Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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...

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

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...

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

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...

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

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

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...

Using a futuristic submarine, pirates kidnap a young couple, torpedo a passenger ship, travel under the sea to salvage bullion, then make their...

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

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

A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk...

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

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...

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

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...