Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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...

A mix of spectacle, animation and dance, the film reveals an early delight in the potential for creative fun with film form. Its director, Walter R....

The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make...

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.

The artist is presented, with his board: his only appearance. The hand rapidly outlines a human head, into the chalky jaws of which it inserts a...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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....

"Magic" film using the art of animation and stop motion to do a surreal experiment with paper.

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

Using a futuristic submarine, pirates kidnap a young couple, torpedo a passenger ship, travel under the sea to salvage bullion, then make their...

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...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in...

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

Anarchists build a super aircraft and bomb a railway, a fort and St. Paul's.

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.