George Albert Smith Movies

London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others.

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new...

An early experiment in bringing colour to animation sees a bubble-blowing doll, a toy circus and a stubborn donkey revelling in two-tone glory.

An adaptation of the folk tale.

A woman is shown various wallpaper samples, in a short displaying the Kinemacolour process

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

A bracing fight scene

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film...

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

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...

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.

View of the Grand Canal in Venice from a boat believed to have been made in either 1901 or 1904 and as part of the series "Through Italy with the...

The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.

A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and...

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...