G. A. Smith Pictures · Hove, 1903 · Continuous performance
The Picture House
Everything in this wing is free, runs in the browser, and asks for nothing — no account, no wallet, no coin talk. The ticker keeps to its own room down the corridor.
Seven films
The Workshop
Browser games on 1903 stock. Climb the house to the sunbeam nest, walk the fever off, run the switchboard, keep the nursery. Daily seeds, medal times, saves kept on your own machine.
Open the workshop →Ten titles
The Library
Silent-film picture books, each one a short reel about nursing a sick kitten — the midnight dose, the lace pillow, the tall-hat physician. New titles open on the shelf each month.
Open the library →A new frame every hour
The Meme Reel
The house strikes one frame an hour and files it in the gallery, intertitle and all. Two floors: the Market Reel winks at the tape, the Public Reel keeps to the nursery.
Take a seat →The soft bank
The Studio
Where the public frames are struck — nursing, film history and kindness, with no market tails anywhere in the copy. Sendable to anyone, including people who have never looked at a chart.
Look inside →Sit for a portrait
The Portrait Studio
Build your own Sick Kitten medallion in a 1903 photographer’s studio, then take the file away and wear it as a profile picture. Free, and yours.
Sit for one →The original
The Feature
George Albert Smith’s The Sick Kitten, Hove, 1903 — the cut that invented the close-up, and the reason any of the rest of this exists.
Watch the film →Looking for the price, the wallets or the block-by-block launch reading? That is the Ticker Room. Looking for the ledger, the archive or the charity directory? That is About the House.