Charles Urban Trading Company Movies

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 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...

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

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1. Panoramic View from the Acropolis. A fine view of modern Athens. 2. Mar's Hill. Probable site of St. Paul preaching to the Athenians. 3. A View of...

The goats of the Grimsel are almost as famous as the Hospice itself, and form a most attractive picture among the bleak and desolate surroundings.

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

A scene of harvesting hay on the great winter playground. The group of busy reapers, with hand scythes, in the foreground, the Swiss maids who...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, filmed in 1906 the ascent to several towers in the Cinque Torri area in...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.