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Band Marching Down a Street (1896)
 

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35mm, black and white, silent, 38 feet
 
PhotographyBirt Acres

A uniformed marching band passes down a street.

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Also known as Tommies on the March and possibly Church Parade of Troops (it appears to fit historian John Barnes' description of a film of that title), this is one of the surviving actuality shorts that pioneering cinematographer Birt Acres' made in the mid-1890s, featuring a shot of a marching band passing down a street, seen from a fixed camera position. The middle of the picture is badly out of focus, though as the faces of the soldiers reach the right of the frame they spring into sharp relief.

Michael Brooke

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Acres, Birt (1854-1918)