Movies: Mitchell Kenyon

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

It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the site; issues of the crowd's health and safety are clearly not a concern, as people smile, wave and sa...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

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....

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It shows the exterior of the house where he was hiding during a nationwide manhunt and re-enacts scenes of the la...

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble....

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon....

A breathtaking winter journey in the Pennines, from country to town and back again via electric tram....

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked Westerners and any Chinese who associated with Westerners. In this short, a Chinese government execu...

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

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry....

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...

Athletes and acrobats wow the crowds at the annual Cycling Club carnival....

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal....