Movies: Robert W Paul

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

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 excitement but are moved aside by a member of the regiment. Directed by Robert W. Paul....

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

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 large profile caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The loss of the rest of the film has bequeathed us ...

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

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 least 100 feet into the water. A large wave rolls picturesquely along the wall toward the shore. Small...

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the second shot is only available as film stills. The fil...

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

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wr...

The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from above almost in a vertical plunge onto the deep, rocky ground....

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....

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck....

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

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter....

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge....

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

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. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and ri...

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

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