# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/birt-acres
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:35:14.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/birt-acres"
name: "Birt Acres"
slug: "birt-acres"
description: "Birt Acres was an American and British photographer and film pioneer. Among his contributions to the early film industry are the first working 35 mm camera in Britain (Wales), and Birtac, the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector. He also directed a number of early silent films."
tagline: "Cinematographer and cinema innovator (1854–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Birt_Acres.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1854-07-23"
deathDate: "1918-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.41
  momentum:             2.965585611103243
  historical:           13.34622133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010291/"
    handle:    "nm0010291"
sources:
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    title: "Бірт Акрес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيرت اكريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt_Acres"
    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt_Acres"
    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt_Acres"
    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "بیرت ایکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Բերտ Էյքրզ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эйкрз, Берт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Birt Acres"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump