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