British Mutoscope And Biograph Company Movies

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.

A parade in the Vatican.

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

The pope taking a twilight walk.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

Horatio Herbert Kitchener gets an enviable welcome on his return from the Second Boer War.

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...