Robert W. Paul Movies

The short film is just a shot of the Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race. However, it is extremely important because, filmed on March 30...

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

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.

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...

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration

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

Short documentary released in 1907.

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks.

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an...

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.

This attractively composed one-shot film offers viewers an uncomplicated view of waves crashing against rocks.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.