Movies: Walter R. Booth

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears....

"Magic" film using the art of animation and stop motion to do a surreal experiment with paper....

A robot chauffeur takes a newly married couple on their honeymoon to the planet Saturn and then on a trip under the sea....

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 another early example of a two-shot film along the lines of Paul's earlier film Come Along Do!. The you...

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real woman. He then continuous drawing the lady, one body part after the other....

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a dog, she lets clowns appear; one female, and two male. The male clowns fight each other over the girl w...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown....

An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of the professor, who promptly places it in the i...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear....

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

Anarchists build a super aircraft and bomb a railway, a fort and St. Paul's....

A man's invention brings waxworks of historical figures to life...

The artist is presented, with his board: his only appearance. The hand rapidly outlines a human head, into the chalky jaws of which it inserts a cigarette. The chalk head smokes, and finally eats, the cigarette. The head of a woman is drawn, which gr...

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and embroideries if this film are certainly animated in one sense, it is not through stop-motion animation. The...

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film....

A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand....

Punished for mistreating the family pets, a young boy uses his chemistry set to wreak revenge on his parents....

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy....

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's....