Landing at Low Tide is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent comedy film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a lady falling into the water as she is helped from a small boat. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film.[1]

Landing at Low Tide
Screenshot from the film
Directed byBirt Acres
Produced by
CinematographyBirt Acres
Release date
  • June 1896 (1896-06)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

Current status

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Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.

References

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  1. ^ "A brief History: A 1896 Fairground Programme - The George Williams Collection". Europa Film Treasures. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
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