It’s common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt – perhaps it’s all that caber-tossing. This ...

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

It’s one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal ...

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 ...

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

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is ...

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

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

A scene from Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. Despite the common belief, this is NOT the world’s first Dickens’ adaptation in cinema.

A child borrows his grandmother’s magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows ...

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine’s letter.

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

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 ...

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A ‘facial’ comedy by GA Smith.

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