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Released
1895 · FILM

Clovelly Cottage, Barnet

Color
Black & White
Runtime
1 min
Family

Synopsis

*Incident at Clovelly Cottage*, also known as *Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet*, was shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895. It is considered the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain." The film is considered lost, with only a few frames surviving.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 5

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Birt Acres

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