Movies: Walter R. Booth

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye,...

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

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's...

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 speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sight of a second train rushing out of the tunnel...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown....

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

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)...

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

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 woman. He then continuous drawing the lady, one body part after the other....

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