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The Airship Destroyer (1909)
An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
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13
6.0
/161/
60
/9/
66
/9/
3.5
/712/

Grand Display of Brock's Fireworks at the Crystal Palace (1904)
An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, originally presented by Brock's at the coronation in 1902. The film is a cornucopia of colors, as it was originally a hand-painted film. The 2011 restoration has tried to revive the brilliance and the impact of colors through digital reproduction. The original film archival print is at the National Cinema Museum.
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7
5.5
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55
/12/
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3.4
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The Jester's Joke (1912)
A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a dog, she lets clowns appear; one female, and two male. The male clowns fight each other over the girl who gets changed over and over again by the jester.
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30
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Life in Jaffa (1905)
A 1905 film by the Charles Urban Trading Company.
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4.2
/6/
60
/1/

The Baffled Burglar (1907)
A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.
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5.0
/23/

A Trip Through British North Borneo (1907)
Showing the progress of the natives from barbarism to industrial development. This unique and beautiful series contains the best photographic results of two expeditions through British North Borneo. The expeditions penetrated 127 miles into the interior, some parts of which had never previously been trodden by white men, and the journey bristled with difficulties. The series illustrates not only the commercial enterprise of the British North Borneo Company, but also the quaint manners and strange customs of the natives.
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4.8
/11/
30
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Building and Operating a British Railway (1909)
Documentary about building a engine.
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5.5
/64/
60
/2/
53
/3/

Willie's Magic Wand (1907)
A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.
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4.6
/41/
60
/1/
45
/2/

Diabolo Nightmare (1907)
A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.
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10
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Building a British Railway: Crewe Railway Junction (1905)
Documentary short released in 1905.
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5.0
/14/

In and Through China: China of the Present Day (1908)
These extraordinary views of life and landscape in Beijing were filmed during the last years of China's Qing dynasty, before the 1911 Xinhai Revolution overthrew imperial rule. The focus is on everyday life, and the views of hawkers, laborers, traders, and artisans reveal the city’s vibrant street culture. Especially striking is the shot of a barber preening his client’s 'Manchu queue' hairstyle.
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5.1
/33/
56
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When the Devil Drives (1907)
The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make films in his own London garden.
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4.9
/11/
30
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Automobile Fête Before King Alfonso and Princess Ena (1906)
Automobile rally mounted as part of the wedding festivities of the Spanish King Alfonso and Princess Eva.
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4.1
/13/

Edge's Motor Boat. The Napier Minor (1904)
Powerboat racing was a brand-new sport in 1904. Selwyn Edge initially won the race off Cowes (Isle of Wight) in the British-made Napier Minor as a substitute for the Napier II, but was later disqualified. Clearly the filmmakers thought at the time that they were filming the victor.
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30
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Venice and the Grand Canal (1904)
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 Bioscope" by George Albert Smith and Charles Urban.
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4.4
/14/

Elephants Bathing in Ceylon River (1904)
Lomas, a talented photographer specializing in wildlife and hunting subjects, turned his hand to filming for Charles Urban, making several trips to the Far East, including Borneo. Here he is in Ceylon, showing mahouts bathing their elephants.
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4.4
/13/

Perzina's Troupe of Educated Monkeys (1904)
Austrian animal trainer Ernst Perzina puts his educated rhesus monkeys through their paces.
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30
/1/

The Wintry Alps (1903)
Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and Outing of the Ski Club.
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60
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Living London (1904)
An one of the two suriving sections of Urban's original nine-part, 2,500-ft documentary, an exceptionally observant view of London life.
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60
/1/

Siege and Surrender of Port Arthur (1905)
British documentary short released in 1905.
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40
/2/
100
/1/

Cervino 1901 (1903)
In 1953, in an old cabinet of a former photographer from Zermatt, a first mountaineering film was found. It was a silent film from the first era showing the ascent of the Matterhorn by a group of guides across the Hornli ridge. The film is attributed to the American Frederick Burlingham and dated 1901 and is therefore the first mountaineering film in history. The story of the discovery was also dressed in a certain aura of legend and mystery as it was told that the original copy of the film had been lost forever in a shipwreck in the Atlantic and was the only copy printed that remained. The film was renamed Cervin 1901 or Cervino 1901, and in 2014, after being restored again. But the truth is that this whole story, which has somehow held together throughout this period, is full of inaccuracies...
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5.6
/51/
40
/3/
40
/1/

Animated Cotton (1909)
It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and embroideries if this film are certainly animated in one sense, it is not through stop-motion animation. The time-consuming process of manipulating threads frame-by-frame is avoided by simply using reverse film techniques.
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5.3
/16/

Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913)
A considered lost film from 1913
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6.0
/13/

Fishing with Cormorants. Isle of Yeso, Japan (1911)
Early 20th century film footage of Japan.
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4.3
/19/
40
/2/
100
/1/

