A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of...
A Railway Collision
A ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.
The Dancer's Dream
Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.
Plucked From The Burning
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.
The Soldier's Courtship
A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.
The Arrest of a Bookmaker
A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk...
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his...
Pocket Boxers
Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.
Tetherball, or Do-Do
Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.
The Devil in the Studio
A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.
Fun on the Clothesline
A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.
Robbery
'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.
Chirgwin in His Humorous Business
Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall
The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at...
Rough Sea at Dover
Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.
Two AM; or, The Husband's Return
A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...
Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War
An Exciting Pillow Fight
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II
