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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 726 Collections and/or Records:

With Love and Hisses, The Redskins Attack, Stage Coach, Feast of Ishitar, Destry, and Dog Heaven Film, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 27: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.263
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 300 Feet. Silent, with both colour and black and white footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Laurel and Hardy in Travelling Companions scene from 'With Love and Hisses'. James Ellison in 'The Redskins Attack'. Tom Mix and Tony in 'Destry'. Pete and Our Gang in 'Dog Heaven'. Also features skeleton dance, King of the Jungle, animal scenes from Kruger Park South Africa, elephants from Chessington Park, Elmo Lincoln with elephant (in...
Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Wonderland Poster, 29 March 1897

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.31
Scope and Contents

Last week of the Biograph, Hanley, Logan and Hanley, Little Annie Laughine, Meyer Cohen, The McDounough Trio, Harry C. Stanley and Adele Jackson, Gilbert Girard, Waiting for Hubby, Kechum & Stuffem's Sausage Factory, Pussy's Bath, Why Papa Can't Sleep, Drunken Acrobat, 13th Infantry U.S. Army, Caught in the Act, Prodigal's Return, Hard Wash, Empire Express. Black type and black illustration of two men and a woman dancing in the centre on brown background.

Dates: 29 March 1897
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

World's 1st Movies Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 18: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.171
Scope and Contents

8mm. 200 feet. Black and white, silent. Combination of early shorts from the 'Collectors Club' series.

Dates: c1932 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour Film, c July 1896

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.7
Scope and Contents

Nitrate film by Birt Acres, showing brief fragments of a film that survives in the Henville Collection in the National Film and Television Archive.

Dates: c July 1896
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / George Williams Collection / Film

Young Men’s Christian Association, Sheffield Programme, 19 October 1901

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.37
Scope and Contents

Programme of the President's 'At Home' Cinematograph by Mr Jasper Redfern. 4pp.

Dates: 19 October 1901
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Programmes

Your Darn Tooting, Slips Don’t Count, Riding the Goat and Lizzies of the Field Film, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 31: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.301
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Hal Roach Studios. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Laurel and Hardy in 'Your Darn Tooting'. Walter Hiers in 'Riding the Goat'. Billy Bevan and Sid Smith in Grab and Tackle extract from 'Lizzies of the Field'. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

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