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Gun Camera Type G.45

Aeronautics

1939-1945

Shirley Wellard "Universal" Film Cassette

Photographic Technology

1945-1955

Graphicel cartoon kit

Cinematography

c. 1970

Display Bottle Containing Mauveine Acetate

Industrial Chemistry

1910-1945

Film entitled "Chain Reaction", in two reels

Nuclear Physics

1960-1961

Star Finder and Identifier

Aeronautics

1942

Film entitled "Critical Size"

Nuclear Physics

1960-1961

Four pairs of stereoscopic photographs of cloud chamber tracks

Nuclear Physics

1960-1970

Shirley Wellard "Universal" Camera Film

Photographic Technology

1945-1955

Demonstration of reproduction of sound from sound

Sound Reproduction

1949

Electric personal printer, by Brother, 1982

Printing & Writing

1982

Film entitled "Chain Reaction", in two reels

Nuclear Physics

1960-1961

Film used at British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

Nuclear Energy

1970-1971

Three animation cels and a plain orange background from the animated film 'Tales of Hoffnung' by Halas and Batchelor, 1965. Bass player; man playing broom.

Animation cels and background from 'Tales of Hoffnung'

Cinematography

1965

Animation cel and background in a window mount from the animated film 'World of Little Ig'. Little Ig and tiger. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1956.

Animation cel and background from 'The World of Little Ig'

Cinematography

1956

Eastman roll film holder. Contains rolled film.

Eastman roll film holder

Photographic Technology

1885

Animation cel and background LR3/91 from the animated television series 'The Lone Ranger - The Secret of Warlock'. The Lone Ranger delivers a punch to a villain. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1967. 'Original artwork for 'Lone Ranger' series produced by Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd for the Wrather Corp USA to be shown by ABC television.' Signed on back in pencil by Halas. Mounted.

Animation cel and background from 'The Lone Ranger'

Cinematography

1967

Animation cel and background from the animated film 'Butterfly Ball'. Scene 16, frog playing guitar and singing in front of trees and sandy foreground. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1974.

Animation cel and background from 'Butterfly Ball'

Cinematography

1974

3 Animation cels and background from the animated film 'Animal Farm' by Halas and Batchelor, 1954. Farmer Jones lets off his gun, 2/62, box 1,44 ii.

Animation cels and background from 'Animal Farm'

Cinematography

c. 1954

Animation cel and background from the animated film 'Heavy Metal' (ref 395). Two robot figures with ruined building in the foreground. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1981.

Animation cel and background from 'Heavy Metal'

Cinematography

1981

The personal archive of the work of British animator Run Wrake (1965-2012). The archive consists of Wrake’s work from his college days through to his death and comprises scrapbooks, cells and drawings (including examples of how drawings were manipulated using photocopiers), storyboards (including the detailed synchronisation of image and music), found objects and images, original paintings and illustrations and notebooks. Twelve bankers boxes and four portfolio folders, plus a small number of loose larger works.

Run Wrake Animation Archive

Cinematography

late 20th century

Three animation cels and background from the animated film 'Tales of Hoffnung' by Halas and Batchelor, 1965. Man in arms of woman.

Animation cel and background from 'Tales of Hoffnung'

Cinematography

1965

Animation cel and background from the film 'Hamilton the Musical Elephant'. Hamilton the blue elephant flying in front of Big Ben. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1961.

Animation cel and background from 'Hamilton the Musical Elephant'

Cinematography

1961

Animation panning cel and background from the animated film 'Ruddigore'. Three couples dancing in street. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1964.

Animation cel and background from 'Ruddigore'

Cinematography

1964

Animation cels and background from the film 'Tales of Hoffnung' entitled 'The Vacuum Cleaner'. Salesman plugs in vacuum cleaner watched by family. Made by Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd, London, 1965.

Animation cels and background from 'Tales of Hoffnung'

Cinematography

1965

2 Animation cels and background from the animated film 'Animal Farm', by Halas and Batchelor, 1954. Cat and pigeon in barn, Scene 10 sequence 12.

