Charles Urban Trading Company Movies

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and...

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

On september 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

This movie shows the bombardment by the Japanese of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

Take a trip in time and space to Edwardian Britain, and travel along the North Wales coast. Starting in the walled city of Chester you hop on a train...

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

A 1905 film by the Charles Urban Trading Company.

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.

An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward...

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a...

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading...

This fragment comprises just over half of the original film and features a parade of partially-submerged submarines and destroyers launching...

A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.

The 280 different views comprising this series depict sights along a route over the most important thoroughfares of London, not merely showing street...

Documentary about building a engine.

A dog leads a detective to a robber's hideout and fetches the police.