Robert W. Paul
Born: 1869-10-04 in Highbury, London, England, UK
Died: 1943-03-28
Known For: Directing
Biography
Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English film pioneer and scientific instrument maker. He began producing narrative films as early as April 1895, initially shown on Edison Kinetoscope-style devices, and by 1896 he was projecting them—around the same time the Lumière brothers were developing projected cinema in France. In addition to his filmmaking, Paul achieved success as an inventor, notably creating the Unipivot galvanometer. In 1999, the British film industry honored his contributions with a commemorative plaque at his former workshop at 44 Hatton Garden, London.
Filmography
1910
- The Butterfly ... (Director)
1909
- Domesticated Elephants ... (Director)
- The King and Queen's Visit to Berlin ... (Director)
1908
- Whaling Afloat and Ashore ... (Producer)
1907
- The Fatal Hand ... (Producer)
- Laplander Feeding His Reindeer ... (Producer)
1906
- The '?' Motorist ... (Producer)
- Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary Celebrations ... (Director)
- A Lively Quarter Day ... (Producer)
- Return of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales ... (Director)
1905
- Short-Sighted Sammy ... (Producer)
1904
- Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor ... (Producer)
- Drat That Boy! ... (Producer)
- A Collier's Life ... (Producer)
1903
- Hammerfest ... (Producer)
- An Extraordinary Cab Accident ... (Producer)
- The Delhi Durbar ... (Director)
- The Kiddies' Cakewalk ... (Producer)
- Race for the Grand National ... (Director)
- Coronation Durbar at Delhi ... (Producer)
1902
- Delhi Durbar ... (Director)
- The Extraordinary Waiter ... (Producer)
- His Only Pair ... (Director)
1901
- Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost ... (Producer)
- The Trick Cyclist ... (Director)
- The Deonzo Brothers ... (Producer)
- The Football Final ... (Director)
- The Haunted Curiosity Shop ... (Producer)
- The Waif and the Wizard ... (Producer)
- The Countryman and the Cinematograph ... (Director)
- Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race 1901 ... (Director)
1900
- The Derby 1900 ... (Director)
- The Deserter ... (Director)
- The Bout ... (Director)
- Chinese Magic ... (Producer)
- His Mother's Portrait, or The Soldier's Vision ... (Producer)
- Army Life: Mounted Infantry ... (Producer)
- Briton vs. Boer ... (Producer)
- An Exciting Pillow Fight ... (Producer)
- Cyclists and Pony Traps ... (Director)
- His Brave Defender ... (Producer)
- A Railway Collision ... (Producer)
- Plucked From The Burning ... (Producer)
- Phantom Ride, Chamonix ... (Director)
- Training at the Regimental Depot ... (Director)
- Cronje's Surrender to Lord Roberts ... (Producer)
- Training Cavalry Horses: The Recruit's First Ride ... (Director)
- Entry of the Scots' Guards into Bloemfontein ... (Producer)
- The Training of Infantry ... (Director)
- Firing at the Ranges ... (Director)
1899
- A Camp Smithy ... (Producer)
- Upside Down; or, The Human Flies ... (Producer)
- Attack on a Piquet ... (Producer)
- On a Runaway Motor-Car Through Piccadilly Circus ... (Director)
- The Kaiser at Portsmouth ... (Producer)
- Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War ... (Director)
1898
- Come Along, Do! ... (Director)
- Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall ... (Director)
- Tetherball, or Do-Do ... (Director)
- Tommy Atkins in the Park ... (Director)
- A Switchback Railway ... (Director)
- The Launch of H.M.S. Albion ... (Director)
- Clog Dancing Contest for the Championship of England ... (Director)
- A Favourite Domestic Scene ... (Director)
1897
- The Young Rivals ... (Director)
- Queen's Carriage and Indian Escort Arriving at St. Paul's ... (Director)
- Robbery ... (Director)
- Fun on the Clothesline as Chasing Man
- The Vanishing Lady ... (Director)
- Cupid at the Washtub ... (Producer)
- Head of Colonial Procession ... (Director)
- Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee ... (Director)
- Fishermen and Boat at Port Said ... (Producer)
- Women Fetching Water from the Nile ... (Producer)
- Head of Procession Including Bluejackets ... (Director)
- Life Guards and Princes North of St Paul's ... (Director)
- Dragoons Passing St Paul's ... (Director)
- Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's ... (Director)
- Royal Carriage Arriving at St Paul's ... (Director)
- Royal Princes in St. Paul's Churchyard ... (Director)
- Royal Carriages Passing Westminster ... (Director)
1896
- Trilby Burlesque ... (Producer)
- Waves Breaking ... (Director)
- Sunderland ... (Producer)
- Rocky Shore ... (Producer)
- The Derby ... (Director)
- Scene on the River Thames ... (Director)
- Chirgwin in His Humorous Business ... (Producer)
- Contortionist ... (Director)
- The Twins' Tea Party ... (Director)
- Two AM; or, The Husband's Return ... (Producer)
- Gardener Watering Plants ... (Director)
- Blackfriars Bridge ... (Director)
- On Westminster Bridge ... (Director)
- The Soldier's Courtship ... (Producer)
- Comic Costume Race ... (Director)
- Our New General Servant ... (Director)
- London Street Scene / Turn Out of a Fire Brigade ... (Director)
- Fire Brigade as Director
- A Football Match at Newcastle-on-Tyne ... (Director)
- Rough Sea at Dover ... (Producer)
- The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race ... (Producer)
- Hyde Park Bicycling Scene ... (Director)
- Landing at Low Tide ... (Producer)
- Royal Train ... (Director)
- Children in the Nursery ... (Director)
- A Sea Cave Near Lisbon ... (Producer)
1895
- Opening of the Kiel Canal ... (Producer)
- Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II ... (Producer)
- Incident at Clovelly Cottage ... (Producer)
- The Arrest of a Bookmaker ... (Director)
- The Derby 1895 ... (Producer)