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Drewe, Noel, Active 1927 - 1995 (Circus Enthusiast)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: Active 1927 - 1995

Biography

Noel Drewe was a circus historian and collector as well as an avid film enthusiast with a keen flair for filmmaking.

He made short films shot on 8mm featuring an eclectic mix of fairground experiences, illustrating the pleasures of Battersea fun fair, Southend-on-Sea, Kent seaside, Folkstone, Clacton and Southsea on Kodachrome colour film stock.

Found in 205 Collections and/or Records:

Compilation of Various Films, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.199
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 400 Feet. Black and white, silent. Extracts from various films. Includes; 'Fatty’s Magic Pants', Giraffe and Elephant, Mr Richie Buys a Piano from 'Piano Movers' starring Charles Chaplin and Mack Swain, Snub Polland extract from'It’s a Gift', 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' starring Erroll Flynn, glamour girls, Mint a Dunfree, scenes of Deer and a Cheetah and Ben Turpin the Daredevil.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Compilation of Various Films, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.201
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 400 Feet. Silent, with both colour and black and white footage. Mixed shorts. Includes; 'Bronco Billy and the Maid' starring G.M. Anderson. 'Wiggle your Ears' starring Little Rascals, Our Gang. Lupin o Lane and Wallace Lane extract from 'Be my King'. Chimp at Chessington Zoo, comic cuts in hot water, Tom Mix and girl, tiger in a jungle, a monkey in a tree and teh perils of Pauline.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Compilation of Various Films, c1945 - 1960

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.202
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.6mm, Warner Brothers. Black and white, silent. Commercial film extracts inbcluding Good Old Corn, Chessington Zoo, Hopalong Cassidy, Lion, The Cake Maker, Joe Cobb and Pete, Stunt Riding from Calgary Cowboy Stampede, George Michael Lion, Leopard Springing, Western Scenes, Chippy Chumps, and Laurel and Hardy Busy Bodies. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1945 - 1960

Compilation of Various Films, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.204
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 350 Feet. Universal Pictures. Black and white, silent. Extracts from a variety of films. Includes; 'Winchester 73' starring Shelley Winters and Dan Dureya. Clyde Cook extract from 'The Misfit'. Victor McGladen as Dick Turpin. Harold Lloyd extract from 'Hand to Mouth'. Lex Barker as 'Tarzan'. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy extract from 'Soup to Nuts' with Anita Garvin. Rudolph Valentino extract from 'Society Sensation'. Shorty the Chip extract from...
Dates: c1932 - 1965

Compilation of Various Films, 1933

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 22: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.208
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Dixons. 300 Feet, Paramount Pictures. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; 'King of the Jungle' starring Buster Crabbe. 'Wireless Lizzie' starring Walter Hiers. Lupino Lane in' Movieland Mixup', Three Little Bruins Make Mischief, Calgary Stampede, The Music Box and 'The Pianola' starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Hall and Billy Gilbert.

Dates: 1933

Compilation of Various Films, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 22: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.209
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films including western Scenes, Uncle’s Tea Party, Heather Rose, Haunted Gainsborough, Ken Maynard, Sell it, Lovenest on Wheels, Two Girls, A Fishy Caveman Story, A Stone Age Romance, and Flying Elephants starring Harrions Marks, Ken Maynard, Heather Rose, Buster Keaton, Walter Long, and Laurel and Hardy. Also includes 'Spell it' by Stuart Wynn Jones and an extract featuring Lupino Lane.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Compilation of Various Films, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 22: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.210
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charlie Rings the Bell from 'The Fireman' starring Charlie Chaplin. 'Cave Inn' starring Ralph Graves. Round 8 and finale of the World Featherweight Boxing Championship between Howard Winstone and Mitsuri Seki. 'Tarzan’s Hideout' starring Elmo Lincoln.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Compilation of Various Films and Animal Scenes Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.203
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Cyldon. 300 Feet. Chadwick Pictures. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; 'Kid Speed' starring Larry Semon and Oliver Hardy. 'The Range Busters' starring Cary ‘Crash’ Corrigan, John King and Ray ‘Alibi’ Terhure. 'The Rink' starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell. Woodenheads extract from 'Busy Bodies' starring Laurel and Hardy. Pack up your Troubles, Swiss Miss, Jitterbugs (parponus), and Saps at Sea...
Dates: c1932 - 1965

Compilation of Various Films and Zoo Scenes Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.197
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 300 Feet. In colour with sound including the Mad World of Mack Sennett, Chip the Fireman, Hopalong Cassidy, and Lion and Bear at Chessington, supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Copy of Trapeze Film, c1965 - 1979

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 13: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.107
Scope and Contents

Super8, Grasso. In colour, with sound. Feature film starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida. Distributed by Derann. Directed by Carol Reed. Susan Productions Inc.

Dates: c1965 - 1979

Crazy Emeus Film, c1945 - 1960

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 10: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.74
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathetoscope. Black and white, silent. Box notes read, "All the Thrills, Spills & Chariots, Clowns etc. All in one reel of pleasure". Ilkeston Line Centre.

Dates: c1945 - 1960

Days of Thrill and Laughter and Monty Banks' Train Ride Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 32: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.314
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 200 feet. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Do Detectives Think (The Bodyguard) Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 19: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.174
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Paterson. Hal Roach Studios. Black and white, silent. Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson and Noah Young.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Duo Sidelnikov Film, c1962 - 1993

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 17: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.164
Scope and Contents

VHS PAL.

Dates: c1962 - 1993

Elephants Elbows Film, 1938

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 14: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.131
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, G. B. Ferrosonic Tape. Silent, colour-tinted. Note on case reads "A juvenile 2 reel comedy from the Kodascope Library".

Dates: 1938

Extract from The Story of Three Loves Film, c1965 - 1979

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 14: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.115
Scope and Contents

Super8. Trapeze act extract from 'The Story of Three Loves' starring Kirk Douglas and Pier Angeli.

Dates: c1965 - 1979

Extracts from Circus Films, c1965 - 1979

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 14: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.126
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Super8, F.I.N.S. 400 feet, 30 minutes long. Extracts from films including Snooky's Crazy Outing, The Chuckleheads, Chase Winnie Chase, Ginger Nut’s Christmas Circus, Hold that Lion, The Three Stooges, and Circus Slickers. Note on box reads "To be used in Pixies Circusama". Includes W.C. Fields.

Dates: c1965 - 1979

Extracts from Feature Circus Films, c1965 - 1979

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 14: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.118
Scope and Contents

Super8. Extracts filmed from the television.

Dates: c1965 - 1979

Extracts from Mack Sennett’s Lion, Circus Boy and Circus Today Films, c1945 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 14: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.125
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. Extracts from feature films starring Laurel and Hardy and Jerry Madden.

Dates: c1945 - 1965

Extracts from Mack Sennett's Lion, Cops Ahoy and Animals Films, c1945 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 14: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.124
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Plio Magic. Many extracts from films featuring the Moscow State Circus, featuring Amazing Lion Act and Giant Trampoline Act. Includes scenes from the films 'Jealousy in the Circus', 'The Lion Tamer', and 'It’s in the Balance'.

Dates: c1945 - 1965

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  • Subject: Circus X

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Type
Archival Object 204
Collection 1
 
Subject
Acrobats 6
Aerialists 8
Amusement rides 3
Animal trainers 7
Animals 51