Movies: Robert W Paul

  • 1908
    Whaling Afloat and Ashore

    Whaling Afloat and Ashore (1908)

    Whaling Afloat and Ashore

    61908HD

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

    Whaling Afloat and Ashore
  • 1895
    Incident at Clovelly Cottage

    Incident at Clovelly Cottage (1895)

    Incident at Clovelly Cottage

    2.71895HD

    Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain" Conside...

    Incident at Clovelly Cottage
  • 1904
    Buy Your Own Cherries

    Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)

    Buy Your Own Cherries

    4.61904HD

    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 who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms ...

    Buy Your Own Cherries
  • 1899
    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War

    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War (1899)

    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War

    01899HD

    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....

    Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War
  • 1899
    The Miser's Doom

    The Miser's Doom (1899)

    The Miser's Doom

    41899HD

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

    The Miser's Doom
  • 1895
    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II

    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II (1895)

    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II

    41895HD

    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 ...

    Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • 1896
    Two AM; or, The Husband's Return

    Two AM; or, The Husband's Return (1896)

    Two AM; or, The Husband's Return

    4.81896HD

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

    Two AM; or, The Husband's Return
  • 1900
    His Brave Defender

    His Brave Defender (1900)

    His Brave Defender

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    His Brave Defender
  • 1905
    The Freak Barber

    The Freak Barber (1905)

    The Freak Barber

    01905HD

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

    The Freak Barber
  • 1903
    A Chess Dispute

    A Chess Dispute (1903)

    A Chess Dispute

    5.71903HD

    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...

    A Chess Dispute
  • 1901
    The Magic Sword

    The Magic Sword (1901)

    The Magic Sword

    6.41901HD

    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 Magic Sword
  • 1901
    The Countryman and the Cinematograph

    The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)

    The Countryman and the Cinematograph

    5.41901HD

    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 unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by t...

    The Countryman and the Cinematograph
  • 1898
    Come Along, Do!

    Come Along, Do! (1898)

    Come Along, Do!

    4.61898HD

    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...

    Come Along, Do!
  • 1895
    Opening of the Kiel Canal

    Opening of the Kiel Canal (1895)

    Opening of the Kiel Canal

    31895HD

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

    Opening of the Kiel Canal
  • 1904
    The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers

    The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers (1904)

    The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers

    01904HD

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

    The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers
  • 1896
    Rough Sea at Dover

    Rough Sea at Dover (1896)

    Rough Sea at Dover

    5.11896HD

    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...

    Rough Sea at Dover
  • 1901
    An Over-Incubated Baby

    An Over-Incubated Baby (1901)

    An Over-Incubated Baby

    4.91901HD

    An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of the professor, who promptly places it in the i...

    An Over-Incubated Baby
  • 1906
    The '?' Motorist

    The '?' Motorist (1906)

    The '?' Motorist

    6.41906HD

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

    The '?' Motorist
  • 1897
    Fun on the Clothesline

    Fun on the Clothesline (1897)

    Fun on the Clothesline

    31897HD

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

    Fun on the Clothesline
  • 1895
    The Arrest of a Bookmaker

    The Arrest of a Bookmaker (1895)

    The Arrest of a Bookmaker

    4.11895HD

    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 Arrest of a Bookmaker