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t's one of those pageants from history, in which Roman centurions fight caveman with halberds, Queen Elizabeth arrives in a carriage, and another...

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...

Part of Charles Urban’s Unseen World programme (1903), this microcinematographic short begins with a frog swimming in a tank, then focuses on...

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...

Short scientific documentary, part of "The Unseen World" series.

Lomas, a talented photographer specializing in wildlife and hunting subjects, turned his hand to filming for Charles Urban, making several trips to...

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...

Travels in Burma.

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...

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...

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Originally it was called White City because when it opened, all the buildings were painted white. It was a fairgrounds, intended to celebrate the...

The Great Western Railway-sponsored tour of Cornwall, visiting Saltash, Looe, Polperro, Newquay, Truro, Falmouth, The Lizard, Penzance and St Ives,...

The Tommy Burns vs James 'Gunner' Moir boxing match.

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...

Images of boats on the river.

Automobile rally mounted as part of the wedding festivities of the Spanish King Alfonso and Princess Eva.

Austrian animal trainer Ernst Perzina puts his educated rhesus monkeys through their paces.

It's the view out of a railroad car near the engine as it navigates among a choice of tracks and takes off through the countryside.

These extraordinary views of life and landscape in Beijing were filmed during the last years of China's Qing dynasty, before the 1911 Xinhai...

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...

t's one of those pageants from history, in which Roman centurions fight caveman with halberds, Queen Elizabeth arrives in a carriage, and another...

Part of Charles Urban’s Unseen World programme (1903), this microcinematographic short begins with a frog swimming in a tank, then focuses on...

Short scientific documentary, part of "The Unseen World" series.