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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:

Victoria School, Wath-on-Dearne Programme, 26 April 1900

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.26
Scope and Contents

Grand Entertainment, Jasper Redfern's Animated Photographs and other acts. 4pp.

Dates: 26 April 1900

Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian Circus Posters, c1800 - 1930

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178R47.1-51
Scope and Contents

Early circus and menagerie posters including Polito's menagerie, Astley's Amphitheatre and Pablo Fanque's, Sanger's, Powell's, Ducrow's, Cooke's and Hengler's circuses among others.

Dates: c1800 - 1930

Village Hall, Cobham Programme, 29 January 1900

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.9
Scope and Contents

Demonstration of Photography in Natural Colours by Mr Jasper Redfern, and other acts. 4pp.

Dates: 29 January 1900

Village Hall, Cobham Programme, 30 January 1900

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.10
Scope and Contents

Demonstration of Photography in Natural Colours by Mr Jasper Redfern, and other acts. 4pp.

Dates: 30 January 1900

Vint's Palace Electric Poster, Monday 26 December c1887

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.37
Scope and Contents

Late Town Hall Rugby. Vint's Pictures, The Air Tight Safe, Mark of the Criminal, 3 Favourites, Football at Home, Kelly Visits the Country, David and Goliath, Rose Leaves, Marco the clever boy conjuror, Flirty Afflictions, Calino Cools the Crowd, Lost a Sleeve, Force of Example, Ross Combination, Life for a Life, The Broken Doll, Vint's photo songs. Red type on off white background and solid red border. Printed by Willsons' New Walk Colour Printing Works, Leicester.

Dates: Monday 26 December c1887

Visit to Mrs Sidney Acres and Interview with Audrey Wadowski About Birt Acres, 21 February 1985

 Item
Reference code: 178E12.4
Scope and Contents

Audio cassette tape number T183. Visit to Mrs Sidney Acres, part 2 also with Audrey Wadowski about Birt Acres. Southend. Part of eight cassette recordings of Tjitte de Vries of Birt Acres and Melbourne-Cooper relations. Copy from Tjitte de Vries, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper Archive.

Dates: 21 February 1985

W. Morton Pictorial, Musical and Descriptive Entertainment Programme, c1880 - 1889

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.25
Scope and Contents

Southampton, The Bay of Biscay, The rock of Gibraltar, The great harbour of Malta, Mr H. Woodman musical act, Alexandria from the sea, Cairo, Crossing the desert, Miss Edith Elmer impersonating act, Suez, The Sansitore Brothers musical act, A ship of fire, Madras, Calcutta, Canton. Black type on blue background with linear border on the front cover, inside and on back cover programme, 2p.p

Dates: c1880 - 1889

When Comedy was King, Keystone, Clash by Night, Tit for Tat, Cops, and Midnight Mischief Film, c1920 - 1929

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 23: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.220
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Hal Roach Studios. 350 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films, and TV commercials. Includes Horse racing. Nude from striphouse. Charley Chase in the opening from 'When Comedy was King'. Charles Chaplin in 'Keystone'. Barbara Standwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Douglas in 'Clash by Night'. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Chalie Hall in 'Tit for Tat'. Buster Keaton in 'The Great Stone Face from Cops' . Glamour finale...
Dates: c1920 - 1929

Whispering Lions Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 20: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.195
Scope and Contents

8mm, Hal Roach Studios. Black and white, silent. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Whispering Lions Film, 1925

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 29: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.275
Scope and Contents

8mm, Hal Roach Studios. 175 Feet. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film starring James Parrot and Jolyn Ralston.

Dates: 1925

White's Cinema Poster, 25 December 1911

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.38
Scope and Contents

St. Thomas' Green, Haverfordwest. Special Xmas attractions, Billy Ross & Co., change of pictures three times weekly. Black type on brown background and black border. Printed by T.J. Morris Pembrokshire Herald Offices, Bridge Street, Haverfordwest.

Dates: 25 December 1911

William Thurston's New Electric Palace Poster, c1880 - 1890

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.18
Scope and Contents

Animated photography, Illustrated Songs and Scenas. Red and blue type on off white background and red, blue and white geometric border, in the centre red, blue and white illustration of people watching a projection of a plane flying in a theatre. Printed by Wilsons Printers.

Dates: c1880 - 1890

Williams Family Biographical Material, 1816 - 1938

 File
Reference code: 178B36.1
Scope and Contents

Research material relating to the Williams family including birth, marriage and death certificates and census records.

Dates: 1816 - 1938

Winchester 73, Love Loot and Crash, Gunga Din, and From Hand to Mouth Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 31: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.299
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 178 feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Stephen McNally, Shelley Winters and Dan Dure in 'Winchester 73'. Cary Grant in 'Gunga Din'. Harold Lloyd in 'From Hand to Mouth'. Also features Caroline Dell and Hedy Keiser adult scenes.

Dates: c1907 - 2001

Winter Gardens & Pier Programme, 26 October 1911

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.125
Scope and Contents

Yellow and black decorative illustration with black and white photographs of sites in Bournemouth on the front cover, inside programme concert programme and commercial advertising including an advert for Wet's Pictures Palace at Shartesbury Hall, 4p.p.

Dates: 26 October 1911

With Love and Hisses Film, 1927

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 25: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.242
Scope and Contents

8mm, Dixons. 380 Feet. Hal Roach Studios. Black and White, Silent. Commercial film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

Dates: 1927

With Love and Hisses, The Redskins Attack, Stage Coach, Feast of Ishitar, Destry, and Dog Heaven Film, c1907 - 2001

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 27: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.263
Scope and Contents Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 300 Feet. Silent, with both Colour and Black and White footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Laurel and Hardy in Travelling Companions scene from 'With Love and Hisses'. James Ellison in 'The Redskins Attack'. Tom Mix and Tony in 'Destry'. Pete and Our Gang in 'Dog Heaven'. Also features skeleton dance, King of the Jungle, animal scenes from Kruger Park South Africa, elephants from Chessington Park, Elmo Lincoln with elephant (in...
Dates: c1907 - 2001

Wonderland Poster, 29 March 1897

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.31
Scope and Contents

Last week of the Biograph, Hanley, Logan and Hanley, Little Annie Laughine, Meyer Cohen, The McDounough Trio, Harry C. Stanley and Adele Jackson, Gilbert Girard, Waiting for Hubby, Kechum & Stuffem's Sausage Factory, Pussy's Bath, Why Papa Can't Sleep, Drunken Acrobat, 13th Infantry U.S. Army, Caught in the Act, Prodigal's Return, Hard Wash, Empire Express. Black type and black illustration of two men and a woman dancing in the centre on brown background.

Dates: 29 March 1897

World's 1st Movies Film, c1932 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 18: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.171
Scope and Contents

8mm. 200 feet. Black and white, silent. Combination of early shorts from the 'Collectors Club' series.

Dates: c1932 - 1965

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour Film, c July 1896

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.7
Scope and Contents

Nitrate film by Birt Acres, showing brief fragments of a film that survives in the Henville Collection in the National Film and Television Archive.

Dates: c July 1896