Warwick Trading Company Movies

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

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...

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

Tramps stick a hot poker in a barrel labelled beer but containing gunpowder.

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers...

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

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

Film produced by the Warwick Trading Company.

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

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...

The reception to the future King Edward VII upon his arrival to Edinburgh in 1899.

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

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...

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

A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each end, passes over a temporary bridge erected over the Modder river; Seaforth Highlanders are...