About
Robert W. Paul
Overview
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 | Actor | Chasing Man | 58 Average |
Directing |
||||
1910 | The Butterfly | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1909 | Domesticated Elephants | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1909 | The King and Queen's Visit to Berlin | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1906 | Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary Celebrations | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1906 | Return of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1905 | A Victim of Misfortune | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1905 | Goaded to Anarchy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1904 | Buy Your Own Cherries | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1903 | An Extraordinary Cab Accident | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1903 | A Chess Dispute | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1903 | Hammerfest | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1903 | The Delhi Durbar | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1903 | Race for the Grand National | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1903 | Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1902 | Delhi Durbar | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1902 | His Only Pair | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1901 | The Countryman and the Cinematograph | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1901 | The Deonzo Brothers | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1901 | Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race 1901 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1901 | The Football Final | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | The Bout | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Phantom Ride, Chamonix | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | The Derby 1900 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Training at the Regimental Depot | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Firing at the Ranges | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Cyclists and Pony Traps | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | The Deserter | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | The Training of Infantry | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Training Cavalry Horses: The Recruit's First Ride | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Army Life: Mounted Infantry | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1900 | His Brave Defender | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1899 | On a Runaway Motor-Car Through Piccadilly Circus | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1899 | Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1899 | Attack on a Piquet | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1898 | A Favourite Domestic Scene | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1898 | Tommy Atkins in the Park | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1898 | Clog Dancing Contest for the Championship of England | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1898 | A Switchback Railway | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1898 | The Launch of H.M.S. Albion | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1898 | Come Along, Do! | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1898 | Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1898 | Tetherball, or Do-Do | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1897 | The Vanishing Lady | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1897 | Fun on the Clothesline | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1897 | The Young Rivals | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1897 | Dragoons Passing St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Royal Carriages Passing Westminster | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Queen's Carriage and Indian Escort Arriving at St. Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Head of Colonial Procession, Canadians, etc | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Royal Princes in St. Paul's Churchyard | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Life Guards and Princes North of St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Robbery | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1897 | Royal Carriage Arriving at St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Head of Procession Including Bluejackets | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Children in the Nursery | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | The Twins' Tea Party | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Scene on the River Thames | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | The Derby | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Gardener Watering Plants | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Our New General Servant | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Contortionist | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Royal Train | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Waves Breaking | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Footpads | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Hyde Park Bicycling Scene | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Comic Costume Race | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | On Westminster Bridge | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1895 | The Arrest of a Bookmaker | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
Production |
||||
1908 | Whaling Afloat and Ashore | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1907 | Laplander Feeding His Reindeer | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1906 | The '?' Motorist | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1906 | The Hand of the Artist | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1906 | A Lively Quarter-Day | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1905 | Short-Sighted Sammy | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1904 | Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1904 | Drat That Boy! | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1904 | A Collier's Life | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1903 | An Extraordinary Cab Accident | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1903 | The Kiddies' Cakewalk | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1903 | Hammerfest | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1903 | Coronation Durbar at Delhi | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1902 | The Extraordinary Waiter | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1902 | His Only Pair | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1901 | Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1901 | The Countryman and the Cinematograph | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1901 | The Waif and the Wizard | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1901 | The Deonzo Brothers | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1901 | The Haunted Curiosity Shop | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | Chinese Magic | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1900 | A Railway Collision | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | Entry of the Scots' Guards into Bloemfontein | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | An Exciting Pillow Fight | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1900 | Cronje's Surrender to Lord Roberts | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | Army Life: Mounted Infantry | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | His Brave Defender | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1899 | On a Runaway Motor-Car Through Piccadilly Circus | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1899 | Upside Down; or, The Human Flies | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1899 | Attack on a Piquet | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1899 | A Camp Smithy | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1898 | Tommy Atkins in the Park | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1898 | A Favourite Domestic Scene | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1898 | Come Along, Do! | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1898 | Tetherball, or Do-Do | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | The Young Rivals | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1897 | Cupid at the Washtub | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | Fishermen and Boat at Port Said | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1897 | Robbery | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | Women Fetching Water from the Nile | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1896 | A Sea Cave Near Lisbon | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Two AM; or, The Husband's Return | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Landing at Low Tide | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Chirgwin in His Humorous Business | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1896 | The Soldier's Courtship | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1896 | Rough Sea at Dover | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Trilby Burlesque | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Rocky Shore | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1896 | Sunderland | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1895 | The Derby 1895 | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1895 | Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1895 | Opening of the Kiel Canal | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1895 | Incident at Clovelly Cottage | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
|
Camera |
||||
1906 | The '?' Motorist | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1898 | The Launch of H.M.S. Albion | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
Crew |
||||
1907 | Laplander Feeding His Reindeer | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
1896 | Sunderland | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
Editing |
||||
1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Editing | Editor | 58 Average |