Walter R. Booth
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Walter Robert Booth was a British magician and early pioneer of British film. Collaborating with Robert W. Paul and then Charles Urban mostly on "trick" films, he pioneered techniques that led to what has been described as the first British animated film, The Hand of the Artist (1906).
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Filmography 40
The '?' Motorist
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
The Airship Destroyer
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Artistic Creation
An Over-Incubated Baby
A Railway Collision
The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant
The Magic Sword
A Lively Quarter Day
Animated Putty
The Waif and the Wizard
The Extraordinary Waiter
Pocket Boxers
The Sorceror's Scissors
The Aerial Submarine
Comedy Cartoons
The Jester's Joke
The Miser's Doom
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent
Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent
Secrets of British Animation48 credits on file
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About this person
Walter Robert Booth was a British magician and early pioneer of British film. Collaborating with Robert W. Paul and then Charles Urban mostly on "trick" films, he pioneered techniques that led to what has been described as the first British animated film, The Hand of the Artist (1906). Booth is also notable for making the earliest film adaptation of A Christmas Carol with the silent film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost (1901).
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