Movies: Walter R. Booth

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

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...

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...

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces....

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

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter....

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

A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif....

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...

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....

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

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

The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make films in his own London garden....

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

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...

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

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

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