The Coronation of Edward VII

The Coronation of Edward VII

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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The Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.

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The World, the Flesh and the Devil

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

An intensely unhappy woman hatches a plot to switch the babies of a poor family and a rich family. But the nurse hired to pull off this transfer...

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The Aerial Submarine

The Aerial Submarine

Using a futuristic submarine, pirates kidnap a young couple, torpedo a passenger ship, travel under the sea to salvage bullion, then make their...

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Hunting the Red Deer, With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds

Hunting the Red Deer, With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds

Documentary about a hunting party.

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The Arlberg Railway

The Arlberg Railway

In 1906, the Arlberg Railway, which connects the Austrian cities of Innsbruck and Bludenz, is the only east-west mountain railway in Austria. This...

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The Birth of a Flower

The Birth of a Flower

"Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied...

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Varieties of Sweet Peas

Varieties of Sweet Peas

An early British Kinemacolor short, in which delicate tones and shades of color are beautifully reproduced in examples of highly cultivated sweet...

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Britain Prepared

Britain Prepared

Documentary film about the military preparations of the United Kingdom in World War I. It includes scenes of military training of new recruits in...

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Fight for the Dardanelles

Fight for the Dardanelles

The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various...

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Venice and the Grand Canal

Venice and the Grand Canal

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...

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The Aerial Anarchists

The Aerial Anarchists

Anarchists build a super aircraft and bomb a railway, a fort and St. Paul's.

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Hackenschmidt-Rogers [The Great Wrestling Match]

Hackenschmidt-Rogers [The Great Wrestling Match]

Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and...

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Banks of the Nile

Banks of the Nile

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...

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Fording the River

Fording the River

Kinemacolor

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Trilby and Svengali

Trilby and Svengali

British adaptation of Trilby filmed in Kinemacolor. Presumed lost.

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The Pageant Procession

The Pageant Procession

From With Our King and Queen Through India

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Armenia, Cradle of Humanity

Armenia, Cradle of Humanity

A film by Charles Urban

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A Dash to the North Pole

A Dash to the North Pole

This film footage of the Ziegler North Pole expedition was reissued in Britain by Charles Urban in 1909 when all things Polar were of almost...

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Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought

Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought

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

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