Robert W. Paul Filmes

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

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...

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

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 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...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A comic short in which a tramp attempts to ride a bicycle, tumbling repeatedly before giving up in despair. A skilled rider then takes the stage,...

The passenger steamer Columbia leaves Rothesay pier.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

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

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

A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks.