King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

An early short about fox hunting

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

The parade of carriages, costumed riders, and exotic animals passing over the bridge at Inverness, Scotland, has attracted a crowd, despite the rain.

A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs, Morthroe,...

A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.

George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading...

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase –...

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy...

A set of dancers from Algeria perform, though the footage oddly ends with Scottish dancers performing in traditional garb.

Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South...

Film produced by the Warwick Trading Company.