Motion pictures
Found in 723 Collections and/or Records:
Bathing Beauties, Putting Pants on Phillip, and A Dog’s Life Film, 1910 - 1919
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 325 feet. Vitagraph Company of America. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 'Putting Pants on Phillip'. Charles Chaplin in 'A Dog’s Life'. Also features scenes of nudity, and animal scenes inlcuding deer and lions.
Bathing Beauties, Shooting Wild, Putting Pants on Phillip, Palace of Turkish Delights, and Monty’s Hair Raising Train Rescue Film, 1910 - 1919
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Cyldon. 350 feet. Vitagraph Company of America. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 'Putting Pants on Phillip'. Also features glamour extracts.
Bathing Beauties, The Jazz Band Leader, and Tomahawk Territory Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Boots. 400 feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Including; Ford Sterling in 'The Jazz Band Leader'. Buffalo Bill in 'Tomahawk Territory'. Also features animal scenes including; zebras, chimps and leopards.
Bear Cubs Go Rural Film, 1957
16mm, Cyldon. 300 Feet. Universal Pictures Company. Black and White, with Sound. Commercial Film.
Below Zero, Clash by Night, Cops, and The Bank Film, 1930 - 1939
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Hal Roach Studios. 400 Feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Tiny Sandford in Bill of Fare extract from 'Below Zero'. Robert Ryan and Barbara Standwych in 'Clash by Night'. Buster Keaton in 'Cops'. Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance in 'The Bank'. Also featrues dog, parrots, tortoise and duck, nude scenes, and glamour scenes on the beach.
Ben Jackson Collection
This collection contains 16 posters, 2 handbills, 2 programmes and a small amount of business records, trade material and correspondence relating to Ben Jackson's banjo variety act.
Bernard Fielding Collection
Photographs and scrapbooks compiled by Bernard Fielding. Each scrapbook contains a mixture of press cuttings including Fairground Mercury and World’s Fair, photographs, postcards, Paul Braithwaite history and patent material. Augmented by handwritten notes and research from other enthusiasts.
Bibliography, c1994 - 2000
Photocopy of Travelling communities, showmen and gypsy wagons, language, autobiographies/biographies of showmen; general history, individual fairs, fairground equipment and art, fairground transport, bioscopes and other shows, freak shows, menageries, fairground organs, general photographic history by Vanessa Toulmin.
Biddall Family Photographs, c1880 - 1949
Black and white photographs and postcards related to the Biddall faiground showman family, including images of Funny Joe the clown, bioscope shows and fairground rides belonging to the family. Also contains a group photograph portraying three men in uniform.
Bill Barnes Collection
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Bioscope Monograph, c1890 - 1910
Early bioscope or picture shows description on paper with leather-style backing, typescript, 1p.
Birt Acres Collection
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.
Birt Acres Film Pioneer 1854 - 1918 Scrapbook, c1900 - 1999
Scrapbook copy of the ‘Black Book’ entitled Birt Acres Film Pioneer 1854-1918 containing photocopies of newspaper cuttings and photographs and typed news reports and some material on the Cinema Veterans annual reunion. Press cuttings collected by Birt Acres wife who continued to update it until her death in the 1950's. Subsequent additions were by Birt's daughter-in-law Phyllis.
Birth Certificate for Caroline Williams, 5 July 1880, 3 November 1916
Birth Certificate for Caroline Williams, born 5 July 1880, daughter of Randall Williams and Mary Ann Williams (formerly Hough). Extracted from the Register Book of Births in the East district of Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Birth Certificate for Caroline Williams, 22 November 1918, 18 December 1918
Scanned copy of the birth certificate for Caroline Williams, born 22 November 1918, daughter of Richard Monte and Caroline Monte (formerly Williams).
Black Duck, The Vagabond, The Sawmill, Only the Valiant, His Naughty Thought, Dollars and Sense, Bears and Bad Men, and Leave ‘Em Laughing Film, 1910 - 1920
Bolsover Colliery Cricket Club Programme, 14 February 1900
Grand Concert and Exhibition of Animated Photographs. 4pp. 2 Copies.
Born in the Saddle Film, c1932 - 1965
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Cyldon. Universal Pictures. 100 Feet. Black and white, silent. Western starring Ted Wells. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.
Boxing Kangaroo Film, May - June 1895
Nitrate film by Robert Paul and Birt Acres, filmed on a small wooden stage, showing a brief scene of a boxing bout between a boy and a kangaroo and refereed by possibly the animal trainer or showman, who appears to the left of the pugilists.
Boxing Match Film, c1895 - 1896
Nitrate film by Birt Acres, showing an outdoor boxing match and ringside onlookers. Possibly Acres’ Boxing Match film in August 1896 or Boxing Match/Boxing Contest filmed in 1895.