Albert E. Smith Movies

This building and machinery supplied the electric power and electric light for the entire city of Galveston, including the car system. The building,...

The Midnight Cabaret is a 1923 American film directed by Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.

Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he treats them like satchels to get them out of his way. A...

A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and...

This is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death. The place is completely dismantled. In addition to the orphanage is shown...

The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday,...

As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...

This picture shows the remains of one of the docks, several freight cars being piled one upon the other, while the most interesting part of the...

Shows the efficiency of modern life-saving methods and apparatus now in use by the fire departments. Shows the front of a building burning and two...

More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to become a horror movie favourite: the chamber of...

At the first news of the disast by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, September 8th, 1900, we equipped a party of...

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

"Down goes the Spanish flag, and up floats the Stars and Stripes. Down falls the symbol of tyranny and oppression that has ruled in the new world for...

A pretty and natural picture in which the principal actors are two tiny tots who are evidently not a bit afraid of the briny deep as they splash...

This picture shows several buildings which were wrecked and also shows a rear view of this hotel, which is on the highest point of land in Galveston,...

A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.

A countryman goes to see a spiritualist and is frightened by what he sees.

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and...