The Beginnings of the Cinema in England 18941901
Volume One: 18941896
(revised and enlarged edition)
First published as The Beginnings of
the Cinema in England by
David and Charles in 1976
Revised and enlarged edition published in 1998 by
University of Exeter Press
Reed Hall, Streatham Drive
Exeter, Devon EX4 4QR, UK
www.exeterpress.co.uk
John Barnes 1976, 1998
First paperback edition published 2014
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is
available from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 85989 954 3
Typeset in 10/12 pt Times New Roman
by Exe Valley Dataset Ltd, Exeter
Printed in the UK by 4edge Limited
Illustrations
Frontispiece: William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson
R.W. Pauls Kinetoscope
Edison Kinetoscope
Advertisement for A. Lomaxs Phonograph and Kinetoscope Office
Pickaninnies (Edison, 1894)
Film cans for Kinetoscope loops
Kinetoscope Parlours
Dicksons booklet, History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and Kineto-Phonograph
The Horse Shoe Hotel, Tottenham Court Road, London and menu card
Frame illustrations from five Kinetoscope films
Edisons Kinetoscope Parlour in the Strand
11a Descriptive pamphlet issued by the Continental Commerce Co.
11b Descriptive pamphlet issued by the International Kinetoscope Co.
11c Descriptive pamphlet issued by Edisons Kinetoscope and Phonograph
Robert William Paul
Advertisement for Edison Kinetoscopes
The sample strip of Kinetoscope film sent by Paul to Edison
Letter from Paul to Edison
The first Kinetoscope film made in England
Birt Acres
Pauls rotary film perforator
Pauls film printer
Birt Acres filming the Derby of 1895
Pauls Cinematograph Camera No. 1
Souvenir card issued by Hales Tours, London
Pauls first film projector, the Theatrograph
Pauls Theatrograph No. 2, Mk 1
Pauls Theatrograph No. 2, Mk 1 adapted for touring
Pauls Theatrograph No. 2, Mk 1
Pauls Theatrograph No. 2, Mk 1
The intermittent mechanism of Pauls Theatrograph No. 2, Mk 1
Pauls intermittent film perforator
Pauls Theatrograph No. 2, Mk 2
Pauls Cinematograph Camera No. 2
Souvenir postcard of the Kiel Canal
Rough Sea at Dover (Birt Acres, 1895)
The Kiel Canal (Birt Acres, 1895)
The Kiel Canal, enlargements of two sections
The Kinetic Camera of Birt Acres
Working drawing for the Kinetic Camera
The Birt Acres Experimental Camera
The Birtac, patented by Birt Acres in 1898
Press notice of the first film projection demonstration in the UK
Handbill advertising the Kineoptikon
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II (PaulAcres, 1895)
Advertisement for the Kineopticon
The Queens Hall, Peoples Palace, London
Programme of the Queens Hall
Handbill for programme of films by Birt Acres
Letter from R.W. Paul to the Lord Chamberlains Office
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
The Cinmatographe-Lumire
Felicien Trewey
Frame enlargement from Partie dcart (Lumire, 1896, cat. 73)
Felicien Treweys booklet on shadowgraphy
The Polytechnic, Regent St, London
(a) Programme for the Cinmatographe-Lumire; (b) Francis Pochet
Handbill for the Cinematographe-Lumiere
The Empire Theatre, Leicester Square
Theatre programmes and Treweys booklet on shadowgraphy
Handbill for the Cinematographe-Lumiere
Advertisement for the Cinematographe-Lumiere
Matt Raymond
Letter from Trewey to Mr De Vere
City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury
The Royal Institution, Albemarle St, London
(a) Olympia, Addison Rd, Kensington; (b) official programme
Front cover of programme from Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Sq., London
Alhambra Theatre
Handbill advertising Pauls Theatrograph
Sadlers Wells Theatre, London
Programme of the Royal Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Rd, London
The Filoscope, invented by H.W. Short
The Soldiers Courtship (R.W. Paul, 1896)
Mary and Flora Hengler
The Derby (R.W. Paul, 1896)
A Sea Cave Near Lisbon (R.W. Paul, 1896)
(a) David Devant; (b) The Egyptian Hall
(a) Carl Hertz; (b) SS Norman
Programme of the Royal Command Film Performance at Windsor Castle
(a) Hercat; (b) Skegness Pier
Playbill announcing Coles ventriloquist and film entertainment
(a) Advertisement for the Victoria Hall, Brighton; (b) The Victoria Hall
Posters advertising Pauls Theatrograph
The Royal Aquarium, Westminster
Advertisement for Riggs Kinematograph
Riggs Kinematograph and Camera
Riggs Kinematograph including detail of intermittent mechanism
The intermittent mechanism of Riggs Kinematograph
Alternative mechanism for Riggs Kinematograph
The intermittent mechanism of Rosenbergs Cinematograph
Rosenbergs Cinematograph
Advertisement for Wrenchs Cinematograph
The Wrench Cinematograph
The Motorgraph camera and projector
Wrays Kineoptoscope
Appletons Cieroscope
Appletons Cieroscope No. 1
The Animatoscope
The Ottway Animatoscope projector
Queen Victoria and royal visitors at Balmoral
The Velograph
The intermittent mechanism of the Grand Kinematograph
The Newman Cinematograph
Naishs Cinematograph
John Nevil Maskelyne
Poster advertising the Mutagraph
The Greene-Prestwich Projector
Cabinet photograph by A. Esm Collings
Cabinet photograph taken in studio controlled by Friese-Greene and Collings
Deans Yard, 25 Ditchling Rise, Brighton
Auguste Van Biene
Programme of the Anarithmoscope at the Peoples Palace
Handbill issued by Randall Williams in 1897
The Agricultural Hall, Islington
The Vitagraphe made by Clement & Gilmer
The Kinetographe de Bedts
The Kinetographe de Bedts
Andertons Hotel in Fleet St, London
The Chronophotographe of Georges Demeny
Cabinet photographs of the Prince and Princess of Wales
Marlborough House, London
The Ross-Hepworth arc-lamp
70 mm film depicting Queen Victoria and Tzar Nicholas II
Advertisement issued by the European Blair Co. Ltd
George Eastman
35 mm film measurer
Pauls developing and drying outfit
(a) List of films for the Theatrograph; (b) Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet
Frame illustrations from two films by Birt Acres
Films by Esm Collings and Birt Acres offered for sale by Romain Talbot
Train: Arrival of the Paris Express (Paul, 1896)
A Comic Costume Race at the Music Hall Sports
Westminster: Street Traffic near the Houses of Parliament
Children at Play
David Devant: The Egg Laying Man
Chirgwin (Hat)
Chirgwin (Pipes)
Mr Maskelyne Spinning Plates and Basins
Blackfriars Bridge with passing traffic and pedestrians
The Gordon Highlanders
The Twins Tea Party
List of films showing at the Alhambra Theatre
Donkey Riding (Esm Collings, 1896)
Foreword by David Robinson