Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth...

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...

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

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

Here we present a picture that simply convulses an audience with laughter. The scene opens in the bedroom of a hotel. A traveler appears, evidently a...

Three athletes make their way to wicker baskets that contain a mishmash of wacky costumes. They need to dress up as quickly as they can, and make...

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.