A burglar commits a homicide during a robbery. He is arrested and forced to cope with serious consequences.

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe,...

A political quarrel between two men that ends in laughter.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

Shot against a painted backdrop of river with town on other bank & mountains behind. Throwing medicine ball while group of men watch, at least one...

Here we see one of the methods employed in the search for gold, where water is scarce. We see the workmen using the water over and over again in the...

This subject is in three scenes, showing beautiful dissolving effects. Scene 3. The Man Behind that Teacup shows Admiral Sampson the centre of...

This is a great historical event. Our cameras were stationed in the center of the Esplanade looking toward the Main Approach to the Pan-American...

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

Shows a suburbanite asleep in bed. He discovers he has overslept himself, and jumps out of bed.

One long traveling shot through a sea front lined with tourists, workers, and sundry others.

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some...

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...

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

A short film

In this picture we present a wonderful and life-like likeness of President McKinley.

A conjurer vanishes animals then vanishes himself.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

The scene opens showing Reuben and his best girl looking for a quiet place to spoon. A photographer enters and suggests taking their pictures.

This scene was taken shortly after the completion of the railroad in 1899. The impression received by the audience is that of riding on the pilot of...

Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York travelled to New Zealand in 1901 to thank New Zealanders for their contribution to the Boer War. Only a...

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

Photographed: August 19, 1901. Location: Broadway and 14th Street, New York, N.Y. Camera: Arthur W. Marvin. Duration: 0:22 at 15 fps. Biograph...

The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film...

This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.

Thousands of people got together on Easter Monday for the traditional egg rolling.

First comes the Chief's sleigh with old-fashioned side runners, containing the Chief and his driver. Next comes a chemical engine mounted on a stout...

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

This picture shows the miners washing out gold by what is known as the sluice box method. Here we see the miners shovelling from both sides the soil...

Here we have recorded a very novel scene, the camera having been placed in the basket of the captive balloon at the Pan-American Exposition...

Footage of Edward VII in the funeral procession of his mother, Queen Victoria.

In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm...

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal.

Evocative film of the passengers and crew of a ship docked at Liverpool.