Walter R. Booth Movies

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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 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 Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

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

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...

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

A robot chauffeur takes a newly married couple on their honeymoon to the planet Saturn and then on a trip under the sea.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.