Resources
Webmaster:
David
Clover
Downloadable Documents
These documents may be freely downloaded and used - but please acknowledge this website when doing so.
- 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)
- Slide Presentation 1 (small) - PPT 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
- Slide Presentation - HTML format (given to the Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth January 2003)
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
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- University of Montreal - Account of Cruise of HMS Ophir
- Plymouth's Cinemas (Bryan Mosely paragraph description)
- Local Heroes (Portsmouth News article)
- Harry Ransom Research Centre (Some prints catalogued)
- The 20 Raters (photographs by G. West and Son)
Resource Libraries
- Intute - Arts and Humanities Resources - a formal record of the site
- AHDS Performing Arts - formal Deposit of the raw files from this site intended as an online collection and historic record for posterity. AHDS Performing Arts is part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). It collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use of digital resources to support research and teaching across the broad field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance.