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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:

New Bar Room Film, 17 January 1895

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.13
Scope and Contents

Nitrate film by Edison [EMP 110]. Prod., f./ph: W. K. L. Dickson, William Heise. Film showing comedy a bar brawl.

Dates: 17 January 1895
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / George Williams Collection / Film

New Gallery Kinema Programme, 14 January 1914

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.123
Scope and Contents Regent Street Quadrant. Blue type and coat of arms sheild on off white background on front cover, inside commercial advertising and programme for the first anniversary of the venue listing new gallery march, the building and opening of the new gallery kinema, Scene from Hamlet, Willy and the Faithful Servant, scene from The three Musketeers, scenes in Calcutta, The Book of Fortune, Overture 1812, Modern Steel Industry, the scape scene from Les Miserables, Max as a Conjurer and final scen of...
Dates: 14 January 1914
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Programmes

New Palace Theatre, Hull Poster, 18 August 1902

 Item — Sleeve Fred Holmes Sleeve 3: Series 178R34
Reference code: 178R34.3
Scope and Contents

Millie Hylton. Maisamos - Musical Grotesques. Alice Cooke - Transformation Dancer. Sisters Morgan - Duettists and Dancers. Ross and Grayson - Comedians. Redfern's Pictures - The Coronation of King Edward VII. Sybil St. Elmo - Vocalist. O'Connor and Brady - Knockabout Comedians. Little Gitana - Child Vocalist. Glenroy Troupe. Edwin Boyde - Comedian. Red and green.

Dates: 18 August 1902
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Posters

New Palace Theatre, Hull Programme, 18 August 1902

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.44
Scope and Contents

Alice Cooke - Transformation Dancer. The Maisanos -Continental Musical Grotesques. Sybil St. Elmo - Ballad Vocalist. Ross and Grayson - Comedy Act. Edwin Boyde - Comedian. Redfern's Pictures. Millie Hylton. O'Connor and Brady - Knockabout Comedians. Little Gitana - Child Vocalist. Sisters Morgan - Duettists and Dancers. Glenroy Troupe - Male and Female Characteristic Dancers and Speciality Performers. 3-fold programme.

Dates: 18 August 1902
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Programmes

New York World’s Fair, Pearl White Perils of Pauline, Our Gang, Prairie Pirates, and One AM Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 23: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.218
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 350 Feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; scenes starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters. Text Williams in 'Prairie Pirates'. Charles Chaplin and Albert Austin in 'One AM'.

Dates: c1907 - 2001
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

Newspaper Clippings, c1900 - 1925

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

Collection of Clippings relating to Jasper Redfern's film shows. UK, mainly Sheffield and surrounding areas.

Dates: c1900 - 1925
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection

Newspaper Cutting of Kinematograph, c1919 - 1959

 Item
Reference code: 178G25.6
Scope and Contents

Cuttings from Kinematograph – Wonders of Moving Picture Land, 4p.p.

Dates: c1919 - 1959
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Cyril Critchlow Collection / Newspaper Cuttings and Scrapbooks

Newspaper Cuttings and Scapbook, 1880 - 1901

 Series
Reference code: 178G56
Scope and Contents

Newspaper cuttings and scrapbook related to Poole's Myriorama collated by William Barnes

Dates: 1880 - 1901
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection

Newspaper Cuttings and Scrapbook, c1900 - 1999

 Series
Reference code: 178G39
Scope and Contents

Newspaper articles written by Sidney Birt Acres or about him and a scrabook entitled Birt Acres Film Pioneer.

Dates: c1900 - 1999
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection

Newspaper Cuttings and Scrapbooks, c1832 - 1999

 Series
Reference code: 178G25
Scope and Contents

Various newspaper cuttings and scrapbooks about variety and circus performers including the Ohmy and Sanger families.

Dates: c1832 - 1999
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Cyril Critchlow Collection

Noel Drewe Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0058
Scope and Contents

A large collection of films entitled Circusama containing amateur and professional films on the themes of circus, performing animals and zoos, and edited clips from commercial Western and comedy films. The films are in a variety of formats including 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm and 16mm and contain related correspondence and notes. This collection also contains some sound reels mainly of fairground music.

Dates: c1930 - 1990
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Normalair Humidifiers Pamphlet, c1880 - 1969

 Item
Reference code: 178H23.2
Scope and Contents

Specifications for Normalair humidifiers.

Dates: c1880 - 1969
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Business Records

Norman Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0087
Scope and Contents This collection comprises letters, business contracts and agreements, advertising material, printed ephemera and photographs, relating to the life and career of Ralph Norman (also known as Hal Denver), a knife thrower who performed as part of The Sensational Denvers. There are also writings by Ralph Norman, concerning his father, Tom Norman (aka 'The Silver King'), as well as draft chapters for his autobiography, which he titled, 'Knife and Hatchet Man'. Accompanied by a set of throwing...
Dates: c1900 - 2002
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Notebook on Film Processes, c1880 - 1969

 Item
Reference code: 178P8.2
Scope and Contents

Notebook on film making recipes.

Dates: c1880 - 1969
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Notebooks

Notebook on Film Processes and Specifications, c1880 - 1969

 Item
Reference code: 178P8.4
Scope and Contents

Notebook with recipes for film stock and emulsion containing multiple loose pages including four on typed pages on Substratum Formulae and one entitled Birt Acres rapid negative.

Dates: c1880 - 1969
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Notebooks

Notebook on Film Processes and Specifications, June 1916

 Item
Reference code: 178P8.5
Scope and Contents

Notebook entitled ‘Notes on Lots of Materials, films, plates, bromide paper, post cards, etc. Also contains hand written loose pages on photographic process (rapid ammonia), standard positive emulsion, substratus as recommended by The American Celluloid Co., for their T-12 celluloid base and others.

Dates: June 1916
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Notebooks

Notebooks, c1880 - 1969

 Series
Reference code: 178P8
Scope and Contents

Notebooks on film making specifications and chemical tests.

Dates: c1880 - 1969
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection

Notebooks on Film Processes and Specifications, c1880 - 1969

 File
Reference code: 178P8.1
Scope and Contents

Notebook on film making recipes and film perforations data, containing four loose notes.

Dates: c1880 - 1969
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Notebooks

Nottingham Central Mission Programme, 28 October 1903

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.48
Scope and Contents

Halifax Place. Grand Cinematograph Lecture by the Rev. J. Gregory Mantle. Printed by John Ellis, Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham.

Dates: 28 October 1903
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Programmes

O'Connor-Toulmin Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0025
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs, including early family photographs of the O'Connor family, contemporary research, journal articles and books written by Vanessa Toulmin. Also included in the collection are manuscripts and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: c1900 - 2001
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

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