Robert W. Paul Movies

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....

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

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

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...

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...

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 series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

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...

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

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

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

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 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...

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...

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to...

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.

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...

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

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

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