George Albert Smith Movies

An adaptation of the folk tale.

An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the...

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

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new...

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.

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

Lovers are comically interrupted

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...

A bracing fight scene

Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

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...

A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.