Robert W. Paul Movies

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

A boy pulls a prank on his poor old mother.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

The passenger steamer Columbia leaves Rothesay pier.

A wife dismisses a maid she hired when she finds her husband flirting with her. Allegedly the first film to ever use intertitles.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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.