Movies: George Albert Smith

London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others....

A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to demolish with pokes of his fingers. When the demolition of the house is completed, the film is shown...

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 Bioscope" by George Albert Smith and Charles Urban....

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men...

Man pulls out bad tooth, which is then shown in closeup....

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children....

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in...

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short....

Kinemacolor...

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window....

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp...

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes....

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act....

An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock....

A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process....

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife....

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots......

An old lady is seated at a table with her work basket and her cat washing its paws beside her. The old lady makes several attempts to thread a needle and a look of triumph appears on her face as she finally succeeds....

A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and a satisfactory agreement is made between the clown and the gentleman, and a score or so of persons ar...

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as he continues to drink....