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Walter R. Booth

Walter R. Booth

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).

On screen

  • Secrets of British Animation
  • Comedy Cartoons
  • A Lively Quarter Day
  • Artistic Creation
  • Upside Down; or, The Human Flies

Behind the camera

  • The Jester's Joke
  • Animated Putty
  • The Aerial Submarine
  • The Airship Destroyer
  • The Sorceror's Scissors
  • Comedy Cartoons
  • The '?' Motorist
  • An Extraordinary Cab Accident
  • Pocket Boxers
  • Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent
  • Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent
  • The Extraordinary Waiter
  • The Magic Sword
  • Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
  • The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
  • An Over-Incubated Baby
  • The Waif and the Wizard
  • Artistic Creation
  • The Haunted Curiosity Shop
  • The Devil in the Studio
  • A Railway Collision
  • Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
  • The Miser's Doom

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