Movies: Robert W Paul
- 1898
Come Along, Do! (1898)
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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...
- 1903
A Chess Dispute (1903)
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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...
- 1896
Rough Sea at Dover (1896)
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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...
- 1901
The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)
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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...
- 1902
The Extraordinary Waiter (1902)
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A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter....
- 1900
The Last Days of Pompeii (1900)
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Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls....
- 1903
An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903)
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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...
- 1903
Coronation Durbar at Delhi (1903)
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- 1901
An Over-Incubated Baby (1901)
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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 growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of the professor, who promptly places it in the i...
- 1904
Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)
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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 ...
- 1906
A Lively Quarter Day (1906)
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A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's....
- 1903
Pocket Boxers (1903)
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Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his favorite pugilist from his pocket, and they set them on the table. A hot battle ensues, in which one of the ...
- 1900
Phantom Ride, Chamonix (1900)
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A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks....
- 1900
His Brave Defender (1900)
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- 1908
Whaling Afloat and Ashore (1908)
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A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes....
- 1895
Incident at Clovelly Cottage (1895)
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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...
- 1906
Is Spiritualism a Fraud? – The Medium Exposed (1906)
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Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge....
- 1895
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II (1895)
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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 large profile caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The loss of the rest of the film has bequeathed us ...
- 1897
Women Fetching Water from the Nile (1897)
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- 1895
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy (1895)
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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....