Warwick Trading Company Movies

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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

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

Several scenes of Sanger’s Circus parading through Windsor Great Park after meeting Queen Victoria on the terrace at Windsor Castle. This scene...

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

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...

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...

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

A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.

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

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

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs,...

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

Warwick. Railway actuality footage

A beautiful phantom ride across the Firth of Forth from Dalmeny near Edinburgh to Dunfermline, crossing the famous Forth Bridge, then less than a...

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South...

An early short about fox hunting

Film of George V's Delhi Durbar, the first attended by a British sovereign. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".