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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 Electrical Vitalizer ... (Director)
The Aerial Submarine ... (Director)

1909

Animated Cotton ... (Director)
The Airship Destroyer ... (Director)

1907

Diabolo Nightmare ... (Director)
Comedy Cartoons as The artist
The Sorceror's Scissors ... (Director)
Willie's Magic Wand ... (Director)
The Magical Press ... (Director)
A Juvenile Scientist ... (Director)
The Baffled Burglar ... (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

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