Movies: Walter R. Booth

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

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....

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 woman. He then continuous drawing the lady, one body part after the other....

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

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 "little worse for wear." After stretching and yawning, he proceeds to disrobe. He throws off his coa...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his favorite pugilist from his pocket, and they set them on the table. A hot battle ensues, in which one of the ...

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

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film....

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

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. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and ri...

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 places the glass upon the table, lo, a little sailor boy about six inches high appears from the foam, ...

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