Robert W Paul Movies

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...

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

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 le...

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...

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 spee...

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

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 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 unsophistic...

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life...

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

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...

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 w...

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

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

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

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 fort...

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.

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

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. T...