Charles Urban Movies

"Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied to...

The 280 different views comprising this series depict sights along a route over the most important thoroughfares of London, not merely showing street...

An early British Kinemacolor short, in which delicate tones and shades of color are beautifully reproduced in examples of highly cultivated sweet pea...

An intensely unhappy woman hatches a plot to switch the babies of a poor family and a rich family. But the nurse hired to pull off this transfer...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

British adaptation of Trilby filmed in Kinemacolor. Presumed lost.

Anarchists build a super aircraft and bomb a railway, a fort and St. Paul's.

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.

Documentary about a hunting party.

Using a futuristic submarine, pirates kidnap a young couple, torpedo a passenger ship, travel under the sea to salvage bullion, then make their...

Documentary film about the military preparations of the United Kingdom in World War I. It includes scenes of military training of new recruits in...

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...

The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various...

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...

Kinemacolor

"A series of films taken during a difficult and dangerous ascent of the Jungfrau;, showing views of the climbers at an height of over 13,000 feet....

This picture, taken from Thorneycroft's Yard, shows the two boats about twelve lenghts apart - a state of things owing to terrible weather in which...

Kinemacolor

Documentary short released in 1911.