
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 |
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1897 | Fun on the Clothesline | Actor | Chasing Man | 58 Average |
1896 | Fire Brigade | Actor | Director | 58 Average |
Directing |
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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 | 58 Average |
1906 | Return of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1905 | Goaded to Anarchy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1905 | A Victim of Misfortune | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
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 | Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1903 | The Delhi Durbar | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1903 | Race for the Grand National | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1902 | Delhi Durbar | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1902 | His Only Pair | Directing | Director | 58 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 Deserter | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Cyclists and Pony Traps | 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 | Firing at the Ranges | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Training at the Regimental Depot | 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 | The Bout | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | His Brave Defender | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1900 | Army Life: Mounted Infantry | 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 | Tetherball, or Do-Do | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1898 | Come Along, Do! | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1898 | Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall | 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 | 58 Average |
1897 | Royal Princes in St. Paul's Churchyard | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Life Guards and Princes North of St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Royal Carriages Passing Westminster | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Royal Carriage Arriving at St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Head of Procession Including Bluejackets | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Queen's Carriage and Indian Escort Arriving at St. Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Dragoons Passing St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Head of Colonial Procession | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1897 | Robbery | Directing | Director | 58 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 | Our New General Servant | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Gardener Watering Plants | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Contortionist | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Comic Costume Race | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Footpads | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | On Westminster Bridge | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Footpads | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | London Street Scene / Turn Out of a Fire Brigade | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Royal Train | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Waves Breaking | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Hyde Park Bicycling Scene | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1895 | The Arrest of a Bookmaker | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
Production |
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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 | 58 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 | 58 Average |
1902 | The Extraordinary Waiter | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1902 | His Only Pair | Production | Producer | 58 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 | Briton vs. Boer | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1900 | A Railway Collision | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | Cronje's Surrender to Lord Roberts | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | His Brave Defender | 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 | Army Life: Mounted Infantry | 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 | Tetherball, or Do-Do | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1898 | Come Along, Do! | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | The Young Rivals | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | Cupid at the Washtub | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | Robbery | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1897 | Women Fetching Water from the Nile | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1897 | Fishermen and Boat at Port Said | 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 | Chirgwin in His Humorous Business | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1896 | Landing at Low Tide | Production | Producer | 58 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 | Fire Brigade | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Sunderland | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
1896 | Rocky Shore | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
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 |
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S.S. Columbia | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
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Camera |
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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 |
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1907 | Laplander Feeding His Reindeer | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
1896 | Sunderland | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
1896 | London Street Scene / Turn Out of a Fire Brigade | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
Editing |
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1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Editing | Editor | 58 Average |