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16
5.1
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47
/14/
46
/24/
2.9
/702/

The Coronation of Edward VII (1902)
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.
poster
50
11
5.2
/166/
41
/13/
47
/12/
3.1
/635/

The House That Jack Built (1900)
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 in reverse, and the little building comes back to its original form in a most marvellous manner.
poster
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60
/1/

Weary Willie and Tired Tim: The Gunpowder Plot (1903)
Tramps stick a hot poker in a barrel labelled beer but containing gunpowder.
poster
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5.1
/68/
60
/1/
30
/2/

Will Evans, the Musical Eccentric (1899)
N/A
poster
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5.1
/48/

Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria (1902)
N/A
poster
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4.1
/30/
50
/1/
50
/1/

Troop Train Conveying the Seaforth Highlanders Across the Modder River (1899)
A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each end, passes over a temporary bridge erected over the Modder river; Seaforth Highlanders are riding in coal trucks and the train moves towards the camera.
poster
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3.5
/29/
30
/1/
75
/2/

Lancers Under the Earl of Airlie Fording the Modder River (1899)
Footage from the Boer War.
poster
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50
/2/

Lord Roberts Leaving For South Africa (1899)
An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on 23rd December 1899, where he commanded British forces for a year in the Second Boer War. The ship in this film is the RMS Dunottar Castle. Going with Roberts is his chief of staff, Lord Kitchener, whose future role as Secretary Of State for War during World War One awaits him. This film was produced and distributed by the Warwick Trading Company, a London based company at its peak at this time, involved in the majority of British films.The Warwick Trading Company specialised in travel, reportage and actuality films and had substantial catalogues. Charles Urban had taken over as managing director in 1897 and was in that role when this film was produced. According to the BFI programme entry, the company had a large amount of resources already in South Africa. This meant they could capture historic moments as part of its Boer War coverage.
poster
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3.9
/17/
43
/3/
60
/1/

Tramway Ride Through the Streets of Norwich (1901)
Shows the streets of Norwich filmed from the upper storey of a moving tram in 1901.
poster
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3.6
/23/
50
/1/

The Australian Mounted Rifle Volunteers (1900)
Ground level view of a column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street in Cape Town watched by enthusiastic crowds.
poster
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5.6
/47/
43
/3/

Nankin Road, Shanghai (1901)
An extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai over a hundred years ago - a true melting pot of cultures. Today the city's main shopping hub, Nanjing Road is here bustling with crowds of Chinese and Europeans and patrolled by Sikhs who made up an important part of the international police force. It is the only known surviving example of the film reportage shot by British war correspondent Joe Rosenthal during his coverage of the Boxer Rebellion in China between 1900 and 1901.
poster
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30
/1/
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Algerian Dances (1902)
A set of dancers from Algeria perform, though the footage oddly ends with Scottish dancers performing in traditional garb.
poster
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30
/1/

Delhi Durbar (1902)
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
poster
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60
/1/

The "Poly" Paper Chase (1900)
The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase – a gruelling cross-country race in which the “hares” lay a paper trail for the “hounds”.
poster
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50
/1/

Sanger Circus Passing Through Inverness (1900)
The parade of carriages, costumed riders, and exotic animals passing over the bridge at Inverness, Scotland, has attracted a crowd, despite the rain.
poster
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60
/1/

The Great City Fire (1903)
Firemen are awakened by an alarm, drive through London and rescue fire victims.
poster
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40
/1/

A War Balloon and Transport Crossing the Vaal River (1900)
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 Africa during the Boer War. Fording the river takes time, with so many ox- and mule-drawn wagons and an unwieldy observation balloon to boot. This footage was shot by London-born Joseph Rosenthal for the Warwick Trading Company - one of many films he made during the conflict.
poster
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60
/1/

Siege and Surrender of Port Arthur (1905)
British documentary short released in 1905.
poster
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4.3
/28/
50
/1/

The Kiddies and the Rabbits (1904)
Kids playing with rabbits.
poster
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3.9
/26/
50
/1/

Little Miss Lillian (1902)
Little Miss Lillian is Lillian Graham, billed as the youngest prima ballerina in the world. She appears in four different costumes, doing four dances, and the transition is handled by movie magic, stopping the camera and starting it again when costume and dance have changed.
poster
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4.1
/33/
50
/1/
60
/1/

Scenes on Mr. Smit's Ostrich Farm (1900)
Scenes on an ostrich farm, filmed in Natal during the Boer War.
poster
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3.4
/41/
20
/1/
30
/2/

Churned Waters (1899)
A view from the rear of a ship; A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea.
poster
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30
/1/

Major Wilson’s Last Stand (1899)
A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.
poster
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3.8
/17/
50
/1/

Japanese Funeral (1904)
Early 20th century film footage of Japan.
poster
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4.2
/25/
65
/2/
60
/1/

Japanese Schoolchildren (1901)
Film produced by the Warwick Trading Company.
poster
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3.3
/15/
35
/2/

Fox Hunting (1906)
An early short about fox hunting
poster
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3.9
/15/
57
/4/
60
/1/

Panorama of the Paris Exhibition No. 3 (1900)
An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.
poster
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20
/1/

