Robert W Paul Movies

Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his...

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....

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

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

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...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

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

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

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 Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

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...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

A ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...