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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 723 Collections and/or Records:

Bathing Beauties, Putting Pants on Phillip, and A Dog’s Life Film, 1910 - 1919

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 30: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.290
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1910 - 1919

Bathing Beauties, Shooting Wild, Putting Pants on Phillip, Palace of Turkish Delights, and Monty’s Hair Raising Train Rescue Film, 1910 - 1919

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 25: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.247
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1910 - 1919

Bathing Beauties, The Jazz Band Leader, and Tomahawk Territory Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 31: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.303
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1907 - 2001

Bear Cubs Go Rural Film, 1957

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 25: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.241
Scope and Contents

16mm, Cyldon. 300 Feet. Universal Pictures Company. Black and White, with Sound. Commercial Film.

Dates: 1957

Below Zero, Clash by Night, Cops, and The Bank Film, 1930 - 1939

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 26: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.248
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1930 - 1939

Ben Jackson Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0106
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1903 - 1923

Bernard Fielding Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0084
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1990 - 1999

Bibliography, c1994 - 2000

 Item
Reference code: 178J1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1994 - 2000

Biddall Family Photographs, c1880 - 1949

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178C134.1-14
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1880 - 1949

Bill Barnes Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0172
Scope and Contents

Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.

Dates: 1881 - 2017

Bioscope Monograph, c1890 - 1910

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 1: Series 178B19; Series 178I13
Reference code: 178B19.14
Scope and Contents

Early bioscope or picture shows description on paper with leather-style backing, typescript, 1p.

Dates: c1890 - 1910

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

Birt Acres Film Pioneer 1854 - 1918 Scrapbook, c1900 - 1999

 Item
Reference code: 178G39.3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1900 - 1999

Birth Certificate for Caroline Williams, 5 July 1880, 3 November 1916

 Item
Reference code: 178Q10.1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 5 July 1880; Usage: 3 November 1916

Birth Certificate for Caroline Williams, 22 November 1918, 18 December 1918

 Item
Reference code: 178Q10.3
Scope and Contents

Scanned copy of the birth certificate for Caroline Williams, born 22 November 1918, daughter of Richard Monte and Caroline Monte (formerly Williams).

Dates: 22 November 1918; Usage: 18 December 1918

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

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 26: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.254
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Emitape. Silent, in Colour. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell in 'The Vagabond'. Larry Semon, Oliver hardy and Kayla Pasha in 'The Sawmill'. Gregory Peck in 'Only the Valiant'. Mack Swain in 'His Naughty Thought'. Stan Laurel and James Finlayson in 'Bears and Bad Men'. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Edgar Kennedy in 'The Highway'. Extract from 'Leave Em Laughing'. Also features animal scenes...
Dates: 1910 - 1920

Bolsover Colliery Cricket Club Programme, 14 February 1900

 File — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.17
Scope and Contents

Grand Concert and Exhibition of Animated Photographs. 4pp. 2 Copies.

Dates: 14 February 1900

Born in the Saddle Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 20: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.189
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Cyldon. Universal Pictures. 100 Feet. Black and white, silent. Western starring Ted Wells. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Boxing Kangaroo Film, May - June 1895

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.2
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: May - June 1895

Boxing Match Film, c1895 - 1896

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.5
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1895 - 1896