Movies: Walter R. Booth

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear....

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

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown....

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...

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

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

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 cigarette. The chalk head smokes, and finally eats, the cigarette. The head of a woman is drawn, which gr...

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

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 dog, she lets clowns appear; one female, and two male. The male clowns fight each other over the girl w...

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 embroideries if this film are certainly animated in one sense, it is not through stop-motion animation. The...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter....

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces....

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

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. Booth had been described as making British films which attempted to out-Méliès Méliès....

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

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

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

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

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

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's....