Paul S Animatograph Works Movies

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

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...

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 Football Match at Newcastle-on-Tyne refers to a one-minute film recorded in October 1896 by English film pioneer Robert William Paul. According to...

Three athletes make their way to wicker baskets that contain a mishmash of wacky costumes. They need to dress up as quickly as they can, and make...

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...

Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate.

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

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

Man robbed of spectacles mistakes tramp for girl, etc.

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then...

Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

Short actuality showing Kaiser Wilhelm II visiting Portsmouth, including views associated with Nelson’s flagship H.M.S. Victory. Produced in...

Old woman sews patch on grandson’s trousers while friends jeer.

The passenger steamer Columbia leaves Rothesay pier.