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Walter R. Booth

Walter R. Booth

Worcester, England, UK

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 poster
Secrets of British Animation
2018 • Self (archive Footage)
Comedy Cartoons poster
Comedy Cartoons
1907 • The artist
No Image
The Hand of the Artist
1906
A Lively Quarter Day poster
A Lively Quarter Day
1906 • The conjurer
Artistic Creation poster
Artistic Creation
1901 • The cartoonist
No Image
Undressing Extraordinary
1901
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies poster
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
1899 • Professor of spiritualism