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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

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...

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

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...

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

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

An one of the two suriving sections of Urban's original nine-part, 2,500-ft documentary, an exceptionally observant view of London life.

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...

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...

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