Biography
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).
Directed 25
1910s
- 1912
The Jester's Joke
Director
- 1911
The Automatic Motorist
Director
Animated Putty
Director
- 1910
The Aerial Submarine
Director
1900s
- 1909
The Airship Destroyer
Director
Animated Cotton
Director
- 1907
The Sorceror's Scissors
Director
Comedy Cartoons
Director
- 1906
- 1903
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Director
Pocket Boxers
Director
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent
Director
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent
Director
- 1902
The Extraordinary Waiter
Director
- 1901
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
Director
The Magic Sword
Director
Artistic Creation
Director
The Waif and the Wizard
Director
The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
Director
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
Director
The Devil in the Studio
Director
An Over-Incubated Baby
Director
- 1900
A Railway Collision
Director
1890s
- 1899
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Director
The Miser's Doom
Director
Acted in 4
1900s
- 1907
Comedy Cartoons
The artist
- 1906
A Lively Quarter Day
The conjurer
- 1901
Artistic Creation
The cartoonist
1890s
- 1899
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Professor of spiritualism
Wrote 1
1900s
- 1901
The Magic Sword
Writer
Appearances1
2010s
- 2018
Secrets of British Animation
Self (archive Footage)