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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 726 Collections and/or Records:

Compilation of Various Films, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 26: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.257
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Dixons. 300 Feet. Lone Star Corporation. Silent, with both colour and black and white footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charles Chaplin in 'The Vagabond' and 'The Pawnshop'. Harold Lloyd in 'Harold Runs Amok'. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Splash extract from 'Sailor Beware', Dizzy Decorators and Ship Ahoy extract from 'Saps at Sea'. Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan, Rusty King and Max ‘Alibi’ Terhune in 'The Range Busters'. Also features...
Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Compilation of Various Films, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 27: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.261
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Robert Youngson Productions. Silent, with both colour and black and white footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charles Chaplin in pies and hosepipes extract from 'A Night at the Show'. Lupino Lane as the studio dummy in 'Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle'. Clyde Cook, Franklyn Pangborn, Geneva Mitchell and Billy Gilbert in 'What Price Taxi'. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 'Hopping Mad', Days of Thrills and Laughter, Three Little Bruins Make...
Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Compilation of Various Films, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 28: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.271
Scope and Contents 8mm, Castle Films. 400 feet. 3 Reels. Silent, with both colour and black and white footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Stan Laurel in 'Kill or Cure'. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson and Noah Young in 'The Mad Buttler'. Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Henry Bergman and Eric Campbell in 'The Pawnshop'. Mack Swain, Mabel Normand and Chester Conklin in 'Love, Speed and Thrills'. Buster Crabe in 'King of the Jungle'. Neal Heart in 'The Tell Tale Bullet'. Ben Turpin in...
Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Compilation of Various Films, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 30: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.284
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Cyldon. 300 feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Mickey Rooney as Mickey McGuire in 'Mickey’s Menagerie'. Fanfare trumpeters from 'The Feast of Ishitar'. Lupino Lane and Wallace Lane in 'Be My King', The Feast of Ishitar, Hold that Tiger, Fearless Antics, The Flame Smashers and Misbehaving Husbands. Also features Ken Maynard, and sea lions at Chessington Zoo.

Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Compilation of Various Films, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 30: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.288
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Gaumont-British Instructional. 400 feet. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Harold Lloyd in a dual role in 'The Grizzly Bear'. Walter Forde in 'Walter’s Paying Policy'. Buster Keaton in 'The Pale Face'. Buster Crabbe and lions in 'King of the Jungle' and Secrets of Life, Wake Up and Feed and You’re Darn Tootin. Also features animal scenes including; hippopotamus, pelicans, seals, giraffes, tigers, lions, deer, poodle...
Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Compilation of Various Films, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 30: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.289
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 350 feet. Silent with both colour and black and white footage. Extracts from comercial films. Includes; Al St.John in the 'Iron Mule'. Lupino Lane in 'Be My King'. James Stewart and Millard Mitchell in 'Winchester 73'. Billy Bevan in 'Honest Horace' and 'The Golf Nut'. John Wayne and Claire Tervor in 'Stagecoach'. Ben Turpin in 'The Stuntman'. Ken Maynard and Bobby Vernon in 'Hit or Miss', Honest Horace and Misbehaving Husbands. Also features animal...
Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Compilation of Various Films, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 31: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.307
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 320 feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Clyde Cook in 'The Misfit'. Victor McGlagden in 'Dick Turpin'. Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard and Noah Young in 'From Hand to Mouth'. Lex Barker as Tarzan in 'She Devil', Chimp the Cowboy and Girl in the Wood. Laurel and Hardy, Anita Garvin and scenes including deer and bear.

Dates: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Compilation of Various Films and Animal Scenes Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 21: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.203
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Cyldon. 300 Feet. Chadwick Pictures. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; 'Kid Speed' starring Larry Semon and Oliver Hardy. 'The Range Busters' starring Cary ‘Crash’ Corrigan, John King and Ray ‘Alibi’ Terhure. 'The Rink' starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell. Woodenheads extract from 'Busy Bodies' starring Laurel and Hardy. Pack up your Troubles, Swiss Miss, Jitterbugs (parponus), and Saps at Sea...
Dates: c1932 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Congress Hall Poster, 21 January 1884

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.12
Scope and Contents

Reading. Messrs Poole new mastodone Diorama of the World, America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Asia, Europe, War in Egypt, The Royal Review, Poole's Concert Party, Orchestra and Military Bands. Black and red type on blue, yellow, white and red backgrounds with colour illustration of Chinese acrobatics and fireworks in the centre. Printed by Stafford & Co., Printers and Engravers, Neherfield, near Nottingham.

