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 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Film, 1895
Series
Reference code: 178D15
Scope and Contents
Copies of the Opening of the Kiel Canal film.
Dates:
1895
Letters to Mrs Sidney Birt Acres from the British Film Institute, 1981 - 1982
File — Box Birt Acres Box 6: Series 178B29; Series 178E12; Series 178F30; Series 178G39; Series 178H23; Series 178P8
Reference code: 178F30.5
Scope and Contents
Letters to Mrs S. Birt Acres from the British Film Institute.
Dates:
1981 - 1982
Opening of The Kiel Canal Film, 1895
Item — Box Birt Acres Box 5: Series 178D15; Series 178Z48
Reference code: 178D15.1
Scope and Contents
Copy of the Opening of Kiel Canal film, Tom Merry lightening cartoonist and other films made by Birt Acres, 35mm. Copy produced by BFI, silent, black and white.
Dates:
1895
Opening of The Kiel Canal Film, 1895
Item — Box Birt Acres Box 5: Series 178D15; Series 178Z48
Reference code: 178D15.2
Scope and Contents
Copy of the Opening of Kiel Canal film made by Birt Acres, 35mm. Copy produced by BFI, silent, black and white.
Dates:
1895