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

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

This fascinating record of Edwardian Nottingham was filmed from the driver's platform of a tram on a single journey through the city centre between its two main stations. The sequence follows the same route as today's Nottingham Express Transit tramw...

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

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

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

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....

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

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...

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

Old film taken in Lancashire, North England in May 1904....

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...

These evocative scenes of Edwardian Dublin include views of the old houses of parliament (later home to the Bank of Ireland), and the gates of Trinity College. By 1902 the city's tram system was already electrified and this film shows a busy urban Du...

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry....

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

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...

Beginning with panoramic shots of the Colthurst estate and Blarney Castle – already a popular tourist attraction by the Edwardian era – this film takes a trip through County Cork via Leemount and Carrigrohane stations. It was filmed in late spring an...

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground....

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