Walter R. Booth

Known for: Directing
Movies: 47

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).

Best-Known Movies

6.4

The '?' Motorist

1906

5.7

Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost

1901

5.4

The Haunted Curiosity Shop

1901

5.8

The Airship Destroyer

1909

5.8

An Extraordinary Cab Accident

1903

5.6

Upside Down; or, The Human Flies

1899

6.2

Artistic Creation

1901

5.3

An Over-Incubated Baby

1901

6.2

The Automatic Motorist

1911

4.5

A Railway Collision

1900

Filmography

2018	Secrets of British Animation	Self (archive Footage)
1907	Comedy Cartoons	The artist
1906	The Hand of the Artist
1906	A Lively Quarter Day	The conjurer
1901	Artistic Creation	The cartoonist
1901	Undressing Extraordinary
1899	Upside Down; or, The Human Flies	Professor of spiritualism

Directing, Writing & Producing

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

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