Warwick Trading Company Movies

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

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...

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.

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

An early short about fox hunting

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

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on 23r...

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

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.

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

Footage from the Boer War.

A view from the rear of a ship; A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea.

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

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy everyda...

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,...