Most Viewed From Warwick Trading Company

An early short about fox hunting

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...

British documentary short released in 1905.

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase...

The parade of carriages, costumed riders, and exotic animals passing over the bridge at Inverness, Scotland, has attracted a crowd, despite the rain.

Film produced by the Warwick Trading Company.

Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.

A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.

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....

Firemen are awakened by an alarm, drive through London and rescue fire victims.

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

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...

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

Several scenes of Sanger’s Circus parading through Windsor Great Park after meeting Queen Victoria on the terrace at Windsor Castle. This scene...

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

Film of George V's Delhi Durbar, the first attended by a British sovereign. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy...

Footage from the Boer War.