Walter R. Booth
Film director
1869 – 1938
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Who was Walter R. Booth?
Walter Robert Booth 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 the use of hand-drawing techniques that led to the first British animated film, The Hand of the Artist.
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- Born
- Jul 12, 1869
Worcester - Also known as
- Walter Booth
- W. R. Booth
- W.R. Booth
- Walter Robert Booth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- 1938
Birmingham
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on July 23, 2013
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