tramps stick a hot poker in a barrel labelled beer but containing gunpowder.

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

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...

As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a carriage. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage....

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock.