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

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

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

Specifications for Normalair humidifiers.

Notebook on film making recipes.

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.

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.

Notebooks on film making specifications and chemical tests.

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

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

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.

Black type and black and white photograph of a movie scene, showing The Earl of Rochester overcoming Amabel in a room on the front cover, inside description of scenes and black and white photographs, contains commercial advertisements, 8p.p.

8mm, Lone Star Corporation. 200 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film, starring Charles Chaplin. Opening scene includes Albert Dustin as a cab driver. The reminder of the film features Chaplin doing a solo comedy routine.

Copy of the Opening of Kiel Canal film, Tom Merry lightening cartoonist and other films made by Birt Acres, 35mm. Copy produced by BFI, silent, black and white.

Copy of the Opening of Kiel Canal film made by Birt Acres, 35mm. Copy produced by BFI, silent, black and white.

Strand. Black type on green background on front cover announcing Shamus O'Brien in three tableaux founded on the celebrated poem by Jos. Sheridan Le Fanu, inside commercial advertising and programme listing C. Villiers Standord's new romantic comic opera Shamus O'brien, also contains programme for Olympia listing Chevalier Blondin and Animated pictures by Mr Paul's Theatrograph, 2p.p.

This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.

8mm, Hal Roach Studios. 200 feet. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Oxford Street and Holborn.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Includes; Paris Revue comedy sketch. Performing pig and cattle in Portugal. African elephants and lions at Krugel Park, South Africa. Ken Maynard. Mountain animals. Tom Mix Destry. High and Dizzy Leon Errol. Dorothy Granger and Irma Trude The Chiken. Penguins from Chessington Zoo. John Wayne in Stagecoach. George Bancroft and Thomas Michael in Paris Revue finale.