Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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 man's invention brings waxworks of historical figures to life

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...

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

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....

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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

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...

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...

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

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

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

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