Direction: George Albert Smith

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Laura Bayley · George Albert Smith

Plot A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him. In the darkness of the tunnel, he...

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Laura Bayley · Tom Green

Plot British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a courting couple filmed in X-ray. The trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "contains one of...

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Dorothy Smith · Harold Smith · Laura Bayley

Plot In this picture you see Santa Claus enter the room from the fireplace and proceed to trim the tree. He then fills the stockings that were previously hung on the...

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Laura Bayley

Plot Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a mirror. Then, it's back to work....

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Harold Smith

Plot A girl looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Laura Bayley

Plot The setting was an inn run by ghosts. Wires were used to make objects move on their own, a technique of a nineteenth-century magician.

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Laura Bayley · Tom Green

Plot A man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important for being one of the earliest...

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot 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 he focuses on...

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young.

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and...

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Dorothy Smith · Harold Smith

Plot 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...

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Tom Green

Plot 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...

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a single shot close-up of two spiders trapped in an enclosure (not on a web as indicated in the...

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a test for his newly patented Kinemacolor system, which features a sequence of appropriately labelled Scottish tartan cloths, with...

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase of his new Kinemacolor system, which features a woman displaying assorted tartan cloths, both draped on her...

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Eva Bayley · Laura Bayley

Plot British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features the titular Miss Pimple receiving an unpleasant surprise on February 14.

Direction George Albert Smith

Cast Laura Bayley · Tom Green

Plot A child-crossing sweeper dies in the snow.

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot Kinemacolor publicity frequently drew the attention of the viewer to the quality of the colour blue in the films, but this was misleading. Kinemacolor was filmed through red and green...

Direction George Albert Smith

Plot View of the Grand Canal in Venice from a boat believed to have been made in either 1901 or 1904 and as part of the series “Through Italy with the...