Charles Urban Trading Company Movies

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make...

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a...

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.

A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.

Punished for mistreating the family pets, a young boy uses his chemistry set to wreak revenge on his parents.

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

The 280 different views comprising this series depict sights along a route over the most important thoroughfares of London, not merely showing street...

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and...

A 1905 film by the Charles Urban Trading Company.

On september 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward...

Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits. Shot during the Russo Japanese war by...

In 1906, the Arlberg Railway, which connects the Austrian cities of Innsbruck and Bludenz, is the only east-west mountain railway in Austria. This...

This fragment comprises just over half of the original film and features a parade of partially-submerged submarines and destroyers launching...

A dog leads a detective to a robber's hideout and fetches the police.

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading...