Walter R. Booth Movies

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...

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...

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

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 Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

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

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

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

A lady uses a series of newspaper spreads to create various objects including a man, a clock and a dog.

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

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

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

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 conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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

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 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...

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

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...

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