Robert W. Paul Movies

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

Old woman sews patch on grandson’s trousers while friends jeer.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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...

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

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...

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

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

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

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

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

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

This attractively composed one-shot film offers viewers an uncomplicated view of waves crashing against rocks.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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

Directed by Robert W. Paul.