Robert W. Paul Filmes

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

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 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.

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...

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

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...

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

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

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

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

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

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...

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...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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...