Movies: Mitchell Kenyon

The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding from the water a pair of female legs. They hasten to the rescue, secure a bench and a long plank so as...

The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot....

Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, shot in Blackburn, England. It is believed to be the first Western film, pre-dating Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery by four yea...

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates....

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston....

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester....

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901....

Filmed around a month before the opening of the exhibition, these scenes show work still being carried out on the grounds, including the water chute (some 60 feet high) on the River Lee. The grounds were later renamed Fitzgerald Park after the Lord M...

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle....

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair....

A dozen years before hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany, members of their respective royal families visited the Cork Exhibition together on 8 May 1902. They are shown here inspecting one of its most imposing visual highlights: the giga...

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century....

The exact moment when the Victorian age turned into the Edwardian age, in this public proclomation in Blackburn, UK on Jan 22 or 23, 1901....

Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold....

A lively crowd surround the camera filming a tram leaving Wigan Market Place....

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots....

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire....

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned return home. Despite Irish misgivings, some 30,000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War. In a neat l...

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century....

Barrels of laughs and sackfuls of fun at a school sports event in Edwardian West Yorkshire....