Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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

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...

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

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

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...

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...

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...

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