Walter R. Booth Movies

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 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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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....

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

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...

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....

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...

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

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...

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...

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