Movies

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

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

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash. In this charming Hepworth actuality film, a crisply uniformed, no-nonsense nurse bounces a baby...

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and...

A cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure...

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...