
Person
Walter R. Booth
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- From
- Worcester, England, UK
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).
Images
Credits

Upside Down; or, The Human Flies

Artistic Creation

A Lively Quarter Day
Undressing Extraordinary
The Hand of the Artist

Comedy Cartoons

Secrets of British Animation

The Magic Sword

Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost

The '?' Motorist

An Extraordinary Cab Accident

The Airship Destroyer

The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant

A Railway Collision

An Over-Incubated Baby

The Waif and the Wizard

The Extraordinary Waiter

The Haunted Curiosity Shop