Career
He is best known for a five-volume history entitled The Beginnings of Cinema in England, 1894-1901. Barnes was born in London in 1920. He had a twin brother named William.
Their father worked for the family"s piano manufacturing business, West.H. Barnes, but died when they were 12 years old.
They were educated at Canford School in Wimborne, Dorset. After this, they acquired a camera and began making films about Kent and Cornwall.
They also set up a cinema at their school.