Walter R. Booth Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

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

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in...

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in...

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

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