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 playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to...

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

Taken from a motor cab running at full speed along Piccadilly and through the Circus, narrowly escaping collision with various buses and cabs

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded,...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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

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

A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks.

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....

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. A magician sits a lady under a rug and makes her disapppear, before she reappearing in a...

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.