Robert W. Paul Movies

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

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

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

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...

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 stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...

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 Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

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

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth...

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

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

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

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

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

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 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...