Robert W Paul Movies

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

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

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

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only...

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

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...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

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

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

A ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.

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...