Walter R. Booth
Directing
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).
Filmography
Secrets of British Animation
Self (archive Footage)
The Jester's Joke
Animated Putty
The Aerial Submarine
The Airship Destroyer
The Sorceror's Scissors
Comedy Cartoons
The artist
The '?' Motorist
A Lively Quarter Day
The conjurer
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
Artistic Creation
The cartoonist
The Waif and the Wizard
The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
An Over-Incubated Baby
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
The Devil in the Studio
A Railway Collision
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Professor of spiritualism
The Miser's Doom