Robert W Paul Movies

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...

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...

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....

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

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

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

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.

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.

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

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...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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...

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...

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

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

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...