Drewe, Noel, Active 1927 - 1995 (Circus Enthusiast)
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 343 Collections and/or Records:
Sawdust and Tinsel Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathetoscope. 300 feet, 12 minutes long. Black and White, Silent.
Sawdust Ring, Circus Thrills No.3, Circus Comes to Town, Big Top, and Bertram Mills Circus 1958 Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathescope. Includes Ron Harris, Belle Vue Circus, Alby Dustin and Billy Merchant. Circus Comes to Town is Silent. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.
Sawdust Ring, The Kids Last Fight, Togare and his Tigers, Days of Thrills and Laughter, Charlie the Busker, Bertram Mills Chimps, Leon I The Human Cannon Ball, Bertram Mills Clowns, Kill or Cure, and Jumbo’s Test Match Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. Extracts from feature films. Includes Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Geo Rowe, and John Gindl from Bertram Mills Circus Olympia, London.
Scenes from I'm No Angel Film, 1933
Super8, Grasso. Castle Films. Silent. Starring Mae West.
Secrets of Life, Wake Up and Feed, The Grizzly Bear, Walter’s Paying Policy, The Palce Face, King of the Jungle, and You’re Darn Tootin Film, 1930 - 1939
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Gaumont-British Instructional. 400 feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Harold Lloyd in a dual role in 'The Grizzly Bear'. Walter Forde in 'Walter’s Paying Policy'. Buster Keaton in 'The Pale Face'. Buster Crabbe and lions in 'King of the Jungle'. Also features animal scenes including; hippopotamus, pelicans, seals, giraffes, tigers, lions, deer, poodle dogs and cat.
See How They Run Film, c1907 - 2001
8mm, Eismig. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film.
Shooting Wild on Access Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 200 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Note on box reads, "Seen at the Zoo and Caught Snapping".
Short Subjects Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Actina. Black and White, Silent. Includes Micky Breaks Jail, Pearl Harbour, Pepperly Popeye, Birdies Love Cats, and Big Cheese Popeye. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.
Sir Robert Fosset and Fosset Bros. Circus Film, c1907 - 2001
8mm, G. B. Ferrosonic Tape. Silent, in Colour. Includes Parson's Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, Boxmoor, and the Trust Lands at Hemel Hempstead. Copied to DVD 6 and DIGI-BETA.
Ski Jump Bronco, and Motorcycle Wire Act Film, 1967
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Super8, Boots. In Colour, Silent. Amateur film. Supplied by C. W. Cramp. Copied to DVD 7 and DIGI-BETA.
Snooky's Crazy Outing, The Chuckleheads, Chase Winnie Chase, Ginger Nut’s Christmas Circus, Hold that Lion, The Three Stooges, and Circus Slickers Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Super8, F.I.N.S. 400 feet, 30 minutes long. Extracts from films. Note on box reads "To be used in Pixies Circusama". Includes W.C. Fields.
Snow White and the Three Stooges, The Glass Mountain, and Wandering Willies Film, 1960 - 1969
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Emitape. 350 feet. Chanford. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Including; Michael Dennison, Dulcie Grey, Valentina Cortess, Tito Gobby and Sebastian Shaw in a trailer of 'The Glass Mountain'. Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde in 'Wandering Willies' . Supplied by C. W. Cramp.
Soho Striptease Film, 1960
8mm, Petco Reel. 400 feet. Black and White, with Sound. Banned film, possibly rare. Copied to DVD 6 and DIGI-BETA.
Some Bird! Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterday Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathescope. 300 feet, 12 minutes long. Includes Glen Tyron.
Stan the Foreman, Joey the Donkey, The Range Busters, Easy Street, and Safety Last Film, c1907 - 2001
8mm, 200 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Stan Laurel in 'Stan the Foreman'. Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan, Dusty King and Max Terhune in 'The Range Busters'. Charles Chaplin in 'Easy Street'. Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis in 'Safety Last'. Also features a Trapeze act from an airplane, and sheep.
Steam Fair Recording, c1907 - 2001
Fairground Music. 1/4 Audio Reel. Recording by Robert Allen (Sound) Ltd.
Steam Fair Recording, c1907 - 2001
Fairground Music, Traction Engines. 1/4 Audio Reel. Recording by Robert Allen (Sound) Ltd.
Steam Fair Recording, 1978
Fairground Music. Suffolk. 1/4 Audio Reel. Recording by Robert Allen (Sound) Ltd.
Steam Fayre Film, c1907 - 2001
Super8, Mountain Films Ltd. 200 feet, 12 minutes long. In Colour, with Sound. Copied to DVD 7 and DIGI-BETA. Note reads 'sound on this copy in Arabic?'
Sugar Daddies, Hot Dogs, The Indians are Coming, Misbehaving Husbands, and Double Whoopee Film, 1920 - 1929
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Hal Roach Studios. 300 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Laurel and Hardy, Noah Young and James Finlayson in 'Sugar Daddies'. Charles Chaplin in 'Hot Dogs'. Col Tim McCoy and Edmund Cobb in 'The Indians are Coming'. Laurel and Hardy, Jean Harlow and Edrich Vonstroheim in 'Double Whoopee'.
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 342
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Acrobats 1
- Aerialists 5
- Amusement rides 3
- Animal trainers 3
- Animals 83
- Boxing 6
- Caricatures and cartoons 3
- Circus 205
- Circus workers 1
- Clowning 3
- Comedians 24
- Fairground art 1
- Fairs 20
- Magic 2
- Motion pictures 114
- Music 3
- Performers 8
- Puppets 1
- Showman 1
- Striptease 7
- Stunt performers 2
- Transport 5
- Wild west 3
- World's fairs and expositions 1
- Wrestling 1
- Zoos 15 + ∧ less