George Albert Smith Movies

A boy releases a mouse and frightens a model.

Girl gives spoonful of milk to kitten. (Cut-in close-up) [The British Film Catalogue]

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...

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as...

An old lady is seated at a table with her work basket and her cat washing its paws beside her. The old lady makes several attempts to thread a needle...

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

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

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

Lovers are comically interrupted

Man pulls out bad tooth, which is then shown in closeup.

A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one...

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

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

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

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

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.

A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.

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