Walter R. Booth

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

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...

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....

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....

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

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

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

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...

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....

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 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 Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter. (IMDb)

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a...

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

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....

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

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

A robot chauffeur takes a newly married couple on their honeymoon to the planet Saturn and then on a trip under the sea.

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

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

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

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...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

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

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

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

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...