Cassette tape. Arthur Melbourne-Cooper visits Sidney Acres, Southend.

Various interviews, eight of them related to recordings conducted by Tjitte de Vries with Brit Acres' and Melbourne-Cooper's descendants and relations.

This collection contains a small amount of archival items and artefacts which belonged to Birt Acres and his son Sidney Birt Acres. The collection also includes books on early cinema, which were used as research material by Alan Acres, while writing ‘Frontiersman to Film-Maker’, and represent the archive created in the process.

Cassette tape number T001. Side A: A.M. Cooper visits. Sidney B. Acres, Southend 1956 Side B: BBC interview of A.M. Cooper interviewed by Ernest Lindgren Bush House. Part of eight cassette recordings of Tjitte de Vries of Birt Acres and Melbourne-Cooper relations. Tape N.R. VI and XII. Copy from Tjitte de Vries, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper Archive.

Various items of correspondence related to Birt Acres' business and correspondence about his life and career.

Notebook on making film stock entitled formulae, containing multiple loose notes.

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.

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

Newspaper articles written by Sidney Birt Acres or about him and a scrabook entitled Birt Acres Film Pioneer.

Notebook on film making recipes.

Notebook with recipes for film stock and emulsion containing multiple loose pages including four on typed pages on Substratum Formulae and one entitled Birt Acres rapid negative.

Notebook entitled ‘Notes on Lots of Materials, films, plates, bromide paper, post cards, etc. Also contains hand written loose pages on photographic process (rapid ammonia), standard positive emulsion, substratus as recommended by The American Celluloid Co., for their T-12 celluloid base and others.

Notebooks on film making specifications and chemical tests.

Notebook on film making recipes and film perforations data, containing four loose notes.

Photocopy of newspaper cutting from a Daily Telegraph article entitled ‘Royal Film Show’ written by Sidney Birt Acres.

Sidney Birt Acres business car. Black type on white card.

Newspaper cutting announcing the retirement of Sidney Birt Acres after 28 years of service at Ekco.

Cassette tape number T183. Visit to Mrs Sidney Acres, part 2 also with Audrey Wadowski about Birt Acres. Southend. Part of eight cassette recordings of Tjitte de Vries of Birt Acres and Melbourne-Cooper relations. Copy from Tjitte de Vries, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper Archive.