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 |
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 | 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 | Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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 | 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 | Phantom Ride, Chamonix | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Firing at the Ranges | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | The Training of Infantry | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | The Deserter | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | Training Cavalry Horses: The Recruit's First Ride | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1900 | The Bout | 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 | Cyclists and Pony Traps | 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 | Come Along, Do! | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1898 | A Switchback Railway | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1898 | Tetherball, or Do-Do | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1898 | Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1898 | The Launch of H.M.S. Albion | 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 | Head of Procession Including Bluejackets | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Royal Princes in St. Paul's Churchyard | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Royal Carriage Arriving at St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Robbery | Directing | Director | 58 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 | Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Royal Carriages Passing Westminster | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Life Guards and Princes North of St Paul's | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1897 | Dragoons Passing St Paul's | 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 | Contortionist | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Our New General Servant | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Footpads | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | Waves Breaking | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1896 | On Westminster Bridge | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1896 | Hyde Park Bicycling Scene | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Comic Costume Race | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1896 | Royal Train | 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 | 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 | The Kiddies' Cakewalk | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1903 | An Extraordinary Cab Accident | Production | Producer | 58 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 | Cronje's Surrender to Lord Roberts | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | An Exciting Pillow Fight | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1900 | Entry of the Scots' Guards into Bloemfontein | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1900 | His Brave Defender | Production | Producer | 58 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 | 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 | 59 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 | 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 | Blackfriars Bridge | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1896 | Trilby Burlesque | 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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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 |
Editing |
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1896 | Blackfriars Bridge | Editing | Editor | 58 Average |