Dates: 21 January 1884
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

Cooper visits Sidney Birt Acres and BBC Interview of Arthur Melbourne Cooper, 20 July 1958

 Item — Box Birt Acres Box 6: Series 178B29; Series 178E12; Series 178F30; Series 178G39; Series 178H23; Series 178P8
Reference code: 178E12.3
Scope and Contents

Audio 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.

Dates: 20 July 1958
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Audio Material

Corn Exchange Poster, Thursday 3 October c1895

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.60
Scope and Contents

Wantage. Royal English Opera and Burlesque Company, Faust and Marguerite, The Waterman, Grand Fashionable Night Patronaged by Col. Loyd Lindsay, Maritana, The Field of the Cloth of Gold, Fra Diavolo, The Swiss Cottage. Black type on pink silk.

Dates: Thursday 3 October c1895
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

Correspondence, 1897 - 2010

 Series
Reference code: 178F30
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1897 - 2010
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection

Correspondence, 1900 - 1914

 Series — Box Fred Holmes Box 1: Series 178C109; Series 178F21; Series 178G20; Series 178H14; Series 178I18
Reference code: 178F21
Scope and Contents

Collection of letters, envelopes, stamps, telegrams and tickets.

Dates: 1900 - 1914
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection

Correspondence between Mr and Mrs Alan Birt Acres and Dr. Hauke Lange-Fuchs, 1994 - 2002

 File — Box Birt Acres Box 1: Series 178B29; Series 178F30
Reference code: 178F30.2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Mr and Mrs A. B. Acres and Dr. Hauke Lange-Fuchs regarding the work of Birt Acres, part of Alan’s research for Frontiersman to Film-maker book. Ring binder containing letters and transparencies.

Dates: 1994 - 2002
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Correspondence

Correspondence from The Warwick Trading Company Ltd., 17 June 1912

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 1: Series 178C109; Series 178F21; Series 178G20; Series 178H14; Series 178I18
Reference code: 178F21.7
Scope and Contents

Details of bioscope/Cinephone films on loan. Sheffield.

Dates: 17 June 1912
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Correspondence

Croydon Hippodrome Programme, 29 August 1910

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.112
Scope and Contents

Three fold programme with blue and white type and illustration of the interior of the theatre and commercial advertising on the outside, inside commerical advertising and programme listing American Bioscope, George Adam, Lottol Lilo & Otto, Larola, Gwennie Llewellyn, Helen Trix, Bellew & Stock's Co., Rose Cabani, Frank Lynne, Fred Lindsay and Miss Ellaline Terriss & Co.

Dates: 29 August 1910
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Programmes

Crystal Palace Programme, 1 January 1881

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.31
Scope and Contents Punch and Judy, Rudolf's black and white harmonic concert company, Christmas Pantomime, Aladdin, invented and produced under the direction of Mr Oscar Barrett and Mr W.R. Osman, The Children's dinner, The skating rink, The picture gallery, Bicycle practice tickets, Artic exploration, The Yarkund and Tibet Court, The Technological Museum, The Alhambra Court, The Pompeian House, The Chinese Court, The Crystal Palace Reading Room, Crystal Palace Company's Library, Pompeii, The New Book Court...
Dates: 1 January 1881
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Programmes

Crystal Palace Programme, 18 March 1893

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.91
Scope and Contents

Black illustrations of musical instruments and a woman holding a small harp and black type on orange background on the front cover, inside details of concerts including lyrics and sheet music with informatioin about the music and listing of performers including, Mr Fleming Norton, Mr Robert Ganthony, Mr R.A. Roberts and The Siege of Paris Panorama, 20p.p.

Dates: 18 March 1893
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Programmes

Cutlers’ Hall Handbill, c1900 - 1920

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178Z31.7
Scope and Contents

Sheffield rules for animated picture and cinematograph exhibitions.

Dates: c1900 - 1920
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Various Items

Cyril Critchlow Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0089
Scope and Contents The Cyril Critchlow collection contains programmes, posters, handbills, books and magic journals, many of which relate to shows in Blackpool where Cyril resided and includes material on entertainment venues such as Blackpool’s North Pier, Central Pier, South Pier, Tower Circus and a small collection of programmes from other national venues. Additionally, it contains circus photographs and postcards mainly of the Ohmy Circus and Sanger Circus including individual circus troupes and performers...
Dates: c1837 - 2008
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

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