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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:

Early silent films Film, 1930

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 31: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.295
Scope and Contents

8mm. Black and White, Silent. Commercial films. Supplied by C.W. Cramp.

Dates: 1930

Easy Street, Trailing Double Trouble, and Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle Film, 1910 - 1919

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 30: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.282
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Lone Star Corporation. 300 Feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance in Charlie Saves the Day extract from 'Easy Street'. Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan, John ‘Dusty’ King and Max ‘Alibi’ Terhune as The Range Busters in 'Trailing Double Trouble'. Lex Barker in 'Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle'. Also features; a cartoon, Angelo Carpenter, Extasy Shu Shu in the Nude, Linda...
Dates: 1910 - 1919

Ecclesall Primrose League Annual Dance Programme, 31 March c1900 - 1920

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.60
Scope and Contents

Featuring Mr H. Jasper Redfern's Animated Photographs, showing the latest War Pictures. 4pp.

Dates: 31 March c1900 - 1920

Empire, Southend-on-Sea Handbill, c1905

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178T31.3
Scope and Contents

Salmon-trick and musical cyclist riding on one wheel without a saddle, to be filmed. Printed by Neale-Huggett and Pye, Electrical Printers, Weston Road, Southend.

Dates: c1905

Empire, Southend-on-Sea Programme, 9 May 1905 - 14 May 1905

 File — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.50
Scope and Contents

Jasper Redferns World Renowned Animated Pictures - Various films. Testo Bros - comedy, musical and acrobatic act. Mr and Mrs Edward H. Lucas - society entertainers. J.E. Linstead - Yorkshire Baritone. Salmon - trick and musical cyclist. Printed by Willsons', New Walk Printing Works, Leicester. 5 copies.

Dates: 9 May 1905 - 14 May 1905

Empire Theatre Programme, 16 July 1906

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.98
Scope and Contents

Blue type on white background and embossed crown in gold on the front cover, inside commercial advertising and programme in the centre listing Venus, Australian Ladie's Quartette, Morris Cronin & Truoe, Coppelia and The Biograph, 8p.p.

Dates: 16 July 1906

Exeter Hall Programme, 30 January 1905

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.110
Scope and Contents

Blue type on light pink background with floral illustration on the front cover, inside programme listing Crystalphone solo, special address to the young by the Rev. W.H. Griffith Thomas, Hand-bell ringing and gymnastic display, Dumb bell exercises, Indian Club exercises, Vaulting horse, Flag race, Magic and Mystery by Charles Leslie, Animated Photographs by Messrs. Clarkson, 2p.p.

Dates: 30 January 1905

Family Group Film, c July 1895

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.4
Scope and Contents

Nitrate film by Birt Acres, showing partial fragments of of a family group, possibly members of the Acres family.

Dates: c July 1895

Famous Players’ Review Booklet, 1 - 31 March 1914

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178Z31.12
Scope and Contents

Includes synopsis of films, some articles, and black and white photographs of actors and play scenes.

Dates: 1 - 31 March 1914

Felixstowe Spa Pavillion Programme, 25 August 1905

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.118
Scope and Contents

Brown type, floral illustrations and black and white photograph of the outside of the building on the front cover, inside commercial advertising and programme listing programme of concerts and Ruffell's Imperial Bioscope, 4p.p.

Dates: 25 August 1905

Film, 1895

 Series
Reference code: 178D15
Scope and Contents

Copies of the Opening of the Kiel Canal film.

Dates: 1895

Film, 1894 - 1896

 Series
Reference code: 178D12
Scope and Contents

Nitrate films made by Robert Paul and Birt Acres, showing brief scenes of topical events, popular entertainmet, family groups and fiction. These films were part of the repertoire travelled by showman George Williams around the British fairs.

Dates: 1894 - 1896

Films, c1950 - 1959

 Series
Reference code: 178D24
Scope and Contents

Please notice that 178D24.4 contains scenes of animal cruelty and human fatalities. Copies of films on DVD format showing performers at various circus around the world, travelling scenes, scenic views, performers behind the scenes, film sets. Black and white and colour, sound.

Dates: c1950 - 1959

Films, c1930 - 1990

 Series
Reference code: 178D5
Scope and Contents

Amateur and commercial films on multiple formats, focusing mainly on Circus but also including transport, fairs, fairground rides and other types of travelling entertainments.

Dates: c1930 - 1990

Formulae Notebook, c1880 - 1969

 Item
Reference code: 178P8.3
Scope and Contents

Notebook on making film stock entitled formulae, containing multiple loose notes.

Dates: c1880 - 1969

Fred Holmes Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0065
Scope and Contents

A collection of material including posters, programmes, handbills, newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to the shows of Jasper Redfern mainly in the Sheffield and surrounding areas. The collection was created by Fred Holmes who was a manager for Jasper Redfern of Sheffield, a pioneer of early film and exhibition. Jasper Redfern was the first man to show films in Sheffield. Also included in the collection is correspondence between Fred Holmes and Jasper Redfern.

Dates: c1895 - 1925

From Hand to Mouth, and The Big Idea Film, 1910 - 1929

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 31: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.297
Scope and Contents

8mm, Rolin Films. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: 1910 - 1929

From Soup to Nuts, The Indians are Coming, Pals in Buckskin, Winchester 73, Society Sensation, Whispering Lions, and Coney Island Film, 1930

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 32: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.318
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 350 feet. Universal Pictures. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Laurel and Hardy, Anita Garvin and Tiny Sandford in 'From Soup to Nuts'. Steve McNally and John McIntyre in 'Winchester 73'. Rudolph Valentino in 'Society Sensation'. James Parrott in 'Whispering Lions'. Buster Keaton, Fatty Artbuckle and Al St. John in 'Coney Island'. Also features young girl with knights and horses, and Lex Barker with a...
Dates: 1930

Funeral Cards, 1877 - 1885

 File
Reference code: 178Z64.1
Scope and Contents

Funeral cards for George Walter Poole, Henry James Mayer and Alexander Billington. Black and silver borders, some illustrations and text.

Dates: 1877 - 1885

George McIndoe Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0181
Scope and Contents

Photographs, slides, newspaper cuttings related to the Biddall family and photographs of Kirkaldy Fair created for a documentary on Scottish fairs.

Dates: c1880 - 1969; 18 May 1981