George Albert Smith Movies

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film...

A bracing fight scene

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

Compilation of 7 short scenes: ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’; ‘Old Mother Hubbard’; ‘Little Miss Muffet’;...

A woman is shown various wallpaper samples, in a short displaying the Kinemacolour process

London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others.

The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

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...

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.

An early experiment in bringing colour to animation sees a bubble-blowing doll, a toy circus and a stubborn donkey revelling in two-tone glory.

An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock.

Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a mirror. Then,...

Kinemacolor

A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and...