Frames from Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage

Three frames from a 35mm print of the first successful Kinetoscope film made in Britain in February 1895. Shot by Birt Acres, titled `Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage' (also known as Incident At Clovelly Cottage).

Incident at Clovelly Cottage was shot by Birt Acres on the Paul-Acres Camera and produced by Acres and Robert Paul in 1895. It has been described as the "first British film" and the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain." The plot is unknown as the film is lost with only a few frames surviving, but the surviving material features a woman with a pram, thought to be Acres' wife with their infant son, and a man in white who was identified by Acres as Henry Short. It was filmed outside Acres' home of Clovelly Cottage, 19 Park Road, Chipping Barnet in England.