Robert W. Paul

Robert W. Paul

出生 : 1869-10-04, Highbury, London, England, UK

死亡 : 1943-03-28

略歴

Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English pioneer of film and scientific instrument maker. He made narrative films as early as April 1895. Those films were shown first in Edison Kinescope knockoffs. In 1896 he showed them projected. That was about the time the Lumière brothers were pioneering projected films in France. His first notably successful scientic device was his Unipivot galvanometer. In 1999 the British film industry erected a commemorative plaque on his building at 44 Hatton Garden, London.

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The Butterfly
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Domesticated Elephants
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The King and Queen's Visit to Berlin
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Whaling Afloat and Ashore
Producer
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.
Laplander Feeding His Reindeer
Cinematography
Short documentary released in 1907.
Laplander Feeding His Reindeer
Producer
Short documentary released in 1907.
The '?' Motorist
Director of Photography
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
The '?' Motorist
Producer
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
The Hand of the Artist
Producer
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)
Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary Celebrations
Director
Return of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales
Director
Goaded to Anarchy
Director
An anarchist blows up the general who sent his wife to Siberia.
The Unfortunate Policeman
Director
Early comedic chase film from Robert W. Paul.
Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor
Producer
A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.
Buy Your Own Cherries
Director
A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms penniless and without provisions into his ill-furnished house where his wife and two children, ill-clad and ill-fed, cower. Is there any hope for him and for his family? If he does realize how low he's sunk, what help is there to lift him up? Will the family ever know the taste of cherries?
Drat That Boy
Producer
A boy pulls a prank on his poor old mother.
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Producer
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 stationary range. The cop runs after the cab, the woman dashes to the body. The cop brings back the driver; is the victim dead?
The Kiddies' Cakewalk
Producer
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Director
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 stationary range. The cop runs after the cab, the woman dashes to the body. The cop brings back the driver; is the victim dead?
Race for the Grand National
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict
Director
A convict escapes from Portland Quarry and is caught in the woods by bloodhounds from Radnage kennels.
Coronation Durbar at Delhi
Producer
The Delhi Durbar
Director
Hammerfest
Director
A panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.
Hammerfest
Producer
A panorama shot of the Norwegian town and harbour of Hammerfest. Believed to be the earliest surviving film of Norway.
A Chess Dispute
Director
A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.
The Extraordinary Waiter
Producer
A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter. (IMDb)
His Only Pair
Producer
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
Producer
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 and was filmed at Paul's Animatograph Works. It was released in November 1901. As was common in cinema's early days, the filmmakers chose to adapt an already well-known story, in this case A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in the belief that the audience's familiarity with the story would result in the need for fewer intertitles. It was presented in 'Twelve Tableaux' or scenes. The film contains the first use of intertitles in a film.
The Waif and the Wizard
Producer
The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines of Paul's earlier film Come Along Do!. The young man plays a magician who, after completing his act, agrees to go home with the young boy from the audience who helped him perform his tricks. At the boy's home he finds a sick sister and a worried mother being threatened with eviction by her landlord.
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race 1901
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The Football Final
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
Producer
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
Director
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
Producer
An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.
The Deonzo Brothers
Producer
The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded, stand on opposite sides of the stage, and jump from one barrel into the other until they both land in the same barrel at the same time. They then jump backwards onto the stage over the two barrels. One table is then mounted upon another and the center barrel is placed on top. The brothers still blindfolded jump one each into a barrel and from them to the first to the second table and from the second table into the barrel on top of the second table. They then jump backwards onto the stage. This is pronounced by show people to be the most marvellous acrobatic feat that has ever been introduced. (Edison Catalog)
A Railway Collision
Producer
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. Both trains are on the same track and traveling toward each other at a high rate of speed. They collide. Cars and engines are smashed into fragments and thrown down the steep incline. (Edison Catalog)
Firing at the Ranges
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Cyclists and Pony Traps
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The Deserter
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Phantom Ride, Chamonix
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The Derby 1900
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Training Cavalry Horses: The Recruit's First Ride
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Training at the Regimental Depot
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The Training of Infantry
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The Bout
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Entry of the Scots' Guards into Bloemfontein
Producer
An Exciting Pillow Fight
Producer
Cronje's Surrender to Lord Roberts
