Birt Acres (July 23, 1854-1918), born in Richmond, Virginia, USA of English parents was a photographer and film pioneer. He was the inventor of the first British 35 mm moving picture camera, the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector, "Birtac", was the first travelling newsreel reporter in international film history and the first European film maker who had his films shown in the United States in public performances. Wikipedia
Birt Acres was born in Richmond Virginia in the USA in 1854 and became and orphan at the age of fourteen during the American civil war and was taken in by his aunt who became his guardian. www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/acres_bio.html
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One of the pioneers of the cinema, Acres was responsible for the first British film (a record of the traditional Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on 30 March 1895) using a camera he developed with Robert W. Paul. The collaboration started when Paul approach www.imdb.com/name/nm0010291/