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Birt Acres Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0055
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
c1870 - 2005
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
George Williams Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0118
Scope and Contents
Collection of early films related to the first year of film-making in America and the United Kingdom and nineteenth century magic lantern slides, letter, film catalogues and photographic plates.
Dates:
1890 - 1896
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive