Robert W. Paul

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in excitement but are moved aside by a member of the regiment. Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing a large profile caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The loss of the rest of the film has bequeathed us 6 seconds that are of Mechem standing next to the completed portrait and sadly, that is all there is. An early film made by Birt Acres for R.W. Paul. (see release information for further detail).

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.