Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour
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Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour is an 1896 British
short
black-and-white
silent
documentary film
, directed by Birt Acres
, featuring a fleet of fishing smacks leaving the harbour at Great Yarmouth
, Norfolk, UK. The "attractive Victorian film," was according to Christian Hayes of BFI Screenonline, "one of the twenty-one subjects presented by Birt Acres to the royal family on 21st July 1896, the day before the marriage of Princess Maud to Prince Charles of Denmark, at one of the very first royal film performances." The film was long considered lost but footage discovered in the Henville collection in 1995 has been identified by the BFI as being from this film. This "decaying print," according to Patrick Russell of the BFI, "was discovered and duplicated just in time for 1996's celebration of 100 years of projected film in Britain." Hayes concludes that, "the fragmentary nature of the film - the jarring cuts and the deterioration of the print - only serve to make it all the more intriguing."
United Kingdom
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short
Short subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
black-and-white
Black-and-white
Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
, directed by Birt Acres
Birt Acres
Birt Acres was a photographer and film pioneer.Born in Richmond, Virginia to English parents, he invented the first British 35 mm moving picture camera, the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector, Birtac, was the first travelling newsreel reporter in international film history and...
, featuring a fleet of fishing smacks leaving the harbour at Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth, often known to locals as Yarmouth, is a coastal town in Norfolk, England. It is at the mouth of the River Yare, east of Norwich.It has been a seaside resort since 1760, and is the gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the sea...
, Norfolk, UK. The "attractive Victorian film," was according to Christian Hayes of BFI Screenonline, "one of the twenty-one subjects presented by Birt Acres to the royal family on 21st July 1896, the day before the marriage of Princess Maud to Prince Charles of Denmark, at one of the very first royal film performances." The film was long considered lost but footage discovered in the Henville collection in 1995 has been identified by the BFI as being from this film. This "decaying print," according to Patrick Russell of the BFI, "was discovered and duplicated just in time for 1996's celebration of 100 years of projected film in Britain." Hayes concludes that, "the fragmentary nature of the film - the jarring cuts and the deterioration of the print - only serve to make it all the more intriguing."