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Robert W. Paul

Producer, Director, Editor, Actor, Additional Credits
Born October 4, 1869Died March 28, 1943 (73 years)
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

  • The '?' Motorist
  • The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures
  • Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
  • Come Along, Do!
  • An Extraordinary Cab Accident
  • The Haunted Curiosity Shop
  • The Derby 1895
  • Blackfriars Bridge
  • The Twins' Tea Party
  • A Sea Cave Near Lisbon
  • The Launch of H.M.S. Albion
  • Two AM; or, The Husband's Return
  • Artistic Creation
  • Comic Costume Race
  • Upside Down; or, the Human Flies
  • Hyde Park Bicycling Scene
  • Royal Train

Filmography

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