Robert W Paul Movies

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 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....

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

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

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

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

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

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

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.

Here we present a picture that simply convulses an audience with laughter. The scene opens in the bedroom of a hotel. A traveler appears, evidently a...

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

A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.

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

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

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....