Movies: Robert W Paul

  • 1898
    Come Along, Do!

    Come Along, Do! (1898)

    Come Along, Do!

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    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 forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the second shot is only available as film stills. The fil...

    Come Along, Do!
  • 1900
    His Brave Defender

    His Brave Defender (1900)

    His Brave Defender

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    His Brave Defender
  • 1900
    A Railway Collision

    A Railway Collision (1900)

    A Railway Collision

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    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 speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sight of a second train rushing out of the tunnel...

    A Railway Collision
  • 1895
    Incident at Clovelly Cottage

    Incident at Clovelly Cottage (1895)

    Incident at Clovelly Cottage

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    Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain" Conside...

    Incident at Clovelly Cottage
  • 1908
    Whaling Afloat and Ashore

    Whaling Afloat and Ashore (1908)

    Whaling Afloat and Ashore

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    A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes....

    Whaling Afloat and Ashore
  • 1898
    In the Name of the Queen

    In the Name of the Queen (1898)

    In the Name of the Queen

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    A deserter hidden by his mother is found by army police....

    In the Name of the Queen
  • 1901
    The Haunted Curiosity Shop

    The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)

    The Haunted Curiosity Shop

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

    The Haunted Curiosity Shop
  • 1895
    Opening of the Kiel Canal

    Opening of the Kiel Canal (1895)

    Opening of the Kiel Canal

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

    Opening of the Kiel Canal
  • 1901
    The Countryman and the Cinematograph

    The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)

    The Countryman and the Cinematograph

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    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 unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by t...

    The Countryman and the Cinematograph
  • 1904
    Buy Your Own Cherries

    Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)

    Buy Your Own Cherries

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    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 who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms ...

    Buy Your Own Cherries
  • 1902
    The Extraordinary Waiter

    The Extraordinary Waiter (1902)

    The Extraordinary Waiter

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    A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter....

    The Extraordinary Waiter
  • 1903
    A Chess Dispute

    A Chess Dispute (1903)

    A Chess Dispute

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    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 fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wr...

    A Chess Dispute
  • 1901
    The Waif and the Wizard

    The Waif and the Wizard (1901)

    The Waif and the Wizard

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    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 another early example of a two-shot film along the lines of Paul's earlier film Come Along Do!. The you...

    The Waif and the Wizard
  • 1895
    Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy

    Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy (1895)

    Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy

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    An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar....

    Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
  • 1900
    The Last Days of Pompeii

    The Last Days of Pompeii (1900)

    The Last Days of Pompeii

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

    The Last Days of Pompeii
  • 1903
    An Extraordinary Cab Accident

    An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903)

    An Extraordinary Cab Accident

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    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 saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's...

    An Extraordinary Cab Accident
  • 1903
    Coronation Durbar at Delhi

    Coronation Durbar at Delhi (1903)

    Coronation Durbar at Delhi

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    Coronation Durbar at Delhi
  • 1906
    A Lively Quarter Day

    A Lively Quarter Day (1906)

    A Lively Quarter Day

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    A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's....

    A Lively Quarter Day
  • 1896
    Rough Sea at Dover

    Rough Sea at Dover (1896)

    Rough Sea at Dover

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    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 least 100 feet into the water. A large wave rolls picturesquely along the wall toward the shore. Small...

    Rough Sea at Dover
  • 1906
    Is Spiritualism a Fraud? – The Medium Exposed

    Is Spiritualism a Fraud? – The Medium Exposed (1906)

    Is Spiritualism a Fraud? – The Medium Exposed

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    Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge....

    Is Spiritualism a Fraud? – The Medium Exposed