UK Archives - Film Medium

A Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) George Albert Smith

A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.

That Fatal Sneeze (1907) Lewin Fitzhamon

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy retaliates by sneaking into the older man’s room and putting pepper in his handkerchief, hairbrush, and clothing. But things quickly get out of hand when the sneezing that results begins to disrupt the whole town.

The X-Ray Fiend (1897) George Albert Smith

A romantic couple is flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine. After the professor turning X-ray off the two have a dispute and break up.

The ‘?’ Motorist (1906) Walter R. Booth

A psycho motorist goes to extreme ldistance to evade the law, even to the point of interplanetary. His absurd travel ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.

Mary Jane’s Mishap (1903) George Albert Smith

George Albert Smith casts his wife as a housewife who is disappeared by lighting her oven with paraffin.

An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903) Walter R. Booth, Robert W. Paul

A man steps backward off the kerb, just as a horse-drawn cab turns the corner. He is knocked down and run over, the cabman trying to escape by driving away. A policeman and others chase the cab while the victim rises of his own accord and joins in the chase.

A Photographic Contortion (1901) James Williamson

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows the camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.