Robert W. Paul Movies

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre...

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration

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

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...

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

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

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

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

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...

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.

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

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 famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded,...