Resources
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Downloadable Documents
These documents may be freely downloaded and used - but please acknowledge this website when doing so.
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A full set of newspaper references found so far covering West’s photographic (1881-1897) and cinematographic (1898-1913) career is available online and will be updated periodically.
- Alfred West - Autobiography - Sea Salts and Celluloid (Acrobat PDF Format)
- 1913 Catalogue - image of original including pictures (Acrobat PDF Format - 5Mb download)
- 1913 Catalogue - PDF text-only transcript (Acrobat PDF Format - 177k download)
- Russell Baldwin - Thesis paper on A.J.West (Acrobat PDF Format)
- summary Slide Presentation 1 (small) - HTM format (given to the Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth January 2003)
- Slide Presentation 2 (large - 27Mb) - PPT format given at various venues since 2005
Other documents in HTML format
- Contemporary Obituary
- Polytechnic Institute Poster
- British Library Catalogue Entry for 1913 Catalogue
Events and Talks
- 5th June 2005 - 'Artists at Sea'
(including illustrated talk about A J West and showing of surviving films)
Given at National Maritime Museum, Greenwich - 14 May 2011 - Oxford Naval
Symposium, St Anne's College, Oxford
(including talk and showing of film with special music composed by Charles Mauleverer)
External Links
- The Magic Screen A 2015 history of the Regent Street Cinema including a summary of Alfred West's work on page 118 and other references through the text (ISBN 978-0-9576124-6-4)
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- University of Montreal - Account of Cruise of HMS Ophir "Montreal Daily Star, May 3, 1902, p. 21 Quotes: "In the experience of the Ophir I thought that the monument erected at Ottawa to our late beloved Queen, and unveiled by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, would certainly be respected, but the storm of jeers The final pictures of the cruise, showing the return home and the Royal children going to meet their parents, and the final picture of His Majesty, the orchestra playing the National Anthem, brought things to a climax."
- Harry Ransom Research Centre (Some prints catalogued)
- The 20 Raters (photographs by G. West and Son)