George Albert Smith Trailers
The Kiss in the Tunnel Trailer
Along with his better-known French counterpart Georges Méliès, George Albert Smith, usually credited as G.A. Smith, was one of the first filmmakers to explore fictional and fantastic themes, often using surprisingly sophisticated special effects. His background was ideal – an established portrait photographer, he also had a long-standing interest in show business, running a tourist attraction in his native Brighton featuring a fortune teller. His films were among the first to feature such innovations as superimposition (Smith patented a double-exposure system in 1897), close-ups and scene transitions involving wipes and focus pulls. He also patented Kinemacolor – the world's first commercial cinema color system--in 1906, which was extremely successful for a time, despite the special equipment required to project it
Most Popular George Albert Smith Trailers
Total trailers found: 57
01 September 1897
Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp
07 July 1897
Lovers are comically interrupted
01 September 1910
A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.
01 January 1898
Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a losh
01 January 1897
A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one of the world’s more bizarre railway experiments.
30 November 1897
Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.
22 September 1897
Most movie fans know that the first filmmakers liked to shoot trains entering stations. This example by Sussex film pioneer George Albert Smith illustrates why.
30 June 1897
In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle.
08 August 1900
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography.
30 September 1900
An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.
01 September 1900
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 focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away.
01 January 1904
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 Bioscope" by George Albert Smith and Charles Urban.
25 April 1904
It's one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal force lifts the gondolas up in the air.
01 August 1898
An adaptation of the folk tale.
01 August 1900
Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife.
06 December 1903
Girl dreams of Dick Whittington, Robinson Crusoe, Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Red Riding Hood.
01 September 1897
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 he continues to drink.
10 September 1900
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 his fingers.
23 May 1906
It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing.
01 August 1900
A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.
01 August 1897
Master kisses maid behind a blanket on the clothes line and is seen by his wife.
01 September 1909
A woman is shown various wallpaper samples, in a short displaying the Kinemacolour process
01 January 1912
An early experiment in bringing colour to animation sees a bubble-blowing doll, a toy circus and a stubborn donkey revelling in two-tone glory.
01 January 1903
London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others.
24 September 1897
A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.
04 January 1900
A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.
01 August 1898
The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.
31 December 1903
A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten.
01 November 1902
Compilation of 7 short scenes: ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’; ‘Old Mother Hubbard’; ‘Little Miss Muffet’; ‘Goosey Gander’; ‘Jack and Jill’; ‘Old Woman in a Shoe’; ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’.
01 December 1908
The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of Brighton, showing people doing everyday activities.
01 September 1898
Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.
01 February 1900
An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock.
13 October 1898
Man dresses up as a woman, and the film is reversed.
30 November 1899
Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel.
14 August 1908
Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new Kinemacolor system, which features a woman displaying assorted tartan cloths, both draped on her body and waved semaphore-style.
01 November 1900
A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird.
01 June 1901
Girl gives spoonful of milk to kitten. (Cut-in close-up) [The British Film Catalogue]
04 April 1903
Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face.
09 August 1902
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.
01 January 1901
George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading Company, including this one.
04 January 1902
A bracing fight scene
11 December 1901
A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House. Despite the common belief, this is NOT the world's first Dickens' adaptation in cinema.
01 August 1901
Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.
25 October 1899
A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city.
01 January 1904
An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, originally presented by Brock's at the coronation in 1902.
02 January 1900
Well did you ever?
Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.
06 December 1897
A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...
01 October 1897
A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.
04 June 1902
A boy releases a mouse and frightens a model.
09 March 1910
Kinemacolor
04 January 1900
A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.
24 April 1898
George Smith's picture of the crowds out for a stroll on what I imagine is Brighton Pier.
04 July 1902
Man pulls out bad tooth, which is then shown in closeup.
01 January 1898
Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.
01 January 1906
A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.
07 July 2023
A collection of early British Films from the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Films include: Brighton Seagoing Electric Car (1897), The Inexhaustible Cab (1899), From Dalmeny to Dunfermline, Scotland via the Firth of Forth Bridge (series) (1899), Review of Lord George Sanger's Circus by the Queen (series) (1899), Sanger Circus Passing Through Inverness (1900), The “Poly” Paper Chase (1900), The Wintry Alps (series) (1903), An Affair of Honor (1904), Perzina's Troupe of Educated Monkeys (1904), Elephants Bathing in Ceylon River (1904), [Drill of the Reedham Orphans] (c.
07 June 1900
An old lady is seated at a table with her work basket and her cat washing its paws beside her. The old lady makes several attempts to thread a needle and a look of triumph appears on her face as she finally succeeds.
