Robert W. Paul Movies

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre...

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...

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

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

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

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

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...

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

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

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...

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