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British silent short films

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Roundhay Garden Scene
1888 film by Louis Le Prince
Alice in Wonderland
1903 film by Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow
London's Trafalgar Square
1890 film
Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses
1889 short film by William Friese-Greene
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
1888 film by Louis Le Prince
Number 13
1922 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Santa Claus
1898 film by George Albert Smith
How It Feels to Be Run Over
1900 film by Cecil Hepworth
The X-Rays
1897 film by George Albert Smith
Grandma's Reading Glass
1900 film directed by George Albert Smith
Rough Sea at Dover
1895 film
Accordion Player
1888 film by Louis Le Prince
The Magic Sword
1901 film by Walter R. Booth
Fire!
1901 film
Opening of the Kiel Canal
1895 film by Birt Acres
King John
1899 film by Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The Little Match Seller
1902 film by James Williamson
The Miller and the Sweep
1897 film by George Albert Smith
The Derby
1895 silent film directed by Birt Acres
The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race
1895 film by Birt Acres
Upside Down; or, the Human Flies
1899 film by Walter R. Booth
Footpads
Footpads is an 1895 British short silent drama film that was directed by Robert W. Paul. It features a top-hatted pedestrian against a rainy London backdrop, who is assaulted by three footpads and rescued by a passing policeman.
Stop Thief!
1901 film by James Williamson
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
1895 film by Birt Acres
Photographing a Ghost
1898 film by George Albert Smith
A Switchback Railway
1898 film by Robert W. Paul
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
1901 British film directed by Walter R. Booth
A Sea Cave Near Lisbon
1896 film directed by Henry Short
A Daring Daylight Burglary
1903 film by Frank Mottershaw
The Acrobatic Fly
1910 film by F. Percy Smith
A Visit to the Seaside
1908 short film by George Albert Smith
The Boxing Kangaroo
1896 film by Birt Acres
Blackfriars Bridge
1896 film by Robert W. Paul
Undressing Extraordinary
1901 film by Walter R. Booth
The Airship Destroyer
1909 film by Walter R. Booth
Comic Costume Race
1896 film by Robert W. Paul
The Call of Youth
1921 film by Hugh Ford
Runaway Match
1903 film by Alf Collins
The Haunted Castle
1897 film by George Albert Smith
After Dark
1915 film by Warwick Buckland
A Tale of Two Cities
1922 film by Walter Courtney Rowden
The Chimes
1914 film by Thomas Bentley
Desperate Poaching Affray
1903 film by William Haggar
Princess Clementina
1911 film by Will Barker
Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest
1896 film directed by Birt Acres
Living Wigan
1902 film by Sagar Mitchell
Army Life; or, How Soldiers Are Made: Mounted Infantry
1900 British propaganda film directed by Robert W. Paul
Kidnapping by Indians
1899 film
Midshipman Easy
1915 film by Maurice Elvey
The Man with the Twisted Lip
1921 short film by Maurice Elvey
Old St. Paul's
1914 film by Wilfred Noy
A Park Lane Scandal
1915 film by Warwick Buckland
Scrooge
1913 film by Leedham Bantock
Esmeralda
1922 short film by Edwin J. Collins
How to Stop a Motor Car
1902 film by Percy Stow
A Canine Sherlock Holmes
1912 film directed by Stuart Kinder
The Cheese Mites
1903 film by F. Martin Duncan
Morecambe Church Lads' Brigade at Drill
1901 film by James Kenyon
The Hand of the Artist
1906 film by Walter R. Booth
To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
1909 film by F. Percy Smith