Walter R. Booth
- Directing
- Worcester, England, UK
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
- Paper Cuttings · Director
- The Jester's Joke · Director
- The Aerial Anarchists · Director
- The Automatic Motorist · Director
- Animated Putty · Director
- The Aerial Submarine · Director
- The Electric Vitalizer · 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, Director
- The Waif and the Statue · Director
- The '?' Motorist · Director
- The Hand of the Artist · Director
- 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
- The Magic Sword · Writer, Director
- Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost · Director
- Artistic Creation · The cartoonist, Director
- The Waif and the Wizard · Director
- The Haunted Curiosity Shop · Director
- Undressing Extraordinary · Director
- The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant · Director
- An Over-Incubated Baby · Director
- The Devil in the Studio · Director
- Plucked From The Burning · Director
- Chinese Magic · Director
- The Last Days of Pompeii · Director
- A Railway Collision · Director
- Upside Down; or, The Human Flies · Professor of spiritualism, Director
- The Miser's Doom · Director