From Charles Urban Trading Company Studios
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1909
The Airship Destroyer
The Airship Destroyer6.00 1909 HD
An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
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1904
Grand Display of Brock's Fireworks at the Crystal Palace
Grand Display of Brock's Fireworks at the Crystal Palace6.56 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
The Jester's Joke
The Jester's Joke6.50 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
The Waif and the Statue
The Waif and the Statue1 1907 HD
A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.
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1907
When the Devil Drives
When the Devil Drives1 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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1909
Animated Cotton
Animated Cotton4.00 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
Cervino 1901
Cervino 190110.00 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
Willie's Magic Wand
Willie's Magic Wand5.30 1907 HD
A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.
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1906
The Hand of the Artist
The Hand of the Artist4.90 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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1907
A Juvenile Scientist
A Juvenile Scientist1 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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1907
Diabolo Nightmare
Diabolo Nightmare4.50 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
The Cheese Mites
The Cheese Mites4.70 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
Banks of the Nile
Banks of the Nile5.00 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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1912
A Canine Sherlock Holmes
A Canine Sherlock Holmes6.20 1912 HD
A dog leads a detective to a robber's hideout and fetches the police.
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1906
The Arlberg Railway
The Arlberg Railway10.00 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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1907
Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought
Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought1 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
Living London
Living London1 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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1904
Execution of Li-Tang the Chunchus Chief of the Manchurian Bandits
Execution of Li-Tang the Chunchus Chief of the Manchurian Bandits1 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
Naval Attack on Portsmouth
Naval Attack on Portsmouth1 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
Modern China
Modern China1 1910 HD
A short documentary about China in the early 20th Century.