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Robert W. Paul

Robert W. Paul

Biography

Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English film pioneer and scientific instrument maker. He began producing narrative films as early as April 1895, initially shown on Edison Kinetoscope-style devices, and by 1896 he was projecting them—around the same time the Lumière brothers were developing projected cinema in France. In addition to his filmmaking, Paul achieved success as an inventor, notably creating the Unipivot galvanometer. In 1999, the British film industry honored his contributions with a commemorative plaque at his former workshop at 44 Hatton Garden, London.

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

139

Gender

Male

Birthday

1869-10-04

Place of Birth

Highbury, London, England, UK

Also Known As

R.W. Paul, Robert William Paul, Robert Paul

Known For

Fun on the Clothesline Fire Brigade Waves Breaking Blackfriars Bridge The '?' Motorist The Arrest of a Bookmaker Hyde Park Bicycling Scene Head of Procession Including Bluejackets The Twins' Tea Party On Westminster Bridge Royal Train Royal Carriages Passing Westminster Dragoons Passing St Paul's Head of Colonial Procession Life Guards and Princes North of St Paul's Royal Carriage Arriving at St Paul's Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's Royal Princes in St. Paul's Churchyard Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall Queen's Carriage and Indian Escort Arriving at St. Paul's Return of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary Celebrations Landing at Low Tide Sunderland An Extraordinary Cab Accident A Lively Quarter Day Delhi Durbar Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost A Sea Cave Near Lisbon Our New General Servant Contortionist The Launch of H.M.S. Albion The Derby 1900 Hammerfest Robbery Training Cavalry Horses: The Recruit's First Ride The King and Queen's Visit to Berlin Come Along, Do! Cupid at the Washtub Phantom Ride, Chamonix The Football Final Gardener Watering Plants The Delhi Durbar Scene on the River Thames The Bout The Training of Infantry A Switchback Railway Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race 1901 The Deonzo Brothers Entry of the Scots' Guards into Bloemfontein Two AM; or, The Husband's Return The Deserter Comic Costume Race Chirgwin in His Humorous Business Attack on a Piquet A Camp Smithy Domesticated Elephants Army Life: Mounted Infantry Race for the Grand National The Countryman and the Cinematograph Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War Tommy Atkins in the Park Cyclists and Pony Traps Firing at the Ranges Tetherball, or Do-Do An Exciting Pillow Fight Cronje's Surrender to Lord Roberts Training at the Regimental Depot The Butterfly The Extraordinary Waiter The Derby The Haunted Curiosity Shop A Railway Collision His Brave Defender Drat That Boy! Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor Rough Sea at Dover Laplander Feeding His Reindeer Opening of the Kiel Canal The Vanishing Lady The Waif and the Wizard The Soldier's Courtship Chinese Magic Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee A Collier's Life Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II The Derby 1895 Clog Dancing Contest for the Championship of England The Young Rivals A Favourite Domestic Scene His Only Pair Rocky Shore Short-Sighted Sammy Trilby Burlesque Children in the Nursery Upside Down; or, The Human Flies Coronation Durbar at Delhi The Kiddies' Cakewalk Whaling Afloat and Ashore Fishermen and Boat at Port Said Women Fetching Water from the Nile Incident at Clovelly Cottage The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race On a Runaway Motor-Car Through Piccadilly Circus Briton vs. Boer S.S. Columbia London Street Scene / Turn Out of a Fire Brigade Plucked From The Burning A Football Match at Newcastle-on-Tyne The Trick Cyclist The Kaiser at Portsmouth Rotten Row His Mother's Portrait, or The Soldier's Vision The Fatal Hand
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