Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into different shapes.

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

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...

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 conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

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

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

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

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

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

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