Warwick Trading Company Movies

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to...

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers...

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

An early short about fox hunting

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

Footage from the Boer War.

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs,...

A view from the rear of a ship; A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea.

George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading...

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase...