George Albert Smith Movies

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of...

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

An adaptation of the folk tale.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is...

George Albert Smith's remake of Georges Méliès - Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) from 1896. This film is lost or never...

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...

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...

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

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

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the...

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.

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...

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

George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.

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

A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.

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...

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.