Walter R. Booth
Known For: Directing
Biography
Walter Robert Booth (12 July 1869 – 1938) was a British magician and early pioneer of British film working first for Robert W. Paul and then Charles Urban mostly on "trick" films, where he pioneered techniques that led to what has been described as the first British animated film, The Hand of the Artist (1906).
Filmography
2018
- Secrets of British Animation as Self (archive Footage)
1912
- The Jester's Joke ... (Director)
- Paper Cuttings ... (Director)
1911
- Animated Putty ... (Director)
- The Aerial Anarchists ... (Director)
- The Automatic Motorist ... (Director)
1910
- The Aerial Submarine ... (Director)
- The Electrical Vitalizer ... (Director)
1909
- Animated Cotton ... (Director)
- The Airship Destroyer ... (Director)
1907
- Comedy Cartoons as The artist
- Diabolo Nightmare ... (Director)
- Willie's Magic Wand ... (Director)
- The Baffled Burglar ... (Director)
- The Sorceror's Scissors ... (Director)
- A Juvenile Scientist ... (Director)
- When the Devil Drives ... (Director)
- The Magical Press ... (Director)
- The Waif and the Statue ... (Director)
1906
- The Motorist ... (Director)
- The Hand of the Artist
- A Lively Quarter Day as The conjurer
1903
- Pocket Boxers ... (Director)
- An Extraordinary Cab Accident ... (Director)
- Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent ... (Director)
- Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent ... (Director)
1902
- The Extraordinary Waiter ... (Director)
1901
- Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost ... (Director)
- Undressing Extraordinary
- The Haunted Curiosity Shop ... (Director)
- The Devil in the Studio ... (Director)
- The Magic Sword ... (Writer)
- Artistic Creation as The cartoonist
- An Over-Incubated Baby ... (Director)
- The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant ... (Director)
- The Waif and the Wizard ... (Director)
1900
- Chinese Magic ... (Director)
- Plucked From The Burning ... (Director)
- A Railway Collision ... (Director)
- The Last Days of Pompeii ... (Director)
1899
- The Miser's Doom ... (Director)
- Upside Down; or, The Human Flies as Professor of spiritualism