Movies: Robert W Paul

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...

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

Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his favorite pugilist from his pocket, and they set them on the table. A hot battle ensues, in which one of the ...

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

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

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers....

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back down on a parallel track....

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

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A staged scene of a mugging on a London street. The interesting feature here is the hand controlled flashing light street sign used in the backdrop, showing us in a short glimpse that we would have seen such signs in the earliest days of electricity ...

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

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

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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...

A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks....

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

The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from above almost in a vertical plunge onto the deep, rocky ground....