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Motion pictures

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on motion pictures themselves, including motion pictures as an art form, copyrighting, distribution, editing, plots, production, etc. NFCA: Use for cinema and bioscope

Found in 717 Collections and/or Records:

Central Hall, Sheffield Programme, 6 May 1907

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.53
Scope and Contents

Jasper Redfern's World-renowned Animated Pictures and refined Vaudeville Entertainments. 4pp.

Dates: 6 May 1907

Central Hall, Sheffield Programme, 13 May 1907

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.54
Scope and Contents

Jasper Redfern's World-renowned Animated Pictures and refined Vaudeville Entertainments. 4pp.

Dates: 13 May 1907

Central Hall, Sheffield Programme, 16 December 1907

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.55
Scope and Contents

Jasper Redfern's World-renowned Animated Pictures and refined Vaudeville Entertainments. 1 page of programme only.

Dates: 16 December 1907

Central Higher School, Sheffield Programme, 23 February 1900

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.20
Scope and Contents

Selections on Edison's Grand Concert Phonograph, followed by demonstrations of Photography in Natural Colours by Mr Jasper Redfern. 4pp.

Dates: 23 February 1900

Certificate, 10 August 1892

 Item
Reference code: 178Z64.14
Scope and Contents

Document certifying that Fred Lionel Mayer did his first appearance on Poole's New Myriorama with signatures on the bottom section, on Poole's Myriorama letter headed paper with red and white illustrations of people from around the world standing behing a globe held by a cherub and the figure of Britannia pointing a trident towards it. Manuscript.

Dates: 10 August 1892

Charlie Nursemaid, and Our Relations Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 28: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.270
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Fins. 400 Feet. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand in 'Charlies Nursemaid'. Laurel and Hardy in Double Trouble scene from 'Our Relations'. Also features cartoons; The Great Scape with Yogi Bear, Dino the Hero from The Flinstones. As well as scenes of birds, and female nudity.

Dates: c1907 - 2001

Chemical Balance, c1870 - 1918

 Item
Reference code: 178Z48.3
Scope and Contents

Small wooden and brass balance and six weights belonging to Birt Acres.

Dates: c1870 - 1918

Chemical Balance, c1870 - 1918

 Item
Reference code: 178Z48.4
Scope and Contents

Birt Acres’ chemical balance, collapsible wooden and brass balance with drawer containing different components, weights and tweezers.

Dates: c1870 - 1918

Chimp the Cowboy, The Misfit, Girl in the Wood, From Hand to Mouth, Dick Turpin, She Devil, and Soup to Nuts Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 31: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.307
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 320 feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Clyde Cook in 'The Misfit'. Victor McGlagden in 'Dick Turpin'. Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard and Noah Young in 'From Hand to Mouth'. Lex Barker as Tarzan in 'She Devil'. Laurel and Hardy, Anita Garvin and Tiny Sandford in 'Soup to Nuts'. Also features girl in top hat, glamour girls, and animal scenes including deer and bear.

Dates: c1907 - 2001

Chiswick Empire Programme, 26 January 1914

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.111
Scope and Contents

Three fold programme, white and blue type and illustration of the interior of the theatre and commercial advertising on the outside, inside commercial advertising and programme listing The Dennisons, Frederick Sylvester & Co., Sammy Shields, Joe Peterman, The McNaughtons, The Seven Tagged Gipsy Girls, Daisy Sloan, Fred Karno and On the Bioscope big game hunting in central Africa.

Dates: 26 January 1914

Cinema: The First 75 Years Article, Published 20 September 1970

 Item
Reference code: 178B9.5
Scope and Contents

First of a ten part series on all aspects of film monograph published in the Sunday Times magazine, London, pages 29-52. Contains Illustrations.

Dates: Published 20 September 1970

Cinematograph Act 1909 Licence, 1913

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178Z31.8
Scope and Contents

A copy of the Cinematograph Act 1909 Licence in an envelope.

Dates: 1913

Cines Antony & Cleopatra Programme, 9 February 1917 and during the week

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.155
Scope and Contents

King's Hall, High Street, Lewisham. Red and orange illustration of a ship and a sunset on the front cover, inside text and black and white photographs of scenes from the film, 6pp.

Dates: 9 February 1917 and during the week

Circus, Anlaby Road, Hull Programme, c1900 - 1920

 File — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.61
Scope and Contents

Featuring Anglo American Animated Photo Co., Jasper Redfern's No1 Vaudeville Company. 4pp. 2 Copies.

Dates: c1900 - 1920

Circus Films, c1950 - 1959

 Item
Reference code: 178D24.4
Scope and Contents This film contains scenes of animal cruelty and human casualties that may be upseting to some viewers. Copy of films on DVD showing circus parade, city scenes, the set of the film Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor for which Digger Pugh was animal director, training scene of tampolin act on an elephant outdoors with the elephant collapsing and struggling against the chains on his legs (this scene can be upseting), actors in costume, a religious pageant possibly in Spain and scene of a bull...
Dates: c1950 - 1959

Circus Friends Association Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0122
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses

Dates: 1795 - 2020

Circus Sliker Film, 1939

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 20: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.184
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 16mm, Universal Pictures. 300 feet. Black and White, with Sound. Home movie release of 'You Can’t Cheat and Honest Man', starring W.C. Fields.

Dates: 1939

Clash by Night and London Zoo Film, 1952

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.196
Scope and Contents

8mm, RKO Pictures. Black and White, with some Colour scenes. Silent. Features extracts from 'Clash by Night' starring Robert Ryan, Barbara Stanwych, Marilyn Monroe and Paul Douglas. Also includes scenes from London Zoo, and female strip tease nudity, along with extracts from other films such as Stan Laurel in 'Kill or Cure' and 'Charlie Dines Out'.

Dates: 1952

Clash by Night, Defective Detectives, and The Pawn Shop Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 29: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.273
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 350 Feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Barbara Stanwych and Robert Ryan in 'Clash by Night'. Harrison Marks in 'Defective Detectives'. Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell in 'The Pawn Shop'. Also features animal scenes from London Zoo, Indian Elephants and Hawiian girls.

Dates: c1907 - 2001

Collins's Programme, 23 January 1899

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.113
Scope and Contents

Three fold programme with green and white illustrations of two pierrot characters and a male character on the outside, inside commercial advertising and programme listing Mr Pat Carey, Miss Amy Allnutt, Mr Arthur Lennard, George Kirk and Company, Mr T.E. Dunville, Sisters Preston, The Four Poole-Pelhams, Mr Will Hebdon, Miss Lottie Lennox, Mr Harry Tate, Lotto, Lilo & Otto, Mr Tom Leamore, Edison's Pictures, Tom White's Arabs, The Leonards, The Bros. Horn, Mr Chas. Gardiner and March.

Dates: 23 January 1899