Movies: Walter R. Booth

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 dog, she lets clowns appear; one female, and two male. The male clowns fight each other over the girl w...

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter....

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. Booth had been described as making British films which attempted to out-Méliès Méliès....

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

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 and dispenses it in the form of confetti. (BFI)...

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 Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and ri...

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 cigarette. The chalk head smokes, and finally eats, the cigarette. The head of a woman is drawn, which gr...

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces....

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

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

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 embroideries if this film are certainly animated in one sense, it is not through stop-motion animation. The...

A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif....

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear....

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

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

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

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film....