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...

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 ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

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

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

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.

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...

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...

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

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

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

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

'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.

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...

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

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...

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...