Robert W. Paul Movies

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

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...

Short actuality showing Kaiser Wilhelm II visiting Portsmouth, including views associated with Nelson’s flagship H.M.S. Victory. Produced in...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

A wounded soldier dreams of his mother whose framed miniature deflects a bullet from his heart.

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

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

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

Silent documentary short

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 panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.