Robert W. Paul Movies

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

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

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

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

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

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

Seen but not heard? Three children get up to mischief after their mother puts them to bed in this Victorian entertainment. This was one of numerous...

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

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

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

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

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...