Robert W. Paul
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1869-10-04
Day of Death
1943-03-28 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Highbury, London, England, UK
Robert W. Paul
Biography
Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English pioneer of film and scientific instrument maker.
He made narrative films as early as April 1895. Those films were shown first in Edison Kinescope knockoffs. In 1896 he showed them projected. That was about the time the Lumière brothers were pioneering projected films in France.
His first notably successful scientic device was his Unipivot galvanometer.
In 1999 the British film industry erected a commemorative plaque on his building at 44 Hatton Garden, London.
Known For
Acting
(1897)
Fun on the Clothesline
as Chasing Man
(1896)
Fire Brigade
as Director
Crew
S.S. Columbia
Producer
(1910)
The Butterfly
Director
(1909)
(1909)
Domesticated Elephants
Director
(1908)
Whaling Afloat and Ashore
Producer
(1907)
Laplander Feeding His Reindeer
Producer, Cinematography
(1906)
The '?' Motorist
Producer, Director of Photography
(1906)
(1906)
(1906)
A Lively Quarter Day
Producer
(1906)
The Hand of the Artist
Producer
(1905)
A Victim of Misfortune
Director
(1905)
Goaded to Anarchy
Director
(1905)
Short-Sighted Sammy
Producer
(1904)
Buy Your Own Cherries
Director
(1904)
Drat That Boy!
Producer
(1904)
Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor
Producer
(1904)
A Collier's Life
Producer
(1903)
A Chess Dispute
Director
(1903)
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Producer, Director
(1903)
Hammerfest
Producer, Director
(1903)
The Delhi Durbar
Director
(1903)
Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict
Director
(1903)
Race for the Grand National
Director
(1903)
Coronation Durbar at Delhi
Producer
(1903)
The Kiddies' Cakewalk
Producer
(1902)
Delhi Durbar
Director
(1902)
The Extraordinary Waiter
Producer
(1902)
His Only Pair
Director, Producer
(1901)
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
Producer
(1901)
The Football Final
Director
(1901)
(1901)
The Deonzo Brothers
Producer, Director
(1901)
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
Director, Producer
(1901)
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
Producer
(1901)
The Waif and the Wizard
Producer
(1900)
The Derby 1900
Director
(1900)
(1900)
Phantom Ride, Chamonix
Director
(1900)
The Bout
Director
(1900)
The Training of Infantry
Director
(1900)
(1900)
The Deserter
Director
(1900)
Army Life: Mounted Infantry
Director, Producer
(1900)
Cyclists and Pony Traps
Director
(1900)
Firing at the Ranges
Director
(1900)
An Exciting Pillow Fight
Producer
(1900)
(1900)
Training at the Regimental Depot
Director
(1900)
A Railway Collision
Producer
(1900)
His Brave Defender
Producer, Director
(1900)
Chinese Magic
Producer
(1900)
Briton vs. Boer
Producer
(1900)
Plucked From The Burning
Producer
(1899)
Attack on a Piquet
Director, Producer
(1899)
A Camp Smithy
Producer
(1899)
(1899)
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Producer
(1899)
On a Runaway Motor-Car Through Piccadilly Circus
Director, Producer
(1898)
Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall
Director
(1898)
The Launch of H.M.S. Albion
Director, Director of Photography
(1898)
Come Along, Do!
Producer, Director
(1898)
A Switchback Railway
Director
(1898)
Tommy Atkins in the Park
Director, Producer
(1898)
Tetherball, or Do-Do
Producer, Director
(1898)
(1898)
A Favourite Domestic Scene
Director, Producer
(1897)
(1897)
(1897)
Dragoons Passing St Paul's
Director
(1897)
(1897)
(1897)
(1897)
(1897)
(1897)
(1897)
Robbery
Director, Producer
(1897)
Cupid at the Washtub
Producer
(1897)
The Vanishing Lady
Director
(1897)
Fun on the Clothesline
Director
(1897)
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Director, Producer
(1897)
The Young Rivals
Producer, Director
(1897)
Fishermen and Boat at Port Said
Producer
(1897)
(1896)
Waves Breaking
Director
(1896)
Blackfriars Bridge
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
(1896)
Hyde Park Bicycling Scene
Director
(1896)
The Twins' Tea Party
Director
(1896)
On Westminster Bridge
Director
(1896)
Royal Train
Director
(1896)
Landing at Low Tide
Producer
(1896)
Sunderland
Cinematography, Producer
(1896)
A Sea Cave Near Lisbon
Producer
(1896)
Our New General Servant
Director
(1896)
Contortionist
Director
(1896)
Gardener Watering Plants
Director
(1896)
Scene on the River Thames
Director
(1896)
Two AM; or, The Husband's Return
Producer
(1896)
Comic Costume Race
Director
(1896)
(1896)
The Derby
Director
(1896)
Rough Sea at Dover
Producer
(1896)
The Soldier's Courtship
Producer
(1896)
Rocky Shore
Producer
(1896)
Trilby Burlesque
Producer
(1896)
Children in the Nursery
Director
(1896)
Fire Brigade
Producer
(1896)
Footpads
Director
(1896)
London Street Scene / Turn Out of a Fire Brigade
Director, Cinematography
(1895)
The Arrest of a Bookmaker
Director
(1895)
Opening of the Kiel Canal
Producer
(1895)
(1895)
The Derby 1895
Producer
(1895)
Incident at Clovelly Cottage
Producer