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Incident at Clovelly Cottage (1895)

Incident at Clovelly Cottage poster
Directed by
Birt Acres
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1 min
Rating
3.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

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A short film showing an everyday moment outside a cottage in Barnet, England. It was the first successful motion picture made in Britain.

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What happens

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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