Robert W. Paul Movies

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

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

A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre...

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 panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.

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

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...

Seen but not heard? Three children get up to mischief after their mother puts them to bed in this Victorian entertainment. This was one of numerous...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A convict escapes from Portland Quarry and is caught in the woods by bloodhounds from Radnage kennels.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

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...