[2] It was filmed from a single position at the Gorleston Pier end of the harbour, looking back towards Great Yarmouth itself.

The second, which was premiered in 1897, has not survived, but depicted passengers being loaded onto (or unloaded from) a pleasure boat on the beach.

[3] The "attractive Victorian film," was according to Christian Hayes of BFI Screenonline, "one of the twenty-one subjects presented by Birt Acres to the royal family on 21st July 1896, the day before the marriage of Princess Maud to Prince Charles of Denmark, at one of the first royal film performances.

[5] This "decaying print," according to Patrick Russell of the BFI, "was discovered and duplicated just in time for 1996's celebration of 100 years of projected film in Britain.

"[6] Hayes concludes that "the fragmentary nature of the film - the jarring cuts and the deterioration of the print - only serve to make it all the more intriguing."