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).
Personal Details
Movies (41)
Secrets of British Animation
as Self (archive Footage)
2018
Paper Cuttings
Director (Directing)
1912
The Jester's Joke
Director (Directing)
1912
The Aerial Anarchists
Director (Directing)
1911
The Automatic Motorist
Director (Directing)
1911
Animated Putty
Director (Directing)
1911
The Aerial Submarine
Director (Directing)
1910
The Electrical Vitalizer
Director (Directing)
1910
Animated Cotton
Director (Directing)
1909
The Airship Destroyer
Director (Directing)
1909
Diabolo Nightmare
Director (Directing)
1907
When the Devil Drives
Director (Directing)
1907
The Sorceror's Scissors
Director (Directing)
1907
A Juvenile Scientist
Director (Directing)
1907
Willie's Magic Wand
Director (Directing)
1907
The Baffled Burglar
Director (Directing)
1907
Comedy Cartoons
as The artist
1907
The Waif and the Statue
Director (Directing)
1907
The '?' Motorist
Director (Directing)
1906
The Hand of the Artist
1906
A Lively Quarter Day
as The conjurer
1906
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Director (Directing)
1903
Pocket Boxers
Director (Directing)
1903
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent
Director (Directing)
1903
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent
Director (Directing)
1903
The Extraordinary Waiter
Director (Directing)
1902
The Magic Sword
Writer (Writing)
1901
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
Director (Directing)
1901
Artistic Creation
as The cartoonist
1901
The Waif and the Wizard
Director (Directing)
1901
Undressing Extraordinary
1901
The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
Director (Directing)
1901
An Over-Incubated Baby
Director (Directing)
1901
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
Director (Directing)
1901
The Devil in the Studio
Director (Directing)
1901
Plucked From The Burning
Director (Directing)
1900
Chinese Magic
Director (Directing)
1900
The Last Days of Pompeii
Director (Directing)
1900
A Railway Collision
Director (Directing)
1900
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
as Professor of spiritualism
1899
The Miser's Doom
Director (Directing)
1899