Most Viewed From British Mutoscope and Biograph Company

"The Worthing Station is some distance from the shore, and whenever there is a wreck the life-boat is dragged to the scene on a huge truck drawn by...

A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont...

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

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

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women...

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

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

Military in Germany.

Dan Leno and his wife celebrating the anniversary of their wedding day.

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many...

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 member of the Queen's Guards falls for the charms of a young woman. (Viewable at BFI Mediatheque).

"This is the last ceremonious public appearance of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. The picture was taken in Phoenix Park, Dublin, April 4th, 1900, and...

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

Showing the Austrian Emperor laying the corner stone of a new military barracks.