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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

Paper Cuttings ... (Director)
The Jester's Joke ... (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)
The Sorceror's Scissors ... (Director)
Willie's Magic Wand ... (Director)
The Magical Press ... (Director)
The Baffled Burglar ... (Director)
A Juvenile Scientist ... (Director)
When the Devil Drives ... (Director)
The Waif and the Statue ... (Director)

1906

1903

Pocket Boxers ... (Director)
An Extraordinary Cab Accident ... (Director)
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent ... (Director)
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent ... (Director)

1902

The Extraordinary Waiter ... (Director)

1901

Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost ... (Director)
Undressing Extraordinary
The Magic Sword ... (Writer)
The Haunted Curiosity Shop ... (Director)
The Devil in the Studio ... (Director)
Artistic Creation as The cartoonist
The Waif and the Wizard ... (Director)
An Over-Incubated Baby ... (Director)
The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant ... (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