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.

Poem entitled parody written on Poole's New Popular Trips Abroad letter headed paper with illustration of people from around the world behing two banners and the top of the globe behind them. Manuscript.

Patent registration forms and several typed and hand written versions of a new type of gear wheel invention.

Nitrate film by Robert Paul and Birt Acres, showing two animal acts filmed on the same wooden stage as the Boxing Kangaroo. The first sequence shows a skipping dog jumping through a hoop held by an animal trainer or showman. The second sequence shows possibly one of the earliest tributes to the Skirt Dance on film, with a dog or monkey performing the dance with the aid of its trainer.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm. 350 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Ken Maynard in 'Phantom Ride' western. Billy Dooley in 'Full Speed Ahead'. Lex Barker in 'Tarzan’s Savage Fury'. Tiny Sandford in 'Soup to Nuts'. Rudolph Valentino in 'Society Sensation'. Billy Bevan in 'Honest Horace'. Also features glamour girls, jousting, animals, and nudity.

Photographs by Birt Acres including samples of his wave and cloud sequence experimental work.

Colour photographs of fairgrounds and steam engine rallies taken by Bernard Fielding.

Black and white and colour photographs and postcards related to the Biddall and McIndoe fairground showman families and photographs of fairgrounds. Also colour slides of photographs of Kirkaldi Fair taken for a documentary on Scottish fairgrounds.

Black and white photographs and negatives of fairground rides, living wagons, transport, fairground organs, carvings and other artwork from the Orton and Spooner company. Also contains some photographs of employees and showmen.

Black and white and colour photographs and postcards depicting the Monte-Williams family.

11 sepia stills of 'Redemption' film by Cinema Éclair. 4 glass plates showing strong man, some acrobats and other scenes with people. 12 black and white portrait photographs of actresses and actors, some with dedications. 6 small collectible cards from Moffat's Sweetmeats part of a series of photos of cinema artistes. 3 photographs of Southend. 6 postcards for 'The Two Falcons' acrobatic act. 3 strips of negatives.