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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Rough Sea at Dover |
| Date | 1895 |
| Document Type | Film |
| Library/Archive | BFI National Archive |
| Collection | Victorian Compilation |
| Notes | 35mm, black and white, silent, 21 feet, (plus 10 feet of another film). |
| Topics | film, silent |
| Director | Birt Acres (photographer) |
| Producer | R. W. Paul |
| Production Company | Paul's Animatograph Works |
| Duration | 00:01:01 |
| Genre | actuality |
| Description | One of the oldest surviving British films, 'Rough Sea at Dover' was shot in 1895 and intended for exhibition in peephole kinetoscopes. Birt Acres, a professional photographer, shot the film with a camera designed and built by R. W. Paul, based on Thomas Edison's invention (Paul took advantage of Edison's failure to copyright his kinetoscope in Britain). The film received its premiere on 14 January 1896 at the Royal Photographic Society in Hanover Street, London - the first public film screening in Britain, a month after the Lumière Brothers showed their films in Paris. |
| Copyright | BFI National Archive |