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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 726 Collections and/or Records:

Various Posters, c1990 - 2000

 File
Reference code: 178Z64.27
Scope and Contents

Posters advertising film festivals and copies of Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Bros posters.

Dates: c1990 - 2000
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Various Items of Ephemera

Venice in Dublin Poster, 4 July 1892

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.11
Scope and Contents Round Room Rotunda, Dublin Poole's Pictorial Tours, Darkest Africa, Meeting of H.M. Stanley and Emin Pasha, The Falls of Niagara, London day by day, Ireland, Sydney, The British fleet past and present, Poole's consolidated variety confederation, Miss Jessie Arnelli, musical act, Herr Blitz, Miss May Finch, Mr Felix Somers, Messrs Lisburn and O'Marr, Mr Willie Boatman, Poole's vocal quartette party, Mr Fred Mayer. Black type on orange background, printed on front and reverse. Printed by...
Dates: 4 July 1892
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

Victoria Hall Poster, Monday 11 November c1907

 Item
Reference code: 178R53.61
Scope and Contents

York. Parlato's Electric Animated Pictures, Dumb Sagacity, Needs Must When the Devil Drives, The Whitby Regatta. Blue type on red background. Printed by Dysons, Theatrical Printers, Peterborough.

Dates: Monday 11 November c1907
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

Victoria Hall, Sheerness Programme, 20 June 1904

 Item — Box Fred Holmes Box 2: Series 178K38; Series 178T31; Series 178Z31
Reference code: 178K38.49
Scope and Contents

Jasper Redfern's World-renowned Animated Pictures. Printed by Neale-Huggett and Pye, Southend.

Dates: 20 June 1904
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Programmes

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Programmes

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Posters

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Programmes

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Fred Holmes Collection / Programmes

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

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

 Item — Box Birt Acres Box 6: Series 178B29; Series 178E12; Series 178F30; Series 178G39; Series 178H23; Series 178P8
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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Birt Acres Collection / Audio Material

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Programmes

When Comedy was King, Keystone, Clash by Night, Tit for Tat, Cops, and Midnight Mischief Film, c1932 - 1965

 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: c1932 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Monte-Williams Collection / Research Material and Monographs

Winchester 73, Love Loot and Crash, Gunga Din and From Hand to Mouth Film, c1942 - 1965

 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: c1942 - 1965
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Programmes

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Noel Drewe Collection / Films

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