Born on this day – Birt Acres:

Birt Acres

Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

July 23, 1854 – December 27, 1918

Credits:

A Corner of Barnet Fair (1896); A Prize Fight by Jem Mace and Burke (1896); A Surrey Garden (1896); A Visit to the Zoo (1896); An Unfriendly Call (1897); Approach of a Racing Train at Gatwick (1897); Arrival After the Wedding (1896); Arrival of Lord Mayor at Law Courts (1898); Band Marching Down Street (1897); Boxing Match (1899); Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest (1896); Brighton Beach (1896); Briton v. Boer (1900); Broadway, New York (1895); Capstone Parade, Ilfracombe (1896); Charge of the 12th Lancers (1899); Charge of the Uhlans (1895); Children Playing (1896); Church Parade of Troops (1897); Cleaving the Turk’s Head (1896); Clouds (1897); Clovelly Cottage, Barnet (1895); Coaching in North Devon (1898); Cockade Fight by 15th Hussars (1899); Cricketer Jumping Over Garden Gate (1895); Crows on Saffron Hill (1894); Cycling in Hyde Park (1896); Dancing Girls (1896); Departure of the Bride from Marlborough House (1896); Der Kaiser auf der Kommandobrücke der Hohenzollern (1895); Elevated Railway in the Streets of New York (1895); Fast Mail, Northern Pacific Railroad (1897); Finsbury Park Station (1896); Football Match (1899); Football Match, Crystal Palace (1898); Gatwick: Paddock (1897); German Emperor at Hamburg (1895); Going Away (1896); Golfing Extraordinary, Five Gentlemen (1896); Great Northern Railroad (1896); Guns of the Naval Brigade Entrained for Royal Tournament (1900); H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (1896); Haycart Crossing Hadley Green, Middlesex (1894); Henley Regatta (1897); Highgate Tunnel: Goods Train (1895); Japanese Battleship Asahi Ashore Off Southsea Beach (1900); Kaiser Wilhelm Reviewing His Troops (1895); Kaiser-Parade auf dem Tempelhofer Felde (1895); Krieger-Parade (1895); Lancers on Horseback (1896); Land at Low Tide (1896); Landing at Low Tide (1896); Launching of H.M.S. Albion (1898); Laying the First Stone on Kaiser Wilhelm’s Memorial (1895); Maypole Dance (1896); Military Medical Train Arriving at Netley Hospital (1900); Mounted Mule Battery (1896); Mounted Quadrille (1896); Naval Brigade Marching Through Windsor (1900); Niagara Falls in Winter: The Waterfall (1895); Niagara Falls: Close to the Waterfall (1895); Niagara Falls: The Great Whirlpool (1895); Opening of the Cardiff Exhibition by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (1896); Opening of the Kiel Canal (1895); Parade der Veteranen des deutsch-franz Krieges (1895); Persimmons Winning the Derby (1896); Pierrot and Pierrette (1897); Practising for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1897); Prince and Princess of Wales Arriving in State at the Cardiff Exposition (1896); Prince of Wales’ Famous Horse (1896); Promenade Scene (1897); Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Procession (1897); Rifle Brigade at the Double (1898); Rough Sea at Dover (1895); S.S. New York Leaving Southampton (1899); Schlusssteinlegung des Kaiser Wilhelm Kanals (1895); Scrambling Urchins (1896); Sheffield United v. Corinthians (1898); Shoeblack at Work in a London Street (1895); Smith and Machinery at Work (1895); South Western Railway at Dover (1896); Steam Yacht at the Canal Entrance (1895); Steamer ‘New York’ in Dock (1895); Steamer on Long Island Sound (1895); Street Scene (1896); Street Scene in Winter in Montreal, Canada (1895); Suvier Entering the Baltic Canal, Hamburg (1895); Sword v. Bayonet (1896); Sword v. Sword (1896); The Arrest of a Bookmaker (1895); The Arrest of a Pickpocket (1895); The Boxing Kangaroo (1896); The Carpenter Shop (1896); The Derby (1896); The First Film (2015); The Garden Party on the Lawn (1896); The Henley Regatta (1896); The Lord Mayor’s Show (1896); The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race (1896); The Royal Wedding (1896); Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist (1895); Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist II (1895); Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist III (1896); Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist IV (1896); Tower Bridge Working (1896); Trip from Barnstaple to Ilfracombe (1896); Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy (1895); Venice: The Rialto Bridge (1895); Visit to the Northern Photographic Works (1897); Yarmouth Sands (1896); Yarmouth: Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour (1896).