Robert W Paul Movies

Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his...

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

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...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. A magician sits a lady under a rug and makes her disapppear, before she reappearing in a...

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.

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...

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....

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

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

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

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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