Robert W Paul Movies

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

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

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

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

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...

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...

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

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome....

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

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

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...

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...

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator...

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman...

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

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