Movies: Robert W Paul
- 1906
The '?' Motorist (1906)
The '?' Motorist6.41906HD
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage....
- 1903
An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903)
An Extraordinary Cab Accident5.81903HD
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 saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's...
- 1901
The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)
The Countryman and the Cinematograph5.41901HD
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 unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by t...
- 1900
A Railway Collision (1900)
A Railway Collision4.11900HD
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 speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sight of a second train rushing out of the tunnel...
- 1898
Come Along, Do! (1898)
Come Along, Do!4.71898HD
Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the second shot is only available as film stills. The fil...
- 1901
The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)
The Haunted Curiosity Shop5.31901HD
An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop....
- 1896
Rough Sea at Dover (1896)
Rough Sea at Dover5.11896HD
The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at least 100 feet into the water. A large wave rolls picturesquely along the wall toward the shore. Small...
- 1904
Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)
Buy Your Own Cherries4.71904HD
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 who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms ...
- 1903
A Chess Dispute (1903)
A Chess Dispute5.81903HD
A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wr...
- 1895
The Arrest of a Bookmaker (1895)
The Arrest of a Bookmaker4.11895HD
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....
- 1904
The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers (1904)
The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers01904HD
Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot....
- 1908
Whaling Afloat and Ashore (1908)
Whaling Afloat and Ashore61908HD
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes....
- 1896
The Derby (1896)
The Derby51896HD
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- 1901
An Over-Incubated Baby (1901)
An Over-Incubated Baby4.81901HD
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of the professor, who promptly places it in the i...
- 1898
Clog Dancing Contest for the Championship of England (1898)
Clog Dancing Contest for the Championship of England21898HD
Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate....
- 1901
The Waif and the Wizard (1901)
The Waif and the Wizard6.51901HD
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 another early example of a two-shot film along the lines of Paul's earlier film Come Along Do!. The you...
- 1901
Artistic Creation (1901)
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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 woman. He then continuous drawing the lady, one body part after the other....
- 1899
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (1899)
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies5.31899HD
A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience....
- 1895
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II (1895)
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II41895HD
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing a large profile caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The loss of the rest of the film has bequeathed us ...
- 1904
Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor (1904)
Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor4.51904HD
A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets....