Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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

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

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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

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

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....

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth...

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

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...

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

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

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...