1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
Tobogganing Down Devil's Heap
The model of a photographer keeps changing from a beautiful woman to an ugly tramp.
A Delusion
A magician performs various tricks.
Substitutions
An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique
Match boy saves mother and baby from drunken husband.
Nabbed by the Nipper
Climber and Guides Camping Out
A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...
The Ascent of Mont Blanc
Short film about a man embarking on and returing from war. A print survives at the BFI.
A Reservist Before and After the War
This advertisement shows a happy woman with her bicycle. A man rides up, sweaty from exertion, for his bike is much heavier than the woman's superior...
Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle
Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...
Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.
Sheffield United v Bury
A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...
The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
Toboggan Shuffles Race
This is one of four two-minute extracts from a two to three-hour procession, held to commemorate her legend in Coventry on the afternoon of 9th...
Lady Godiva Procession in Coventry
Reindeer Camp in Lapland
Nikolai II (1868-1918), the last Russian czar, son of Alexander III and Dagmar. He had been in Denmark on vacation with his parents several times....
The Emperor of Russia's Arrival in Elsinore
Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...
Arlequin et Méphistophélès
Choque de trenes
Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
