Walter R. Booth
Walter R. Booth ( born July 12, 1869 in Worcester, † 1938 in Birmingham) was a British magician and filmmaker.
Life
Booth initially underwent training as a porcelain painter. By the way, he worked as an amateur magician until he joined in the 1890s, the wizard Company at the Egyptian Hall in London. From 1899 he produced for Robert William Paul cartoons. Movies like Devil in the Studio from 1901, The Voyage of the Arctic from 1903 and The '?' Motorist of 1906 show the influence of Georges Méliès. In 1901 he also produced with Scrooge, or Marley 's Ghost and Mr. Pickwick's Christmas at Wardle 's two of the oldest Christmas movies. In 1906 he went to the Charles Urban Trading Company in London, where he opened his own study in his garden in Isleworth, with Harold Bastick as a cameraman. In 1906 there the first British animated film The Hand of the Artist, the year after The Sorcerer's Scissors and When the Devil Drives. With works such as The Airship Destroyer (1909 ) and The Aerial Submarine (1910 ) he developed proto- science fiction stories with invasion fantasies, already let the quite think of Jules Verne. Between 1899 and 1916 he produced a hundred short comedies and fantasy films. 1915 Booth moved into the commercial film industry, which is known about the course of his work little.