Movies: Robert W Paul

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

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wr...

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. A magician sits a lady under a rug and makes her disapppear, before she reappearing in a field, alongside an ass, and several other women....

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 least 100 feet into the water. A large wave rolls picturesquely along the wall toward the shore. Small...

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

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain" Conside...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895....

Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate....

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A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them....

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

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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 speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sight of a second train rushing out of the tunnel...

Painter pursued by policeman, laundress, milkman, etc....

Directed by Robert W. Paul....

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot....

A boy pulls a prank on his poor old mother....

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 saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's...

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