Robert W. Paul Movies

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

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

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

Rumored to be shot by Georges Demenÿ.

The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from...

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...

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

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

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 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...

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

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

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

Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate.

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