Motion pictures
Found in 716 Collections and/or Records:
Leading Lizzie Astray, Shooting Wild, The Adventurer, Three Bruins Go Camping, and Painting the Town Film, 1914 - 1919
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Keystone Film Company. 300 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Fatty Artbuckle in 'Leading Lizzie Astray'. Charles Chaplin in 'The Adventurer'. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 'Painting the Town'. Also features nude scenes from striphouse.
Lens in Brass Case, c1870 - 1918
Birt Acres’ lens in brass casing, cylindrical brass case from which a cylindrical lens is extracted, all house within a wooden tube with a cork stopper.
Lenses and Prisms, c1870 - 1918
Bit Acres’ experimental clear and colour lenses and prisms.
Letter and Pass from Jasper Redfern, 5 June 1907
Letter with Special Pass.
Letter from Fred Holmes, 1900
Letter from Fred Holmes.
Letter from Howards and Sons to Ltd Sidney Birt Acres, 7 July 1937
Letter from Howards and Sons to Ltd Sidney Birt Acres in response to his enquiry about information on different solvents. Howards and Sons Ltd Chemical Manufacturers headed letter paper with pencil notes on reverse, 1p.
Letter of Recommendation for Kevin Acres from Gordon Pagan of Linear Graphics Limited, c1900 - 1999
Letter of recommendation for Kevin Acres from Gordon Pagan of Linear Graphics Limited.
Letters, 1900 - 1914
Various letters.
Letters from Jasper Redfern to Fred Holmes, 1903 - 1910
Letters, envelopes, stamps and tickets. Includes one photocopy.
Letters to Alan Acres, 2000 - 2010
Letters to Alan Acres.
Letters to Fred Holmes from various people, 1903 - 1910
Letters, envelopes, stamps and tickets.
Letters to Mrs Sidney Birt Acres from the British Film Institute, 1981 - 1982
Letters to Mrs S. Birt Acres from the British Film Institute.
Lion, The Finishing Touch, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Edgar Kennedy in The Builders scene from 'The Finishing Touch'. John Wayne in 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' western. Also features nude scenes. As well as animal scenes including seals, sea lions and penguins.
Llandudno Pier Company Limited Programme, 13 August 1907
Red and white photograph of the beack and red type on white background on the front cover listing members of the orchestra, inside concert programme, on back cover The Royal American Bioscope at the Pier Varieties Theatre, 2p.p.
London Hippodrome Programme, 29 July 1907
Variety programme, listing various acts including Chung Ling Soo, with programme in centre including Macate Sisters, Leonard Gautier's performing ponies, The Four Magnanis, Alfred Loyal, The Chrono Megaphone, Clown Pinta, The Black Hussars, Leipsig, Johnny Watson, The Globe of Life, Paul Conchas and the American Bioscope. Also contains commercial advertising. Light blue covers with white type, 10p.p.
London Hippodrome Programme, 30 November 1914
Colour illustration of woman dresses in flags of the allied countries during world war one on white background. Inside commercial advertising and programme including Gerano, bioscope, Kartelli, 'Business as Usual' a war related play and patriotic songs, also projection of films from the front, 12p.p.
Louise Tussaud's New Exhibition Programme, c1891-1892
St. Jame's Great Hall, Oxford Street, Manchester. Black type and colour centre containing the names of Tussaud's staff and officials on the front cover, inside programme listing Mr Percival Craig, Sydney Gandy and Miss Inglefield, Professor Bracken, Living Pictures or Tableaux Vivant and The Grand Panorama, on back cover Chamber of Horrors, 2p.p.
Man Eater at Large Film, 1926
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Mack Sennett. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film, starring Billy Beavan and Andy Clyde.
Manuscripts and Research Material, c1995 - 2005
Research material related to the life of Birt Acres conducted by his grandson Alan Acres, mainly for writing Fonstiersman to Film-Maker book.
Manuscripts for Frontiersman to Film-Maker Book, c1995 - 2005
Original manuscript for 'Frontiersman to film-maker' the biography of film pioneer Birt Acres 1854-1918 book by Alan Acres, in red ring binder. Typescript.