Mas vistas Desde Charles Urban Trading Company

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...

Automobile rally mounted as part of the wedding festivities of the Spanish King Alfonso and Princess Eva.

Powerboat racing was a brand-new sport in 1904. Selwyn Edge initially won the race off Cowes (Isle of Wight) in the British-made Napier Minor as a...

Purely, Surrey orphanage fundraising event with children performing choreographed military-style drills, believed to be filmed somewhere between 1904...

Lomas, a talented photographer specializing in wildlife and hunting subjects, turned his hand to filming for Charles Urban, making several trips to...

Austrian animal trainer Ernst Perzina puts his educated rhesus monkeys through their paces.

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...

Originally it was called White City because when it opened, all the buildings were painted white. It was a fairgrounds, intended to celebrate the...

The Tommy Burns vs James 'Gunner' Moir boxing match.

It's the view out of a railroad car near the engine as it navigates among a choice of tracks and takes off through the countryside.

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

t's one of those pageants from history, in which Roman centurions fight caveman with halberds, Queen Elizabeth arrives in a carriage, and another...

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...

After leaving the town of Margate, we are taken upon a trip along the coast, visiting Ramsgate Harbor and its splendid beach crowded with pleasure...

The Great Western Railway-sponsored tour of Cornwall, visiting Saltash, Looe, Polperro, Newquay, Truro, Falmouth, The Lizard, Penzance and St Ives,...

These extraordinary views of life and landscape in Beijing were filmed during the last years of China's Qing dynasty, before the 1911 Xinhai...

Showing the progress of the natives from barbarism to industrial development. This unique and beautiful series contains the best photographic results...

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".