The 20 best of Birt Acres
Here I have listed the twenty best contributions to film from Birt Acres.
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- DirectorBirt AcresA policeman catches a pickpocket, who slips from his jacket but is caught by a sailor.Possibly the first British narrative film ever.
- DirectorBirt AcresStarsTom Merry
- DirectorBirt AcresStarsTom MerryThe stage cartoonist sketches Otto von Bismark.A second example of Tom Merry's work
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- DirectorBirt AcresA short film drama made for Robert Paul's Kinetoscopes, featuring a boy and two drunken men fighting in a bar room.
- StarsKaiser Wilhelm IIAcres and Henry Short filmed this short of the Kaiser's son putting a stone on his grave.
- DirectorBirt AcresAlthough the content of this film is primitive in the extreme - a shot of the traditional Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race, filmed on March 30 1895 - this film is of immense historical importance as being the first ever British film
- DirectorBirt AcresAcres was now working for Robert W. Paul, who was formerly an optician who took an interest in film.
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- DirectorBirt AcresStarsEmpress Augusta VictoriaKaiser Wilhelm II
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- DirectorBirt AcresA stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the race is over, police officers run onto the infield. The crowd moves around.Acres set the camera up so that the viewer seems to be in the crowd.
- DirectorBirt AcresAcres is working separate of Edison Laboratories, searching for subjects.
- DirectorBirt AcresBirt Acres directs for Northern Photographic Works.
- StarsKaiser Wilhelm II
- DirectorBirt AcresRobert W. PaulThe sea is quite rough, and at Dover a series of heavy waves pounds against a pier and along the adjacent shoreline. The scene then shifts to a different view of flowing water, and shows a heavy current from a point along a riverbank.
- StarsHenry Short