Robert Paul was an electrician and scientific instrument maker, with offices at Hatton Garden in London. He was approached by two Greek businessmen who had obtained an Edison kinetoscope and the Lumieres happened around the same time. Paul was not only an inventor but a filmmaker and distributor. He pioneered a number of cinema techniques and constructed the first purpose built studio in Britain. Curiously enough, he moved out of films altogether by 1910, though he is credited with virtually inventing the British film industry--he was known to everyone as "Daddy Paul".
Was an electrical engineer by trade.
Was the first Englishman to give a motion picture exhibition before a fee-paying audience.
In 1896, he designed a working film projector, which used a Maltese Cross, or Geneva, type of intermittent movement. Months laster he produced a new type of film camera using the same principle. It was a success.
Was originally a scientific instrument maker in London.
Creator of the camera dolly.
Co-founder (w/Birt Acres ) of British production company Robert W. Paul Productions, formed in 1895.
