Warwick Trading Company Movies

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

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers...

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....

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

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

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House. Despite the common belief, this is NOT the world's first Dickens' adaptation in cinema.

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...

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

The reception to the future King Edward VII upon his arrival to Edinburgh in 1899.

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.

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

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

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...

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

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

A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.

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

An early short about fox hunting

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South...