Robert W. Paul Movies

A panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

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

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...

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

The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded,...

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Dangled precariously off a boat, a baby falls into the river. Many people on the bank quickly scramble to its rescue.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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...

A boy pulls a prank on his poor old mother.

Rumored to be shot by Georges Demenÿ.

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.