From Charles Urban Trading Company Studios


  • 1909
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    The Airship Destroyer

    The Airship Destroyer

    6.00 1909 HD

    An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

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  • 1904
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    Grand Display of Brock's Fireworks at the Crystal Palace

    Grand Display of Brock's Fireworks at the Crystal Palace

    6.56 1904 HD

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

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  • 1912
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    The Jester's Joke

    The Jester's Joke

    6.50 1912 HD

    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...

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  • 1907
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    The Waif and the Statue

    The Waif and the Statue

    1 1907 HD

    A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.

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    When the Devil Drives

    When the Devil Drives

    1 1907 HD

    The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make...

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    Animated Cotton

    Animated Cotton

    4.00 1909 HD

    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...

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  • 1901
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    Cervino 1901

    Cervino 1901

    10.00 1901 HD

    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...

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  • 1907
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    Willie's Magic Wand

    Willie's Magic Wand

    5.30 1907 HD

    A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.

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  • 1906
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    The Hand of the Artist

    The Hand of the Artist

    4.90 1906 HD

    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...

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    A Juvenile Scientist

    A Juvenile Scientist

    1 1907 HD

    Punished for mistreating the family pets, a young boy uses his chemistry set to wreak revenge on his parents.

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    Diabolo Nightmare

    Diabolo Nightmare

    4.50 1907 HD

    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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  • 1903
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    The Cheese Mites

    The Cheese Mites

    4.70 1903 HD

    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...

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  • 1911
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    Banks of the Nile

    Banks of the Nile

    5.00 1911 HD

    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...

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    A Canine Sherlock Holmes

    A Canine Sherlock Holmes

    6.20 1912 HD

    A dog leads a detective to a robber's hideout and fetches the police.

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  • 1906
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    The Arlberg Railway

    The Arlberg Railway

    10.00 1906 HD

    In 1906, the Arlberg Railway, which connects the Austrian cities of Innsbruck and Bludenz, is the only east-west mountain railway in Austria. This...

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    Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought

    Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought

    1 1907 HD

    This fragment comprises just over half of the original film and features a parade of partially-submerged submarines and destroyers launching...

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  • 1904
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    Living London

    Living London

    1 1904 HD

    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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    Execution of Li-Tang the Chunchus Chief of the Manchurian Bandits

    Execution of Li-Tang the Chunchus Chief of the Manchurian Bandits

    1 1904 HD

    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...

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  • 1907
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    Naval Attack on Portsmouth

    Naval Attack on Portsmouth

    1 1907 HD

    A battle between two forces takes place. There's no information on this 4-minute film aside from the fact that it was available from Charles Urban's...

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  • 1910
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    Modern China

    Modern China

    1 1910 HD

    A short documentary about China in the early 20th Century.

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