Animation cel and background from 'Animal Farm'

Cinematography

c. 1954

Text panel entitled The Blues by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

The Blues

Photographs

Text panel entitled Rhyme and Reason by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

Rhyme and Reason

Photographs

1990

Text panel entitled Art and Society by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

Art And Society

Photographs

1990

Text panel entitled Life is a Temple by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

Literature and Medcine

Photographs

Image of person in a robe holding a script with text on it.

No matter what your colour sex or sexuality you have to take a stand

Photographs

1990

Black and white photograph of Carol at work in the Gillygate Restaurant and Bakery, a workers' co-operative which employs people with mental and physical disabilities, York 1984. Taken by Raissa Page.

Carol at work in the Gillygate restaurant

Photographs

1984

Colour photograph of of Brick and metal fence showing from the exteriro of a car park with sign Carpark with sign stating Attercliffe Environmental Corridor. Inside overlay card frame

Carpark with sign 'Attercliffe Environmental Corridor'

Photographs

Transparency showing the Metzger table-clock of 1564, one of the best table-clocks of the 1500s. As well as the time, it shows the time in Italian hours, the times of the sunrise and sunset and the length of the daylight period.

Transparency of the Metzger Table-Clock, 1964

Time Measurement

1964

Modern silver gelatin print by J. Allan Cash, titled "Old Ireland".

Old Ireland - print

Photographs

1940s-1950s

Copy print of women with two children in a cotton camp by Dorothea Lange. Orginal Mimsy location: 2015-5024/685.

Woman Living in Cotton Camp, , 1936

Photographs

Close up of women with eyes cast down, overexposed to suggest the image of a book by Lulu Quinn. Possibly entitled 'Libera Me'.

Untitled

Photographs

2001

Acetate for masking, a section of photograph entitled Blackpool 1968' printed and painted in red. Depicting an elderly couple walking along the seaside of Blackpool along a statue of ball dancers, by Tony Ray-Jones.

Acetate for masking

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1968

Acetate copy negative by J. Allan Cash, titled "Old Ireland".

Old Ireland - negative

Photographs

1940s-1950s

Acetate for masking, a section of photograph entitled 'Bacup Coconut Dancers' painted in black, by Tony Ray-Jones.

Acetate for masking

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1968

Acetate for masking, a section of photograph entitled 'Blackpool 1968' painted in black, by Tony Ray-Jones.

Acetate for masking

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1968

Photograph of person in a robe holding a script with text on it by Alex Hurst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

HIV doesn't have to be fatal

Photographs

Text panel entitled History by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

History

Photographs

1990

Eleven inch IBM 72 electric typewriter, Delegate type, serial no. 8000280. A revolutionary typewriter which employed an interchangeable typing head containing the 88 characters of a normal keyboard, an interchangeable ribbon and a fixed cartridge, 1961

IBM Electric Tpewriter, 1961

Printing & Writing

1961

Eastman roll film holder. An early attempt to reduce the weight of the number of glass negatives when working away from the studio. Forerunner of the cut-film. The holder was loaded with a length of film without paper backing and was returned for processing to Eastman. The later development was the paper safety backing which became the standard way for the smaller sizes that became popular. Some workers evolved personal methods of processing the films in their own darkrooms. Not very successful because of the difficulty in keeping the film level in the focal plan of large cameras.

Eastman roll film holder

Photographic Technology

1885

Text panel entitled Civlisiation and Discontents by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

Civlisiation and Discontents

Photographs

1990

Black and white photograph, man and women divided by a fence while kissing Inside overlay card frame. Inside overlay card frame

Couple kissing while divided by a fence

Photographs

Text panel entitled Notes from a balylonian ghetto by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

Notes from a balylonian ghetto

Photographs

Black and white photograph from a series entitled School Portraits, begun in 1981 by Dave Rutter. This doube portrait was taken at Whitgift school, Grimsby, South Humberside 1981. During his fellowship for Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts 1979 he took portraits of fishermen at work and at leisure.

Double image of boy, placed next to each other

Photographs

1981

Black and white photograph of three men beind a barbed wire fence. Inside overlay card frame

Three men behind barbed wire fence

Photographs