Robert W. Paul Movies

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only...

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...

Brighton. Landing of party from small boat with comic incidents.

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at...

'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

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

A Football Match at Newcastle-on-Tyne refers to a one-minute film recorded in October 1896 by English film pioneer Robert William Paul. According to...

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator...

Rumored to be shot by Georges Demenÿ.

Silent documentary short

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre...

Taken from a music hall sketch of Lewin Fitzhamon and advertised as 'Two minutes of white hot excitement taking place on the open veldt.

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.