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Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour

Name: Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour
Director: Birt Acres
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1896-05-17T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 1 min
Rating: 3.2

18961m

Documentary

Overview

Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Birt Acres, featuring a fleet of fishing smacks leaving the harbour at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. The "attractive Victorian film," was according to Christian Hayes of BFI Screenonline, "one of the twenty-one subjects presented by Birt Acres to the royal family on 21st July 1896, the day before the marriage of Princess Maud to Prince Charles of Denmark, at one of the very first royal film performances."