Portrait of Walter R. Booth

Walter R. Booth

Directing

Biography

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).

Place of Birth: Worcester, England, UK

Filmography

2018
Secrets of British Animation

as Self (archive Footage)

1907
Comedy Cartoons

as The artist

1906
A Lively Quarter Day

as The conjurer

1901
Artistic Creation

as The cartoonist

1899
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies

as Professor of spiritualism