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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:

Leading Lizzie Astray, Shooting Wild, The Adventurer, Three Bruins Go Camping, and Painting the Town Film, 1914 - 1919

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 25: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.244
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Keystone Film Company. 300 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Fatty Artbuckle in 'Leading Lizzie Astray'. Charles Chaplin in 'The Adventurer'. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 'Painting the Town'. Also features nude scenes from striphouse.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

Lens in Brass Case, c1870 - 1918

 Item
Reference code: 178Z48.2
Scope and Contents

Birt Acres’ lens in brass casing, cylindrical brass case from which a cylindrical lens is extracted, all house within a wooden tube with a cork stopper.

Dates: c1870 - 1918

Lenses and Prisms, c1870 - 1918

 File
Reference code: 178Z48.1
Scope and Contents

Bit Acres’ experimental clear and colour lenses and prisms.

Dates: c1870 - 1918

Letter and Pass from Jasper Redfern, 5 June 1907

 File — Box Fred Holmes Box 1: Series 178C109; Series 178F21; Series 178G20; Series 178H14; Series 178I18
Reference code: 178F21.4
Scope and Contents

Letter with Special Pass.

Dates: 5 June 1907

Letter from Fred Holmes, 1900

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 1: Series 178C109; Series 178F21; Series 178G20; Series 178H14; Series 178I18
Reference code: 178F21.3
Scope and Contents

Letter from Fred Holmes.

Dates: 1900

Letter from Howards and Sons to Ltd Sidney Birt Acres, 7 July 1937

 Item
Reference code: 178F30.1
Scope and Contents

Letter from Howards and Sons to Ltd Sidney Birt Acres in response to his enquiry about information on different solvents. Howards and Sons Ltd Chemical Manufacturers headed letter paper with pencil notes on reverse, 1p.

Dates: 7 July 1937

Letter of Recommendation for Kevin Acres from Gordon Pagan of Linear Graphics Limited, c1900 - 1999

 Item
Reference code: 178F30.6
Scope and Contents

Letter of recommendation for Kevin Acres from Gordon Pagan of Linear Graphics Limited.

Dates: c1900 - 1999

Letters, 1900 - 1914

 File — Box Fred Holmes Box 1: Series 178C109; Series 178F21; Series 178G20; Series 178H14; Series 178I18
Reference code: 178F21.5
Scope and Contents

Various letters.

Dates: 1900 - 1914

Letters from Jasper Redfern to Fred Holmes, 1903 - 1910

 File — Box Fred Holmes Box 1: Series 178C109; Series 178F21; Series 178G20; Series 178H14; Series 178I18
Reference code: 178F21.1
Scope and Contents

Letters, envelopes, stamps and tickets. Includes one photocopy.

Dates: 1903 - 1910

Letters to Alan Acres, 2000 - 2010

 File
Reference code: 178F30.4
Scope and Contents

Letters to Alan Acres.

Dates: 2000 - 2010

Letters to Fred Holmes from various people, 1903 - 1910

 File — Box Fred Holmes Box 1: Series 178C109; Series 178F21; Series 178G20; Series 178H14; Series 178I18
Reference code: 178F21.2
Scope and Contents

Letters, envelopes, stamps and tickets.

Dates: 1903 - 1910

Letters to Mrs Sidney Birt Acres from the British Film Institute, 1981 - 1982

 File
Reference code: 178F30.5
Scope and Contents

Letters to Mrs S. Birt Acres from the British Film Institute.

Dates: 1981 - 1982

Lion, The Finishing Touch, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 24: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.233
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Edgar Kennedy in The Builders scene from 'The Finishing Touch'. John Wayne in 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' western. Also features nude scenes. As well as animal scenes including seals, sea lions and penguins.

Dates: c1907 - 2001

Llandudno Pier Company Limited Programme, 13 August 1907

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.134
Scope and Contents

Red and white photograph of the beack and red type on white background on the front cover listing members of the orchestra, inside concert programme, on back cover The Royal American Bioscope at the Pier Varieties Theatre, 2p.p.

Dates: 13 August 1907

London Hippodrome Programme, 29 July 1907

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.62
Scope and Contents

Variety programme, listing various acts including Chung Ling Soo, with programme in centre including Macate Sisters, Leonard Gautier's performing ponies, The Four Magnanis, Alfred Loyal, The Chrono Megaphone, Clown Pinta, The Black Hussars, Leipsig, Johnny Watson, The Globe of Life, Paul Conchas and the American Bioscope. Also contains commercial advertising. Light blue covers with white type, 10p.p.

Dates: 29 July 1907

London Hippodrome Programme, 30 November 1914

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.64
Scope and Contents

Colour illustration of woman dresses in flags of the allied countries during world war one on white background. Inside commercial advertising and programme including Gerano, bioscope, Kartelli, 'Business as Usual' a war related play and patriotic songs, also projection of films from the front, 12p.p.

Dates: 30 November 1914

Louise Tussaud's New Exhibition Programme, c1891-1892

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.121
Scope and Contents

St. Jame's Great Hall, Oxford Street, Manchester. Black type and colour centre containing the names of Tussaud's staff and officials on the front cover, inside programme listing Mr Percival Craig, Sydney Gandy and Miss Inglefield, Professor Bracken, Living Pictures or Tableaux Vivant and The Grand Panorama, on back cover Chamber of Horrors, 2p.p.

Dates: c1891-1892

Man Eater at Large Film, 1926

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 20: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.188
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Mack Sennett. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film, starring Billy Beavan and Andy Clyde.

Dates: 1926

Manuscripts and Research Material, c1995 - 2005

 Series
Reference code: 178B29
Scope and Contents

Research material related to the life of Birt Acres conducted by his grandson Alan Acres, mainly for writing Fonstiersman to Film-Maker book.

Dates: c1995 - 2005

Manuscripts for Frontiersman to Film-Maker Book, c1995 - 2005

 Item
Reference code: 178B29.1
Scope and Contents

Original manuscript for 'Frontiersman to film-maker' the biography of film pioneer Birt Acres 1854-1918 book by Alan Acres, in red ring binder. Typescript.

Dates: c1995 - 2005