Ship at Sea (1898)
The power of moving photography is exploited in this early film, not to dazzle audiences' eyes but to turn their stomachs. The camera is mounted on the bow of a ship ploughing forward through a squall, and as the boat lurches up and down, the image does too - meaning that the viewer experiences the (unpleasant) sensation of movement too. The canny composition means that the frame contains both the ship and the waves, each moving in different directions.
poster
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3.0
/14/
40
/2/

Ride on the Peak Tramway (1900)
Take an exhilarating ride on one of the most spectacular rail journeys in the world, the Hong Kong Peak Tram. The route opened in 1888, and this 'phantom ride' (a popular early film genre for which the camera was mounted on a moving vehicle) offers glimpses of the harbour and lower Hong Kong in the distance as you descend from 400 meters. But as a funicular railway, the most heartstopping moment is the sight of the upward tram arriving on what looks like a collision course...
poster
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4.4
/53/
37
/4/
40
/1/

The Kidnapped Child (1904)
As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a carriage. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage. Soon afterwards, another mother is playing with two children in the park, and when she leaves one of them unattended, her child is also seized by the same woman. These are only two of a number of children that an unscrupulous couple has captured for their own purposes.
poster
49
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5.3
/92/
50
/1/
51
/7/
3.2
/219/

View from an Engine Front: Barnstaple (1898)
A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.
poster
53
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5.4
/164/
55
/4/
40
/3/
3.2
/303/

Panorama of Calcutta (1899)
One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?
poster
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3.3
/12/
50
/3/
60
/1/

Visit to Pompeii (1901)
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 Company, including this one. The long panning shots of Pompeii linger respectfully, as a tourist would, before the camera finally raises its eye to the mighty volcano looming in the distance beyond.
poster
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60
/1/

State Entry into Delhi of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy (1903)
Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.
poster
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3.8
/31/
40
/1/

Surrender of Kroonstad to Lord Roberts (1900)
Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.
poster
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4.8
/76/
65
/2/
35
/2/

View from an Engine Front: Ilfracombe (1898)
A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs, Morthroe, Ilfracombe Incline and station.
poster
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5.3
/13/
70
/1/
80
/1/

Round Brussels in 10 Minutes (1908)
Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy everyday life in the metropolis as it happens on the street (including Boulevard Anspach, Rue de la Loi, Boulevard Emile Jacqmain), in the parks (Brussels Park and Parc du Cinquantenaire) and on the markets (including Grand Place). The iconic buildings feature extensively, buildings such as the Bourse, the Law Courts, St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels' City Hall and the Parliament. After the tram ride through the Forêt de Soignes to the Congo Museum in Tervuren, the film ends with panoramic images of the city.
poster
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3.7
/29/
20
/1/
40
/1/

Sir George White Leaving the London Hippodrome (1900)
Crowds at the entrance to the London Hippodrome await the departure of Sir George White. He emerges in company with Mr Cook, the manager of the theatre, and is immediately surrounded by the enthusiastic crowd. Men wave their hats in the air. Policemen try to keep the crowd under control. Sir George White was famous as the defender of Ladysmith, and was invalided home.
poster
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3.4
/34/
20
/1/
25
/2/

The 'Roslin Castle' (Troopship) Leaving for South Africa (1899)
Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers of troops on board wave back.
poster
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3.7
/35/
40
/1/
50
/1/

First Northumberland Fusiliers Digging Entrenchments (1899)
The Passing of the Armoured Train - A large group of British soldiers are seen digging entrenchment's under the supervision of officers. A brief second shot shows an armoured train going past. The first film of British troops at the front taken during the war.
poster
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3.2
/34/
20
/2/
25
/2/

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton (1899)
Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the camera. Sir Redvers pauses to be introduced to one of the ship's officers before embarking.
poster
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3.8
/31/
30
/1/
50
/1/

Dispersing the Troops at Windsor After Parade (1899)
The dispersal of the Companies following the review of the 1st and 2nd Life Guards by Queen Victoria at Spital Barracks. The Companies, drawn up in single file, march towards the rear of the barracks before dispersal.
poster
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3.5
/34/
30
/1/
50
/1/

Colonial Troops and Cavalry (1899)
Procession of suspiciously neat troops. This film has long been recorded in the NFTVA records as being of the Boer War, however it is probably film of the "Savage South Africa" touring theatrical troupe which visited Britain in 1899, recreating spectacular scenes from African wars.
poster
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3.2
/26/
33
/3/
35
/4/

The Latest News (1904)
A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.
poster
45
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4.8
/226/
35
/7/
37
/9/
3.0
/341/

The Death of Poor Joe (1901)
A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.
poster
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Entry of Lord Roberts Into Pretoria (1900)
Actuality film recording the entry of British Commander-in-Chief Lord Roberts into Pretoria during the Second Boer War. The scenes show the victorious march and ceremonial arrival of Roberts and his troops, commemorating a key moment in the British campaign.
poster
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Lord Roberts Hoisting the Union Jack at Pretoria (1900)
Actuality film of the British Commander-in-Chief Lord Roberts presiding over the raising of the Union Jack in Pretoria during the Second Boer War. The scene symbolizes Britain’s military victory and the annexation of the Transvaal capital.
poster
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Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1900)
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 the race was rowed. It is a very comprehensive view of the contest and a good photograph despite the very trying conditions under which it was produced.


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