The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

A playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to...

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

A panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.

A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.

The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from...

The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to...