Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Worcester, England, UK
Credits
42 titles
Walter R. Booth
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).
Known For
Filmography
Secrets of British Animation
Self (archive Footage)
Paper Cuttings
Director
The Jester's Joke
Director
The Aerial Anarchists
Director
The Automatic Motorist
Director
Animated Putty
Director
The Electrical Vitalizer
Director
The Aerial Submarine
Director
The Airship Destroyer
Director
Animated Cotton
Director
Diabolo Nightmare
Director
When the Devil Drives
Director
The Sorceror's Scissors
Director
A Juvenile Scientist
Director
Willie's Magic Wand
Director
The Baffled Burglar
Director
The Magical Press
Director
Comedy Cartoons
The artist
The Waif and the Statue
Director
The '?' Motorist
Director
The Hand of the Artist
A Lively Quarter Day
The conjurer
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Director
Pocket Boxers
Director
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent
Director
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent
Director
The Extraordinary Waiter
Director
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
Director
The Magic Sword
Writer
Artistic Creation
The cartoonist
The Waif and the Wizard
Director
Undressing Extraordinary
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
Director
The Devil in the Studio
Director
An Over-Incubated Baby
Director
The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
Director
Plucked From The Burning
Director
Chinese Magic
Director
The Last Days of Pompeii
Director
A Railway Collision
Director
The Miser's Doom
Director
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Professor of spiritualism