About the film
Barnet Fair is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent actuality film produced by Birt Acres. The surviving portion shows roundabouts at the fair and can be viewed on the BFI Player. This was the first moving picture record of the event.
Birt Acres would go on to make five further films of the fair in 1897.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).