Robert W Paul Movies

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 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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the...

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

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

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...

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

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