Robert W Paul Filmes

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

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

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

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 strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

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

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

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real...

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.