Robert W. Paul Movies

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

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

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

A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

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

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

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

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.

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

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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

A wife dismisses a maid she hired when she finds her husband flirting with her. Allegedly the first film to ever use intertitles.

Brighton. Landing of party from small boat with comic incidents.

The short film is just a shot of the Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race. However, it is extremely important because, filmed on March 30...

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

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.