Walter R. Booth Movies

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...

An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the...

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 small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

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