1895 BIRT ACRES (1854 - 1918) ROUGH SEA AT DOVER

BIRT ACRES (1854 - 1918) ROUGH SEA AT DOVER 1895

ROUGH SEA AT DOVER (this is a three second looped animation)
Sometime between March
and May of 1895 Acres films several more shorts, one of which
he titles 'Rough Sea At Dover'. Other short films photographed by
Acres were; 'The Derby', 'The Boxing
Kangaroo', 'Comic Shoe Black' and
'Arrest of a Pickpocket' as well as others.

Shortly after the production
of these shorts, Acres parts company with Robert Paul. It
will be almost a year before Acres looks through another lens.

Acres career will sink
into history and obscurity as the career of Robert Paul will
soar. 'Rough
Sea At Dover' was shown to an invited audience
at Finsbury Technical College, London.

The words of a reporter
at the screening . . .

"The second film [Rough Sea At Dover]
represented the breaking of waves on the seashore. Wave after wave
came tumbling on the sand, and as they struck, broke into tiny floods
just like the real thing. Some people in the front row seemed to be afraid
they were going to get wet, and looked to see where they could run, in
case the waves came too close."