Robert W. Paul Movies

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth...

A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of...

Short actuality showing Kaiser Wilhelm II visiting Portsmouth, including views associated with Nelson’s flagship H.M.S. Victory. Produced in...

A wounded soldier dreams of his mother whose framed miniature deflects a bullet from his heart.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.