Producer
His Brave Defender
Producer
Army Life: Mounted Infantry
Director
Army Life: Mounted Infantry
Producer
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Producer
A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.
Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
A Camp Smithy
Producer
Attack on a Piquet
Director
Attack on a Piquet
Producer
A Favourite Domestic Scene
Producer
Tommy Atkins in the Park
Producer
A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.
Tommy Atkins in the Park
Director
A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.
Tetherball, or Do-Do
Producer
Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.
Tetherball, or Do-Do
Director
Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.
A Switchback Railway
Director
The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back down on a parallel track.
Come Along, Do!
Producer
Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the second shot is only available as film stills. The film features an elderly man at an art gallery who takes a great interest in a nude statue to the irritation of his wife. The film has cinematographic significance as the first example of film continuity. It was, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "one of the first films to feature more than one shot." In the first shot, an elderly couple is outside an art exhibition having lunch and then follow other people inside through the door. The second shot shows what they do inside.
Come Along, Do!
Director
Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the second shot is only available as film stills. The film features an elderly man at an art gallery who takes a great interest in a nude statue to the irritation of his wife. The film has cinematographic significance as the first example of film continuity. It was, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "one of the first films to feature more than one shot." In the first shot, an elderly couple is outside an art exhibition having lunch and then follow other people inside through the door. The second shot shows what they do inside.
The Launch of H.M.S. Albion
Director of Photography
The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.
The Launch of H.M.S. Albion
Director
The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.
Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall
Director
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Producer
A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Director
A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
The Vanishing Lady
Director
Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life. The man expresses great love and desire for her, but every time the man goes to grab the girl she vanishes and reappears somewhere else.
Fun on the Clothesline
Director
Wire-walker performs on woman's clothesline.
Cupid at the Washtub
Producer
A playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to tease a kiss from a young girl doing the washing at a tub. For his efforts, the man receives a dunking in the tub himself and much hilarity follows. (IMDb)
Fishermen and Boat at Port Said
Producer
Women Fetching Water from the Nile
Producer
Robbery
Producer
A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.
Robbery
Director
A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.
Life Guards and Princes North of St Paul's
Director
Queen's Carriage and Indian Escort Arriving at St. Paul's
Director
Royal Princes in St. Paul's Churchyard
Director
Royal Carriage Arriving at St Paul's
Director
Dragoons Passing St Paul's
Director
Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's
Director
Royal Carriages Passing Westminster
Director
Head of Colonial Procession, Canadians, etc
Director
Head of Procession Including Bluejackets
Director
A Sea Cave Near Lisbon
Producer
The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from above almost in a vertical plunge onto the deep, rocky ground.
Children in the Nursery
Director
Seen but not heard? Three children get up to mischief after their mother puts them to bed in this Victorian entertainment. This was one of numerous variations on the theme of 'naughty little boys or girls' in film's early years, demonstrating that Victorian ideals of child discipline didn't always match the reality.
Two AM; or, The Husband's Return
Producer
Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.
The Twins' Tea Party
Director
Scene on the river Thames
Director
A baby falls into the river
Chirgwin in His Humorous Business
Producer
'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.
Landing at Low Tide
Producer
Brighton. Landing of party from small boat with comic incidents.
The Soldier's Courtship
Producer
Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.
The Derby
Director
Trilby Burlesque
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Contortionist
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Gardener Watering Plants
Director
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
Our New General Servant
Director
A wife dismisses a maid she hired when she finds her husband flirting with her. Allegedly the first film to ever use intertitles.
Sunderland
Cinematography
Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.
Sunderland
Producer
Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.
Waves Breaking
Director
Shot by Georges Demenÿ.
Comic Costume Race
Director
Three athletes make their way to wicker baskets that contain a mishmash of wacky costumes. They need to dress up as quickly as they can, and make their way back on the running track.
On Westminster Bridge
Director
Royal Train
Director
Hyde Park Bicycling Scene
Director
Blackfriars Bridge
Director
R.W. Paul's early footage showing the new Blackfriars Bridge. It had been opened by Queen Victoria in 1869 for both road and rail, and showcases the distinctive Venetian Gothic ironwork.
Opening of the Kiel Canal
Producer
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
Rough Sea at Dover
Producer
The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at least 100 feet into the water. A large wave rolls picturesquely along the wall toward the shore. Smaller waves follow. Then the scene changes to river water flowing. We see both shores: in the foreground a log and tree branch are visible; on the far shore, there appears to be a low wall with trees beyond it. The camera is stationary in both shots.
The Arrest of a Bookmaker
Director
A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.
Incident at Clovelly Cottage
Producer
Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain" Considered lost since only a few frames have survived.