Robert W Paul Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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....

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator...

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...

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...

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

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

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

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

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

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

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...