Robert W. Paul Movies

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

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

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 playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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

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...

Short actuality showing Kaiser Wilhelm II visiting Portsmouth, including views associated with Nelson’s flagship H.M.S. Victory. Produced in...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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...

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

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