The Arlberg Railway (1906)
In 1906, the Arlberg Railway, which connects the Austrian cities of Innsbruck and Bludenz, is the only east-west mountain railway in Austria. This 340-second "ghost railroad ride" shows the view from the back of a train, though I'm not sure if it's heading east or west. This kind of film, in vogue at the time, is an intermediate form of short reality, which often showed a train engaging in a bend, and a feature documentary. Its editing is live, linear and temporal, and the cuts are very apparent. Indeed, the choices of where to place the cuts seem to have avoided the less populated stretches. There are plenty of buildings to see, even when the train is not at the station.
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4.0
/19/
30
/1/
50
/1/

Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway (1903)
20 scenes: The birth, life, marriage and death of Hiawatha.
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5.5
/88/
50
/5/
45
/5/

The Hand of the Artist (1906)
Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper and dispenses it in the form of confetti. (BFI)
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54
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5.8
/93/
50
/4/
47
/3/
3.2
/261/

Cheese Mites (1903)
A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To his horror, he finds it to be alive with mites, and, in disgust, leaves the table. Hundreds of mites resembling crabs are seen scurrying in all directions. A wonderful picture and a subject hitherto unthought of in animated photography. Notable for being the first science film made for the general public.
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60
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6.0
/103/
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/6/
50
/2/
3.4
/466/

Banks of the Nile (1911)
With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and pulley system cows climb skywards then disappear into the hold of the sailing vessel. On the bank, black-haired women rock back and forth, bursting out laughing and showing the first signs of going into a state of trance. Never-before filmed gestures and faces of the people of the Nile succeed one another, uprooted to an unknown, magical world. The Banks of the Nile is one of the first experiments of film in colour that uses the Kinemacolor process.
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6.6
/30/
62
/2/

A Canine Sherlock Holmes (1912)
A dog leads a detective to a robber's hideout and fetches the police.
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20
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King Edward VII Launches HMS Dreadnought from Portsmouth Dockyard (1906)
Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".
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3.0
/13/
40
/1/
50
/1/

Spider and the Fly (1903)
A beautiful young blonde woman in scanty attire is seen reclining in the center of a set of a spider web. A well-dressed young man passes in front of her. She attracts his attention and encourages him to approach her. At first he is reluctant but then goes up and kisses her hand.
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3.9
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30
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Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machines (1904)
It's one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal force lifts the gondolas up in the air.
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5.0
/8/

A Trip Around the Kentish Coast (1913)
After leaving the town of Margate, we are taken upon a trip along the coast, visiting Ramsgate Harbor and its splendid beach crowded with pleasure seekers, and then re-embarking, past the famous,. Dover Cliffs which are still such a terror to mariners.
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5.1
/16/
40
/1/

Modern China (1910)
A short documentary about China in the early 20th Century.
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A Visit to Whitby (1913)
This atmospheric silent film from 1913 shows scenes of Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay and Flamborough Head in Yorkshire at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Circulation of the Blood in the Frog’s Foot (1903)
Part of Charles Urban’s Unseen World programme (1903), this microcinematographic short begins with a frog swimming in a tank, then focuses on its webbed foot. The final section reveals a magnified view—about 500×—of blood coursing through the tiny veins, offering Edwardian audiences a vivid first glimpse of living circulation in motion.
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Procession of Boats on River, Burma (1905)
Images of boats on the river.
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Travel Scenes (1905)
Travels in Burma.
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4.2
/8/

A Juvenile Scientist (1907)
Punished for mistreating the family pets, a young boy uses his chemistry set to wreak revenge on his parents.
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Wales, England: Land of Castles and Waterfalls
Take a trip in time and space to Edwardian Britain, and travel along the North Wales coast. Starting in the walled city of Chester you hop on a train to Llandudno, mosey around a few castles, and take a horse-drawn carriage through Snowdonia. Clearly a holiday for the wealthier set, there's something delightfully intimate about the relationship between the camera and travellers that makes you feel part of the trip. An excellent silent travelogue from skilled producers of the early form.
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Entstehungsgeschichte der Fliege und ihre Gefahr für die Menschen (1910)
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Hackenschmidt-Rogers [The Great Wrestling Match] (1908)
Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and the American Joe Rogers. Originally filmed in February 1908 and produced by the well-known Charles Urban, this rare footage is a significant find that offers an authentic glimpse into the golden age of wrestling. The only known film footage of a wrestling match featuring the legendary Estonian wrestler Georg Hackenschmidt, who wins this two-round title match.
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Drill of the Reedham Orphans (1912)
Purely, Surrey orphanage fundraising event with children performing choreographed military-style drills, believed to be filmed somewhere between 1904 and 1912.
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Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought (1907)
This fragment comprises just over half of the original film and features a parade of partially-submerged submarines and destroyers launching torpedoes into netting rigged alongside the Dreadnought.
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The Waif and the Statue (1907)
A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.
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Execution of Li-Tang the Chunchus Chief of the Manchurian Bandits (1904)
Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits. Shot during the Russo Japanese war by the Charles Urban Trading Company. Charles Urban was formerly a partner with the Warwick Trading company who shot many newsreels of the day.
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Scenes on the Cornish Riviera (1912)
The Great Western Railway-sponsored tour of Cornwall, visiting Saltash, Looe, Polperro, Newquay, Truro, Falmouth, The Lizard, Penzance and St Ives, provides an amazing visual record of a long-gone era.


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