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

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....

Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only...

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

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

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

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

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.

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

The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from...

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

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...

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

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....

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real...