Robert W. Paul Movies

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...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by 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...

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

A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth...

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

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

A panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.

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

Painter pursued by policeman, laundress, milkman, etc.

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

Man robbed of spectacles mistakes tramp for girl, etc.

A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.