Paul's Animatograph Works

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth and was filmed at Paul's Animatograph Works. It was released in November 1901. As was common in cinema's early days, the filmmakers chose to adapt an already well-known story, in this case A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in the belief that the audience's familiarity with the story would result in the need for fewer intertitles. It was presented in 'Twelve Tableaux' or scenes.

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

Here we present a picture that simply convulses an audience with laughter. The scene opens in the bedroom of a hotel. A traveler appears, evidently a "little worse for wear." After stretching and yawning, he proceeds to disrobe. He throws off his coat and vest, but to his surprise and anguish, he suddenly finds himself clothed in a continental uniform. He throws this off in anger, but immediately a policeman's costume flies on him. This is in turn thrown aside in great rage and he finds himself clothed in a soldier's uniform. At last, thinking himself successful, he makes for the bed and finds a skeleton complacently resting on his pillow. The bed suddenly disappears, leaving him seated on the floor, and great quantities of bed clothes rain down from the ceiling. The picture ends leaving the audience simply convulsed in laughter. (Edison Catalog)

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

The passenger steamer Columbia leaves Rothesay pier.

Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.

Man robbed of spectacles mistakes tramp for girl, etc.

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Old woman sews patch on grandson’s trousers while friends jeer.

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

The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back down on a parallel track.

Three athletes make their way to wicker baskets that contain a mishmash of wacky costumes. They need to dress up as quickly as they can, and make their way back on the running track.

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

A tramp steals food from a picnicking professor and is blown up.