Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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...

Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

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...

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth...

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

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

Punished for mistreating the family pets, a young boy uses his chemistry set to wreak revenge on his parents.

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.

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 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 jovial looking man is seated nearest the window of a restaurant. He has just finished his meal and the waiter brings a glass of beer, and when he...

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

Here we present a picture that simply convulses an audience with laughter. The scene opens in the bedroom of a hotel. A traveler appears, evidently a...

A man's invention brings waxworks of historical figures to life

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.