Robert W Paul Movies

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.

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

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. T...

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

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 ano...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Three athletes make their way to wicker baskets that contain a mishmash of wacky costumes. They need to dress up as quickly as they can, and make thei...

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

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 excite...

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real w...

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

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...

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

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

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

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

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.