Movies: Mitchell Kenyon

A ceremonial procession through what is thought to be Western Road to mark the opening of 1902's momentous Cork Exhibition. Marchers represent the Irish National Foresters and local clothing factory Sunbeam Industries, and there are also religious ta...

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

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...

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

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

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

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association....

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...

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...

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

Edwardian crowds enjoy a fancy-dress swimming race....

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift....

A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of two nurses from impending danger at the hands of Boer soldiers, thanks to the timely arrival of Briti...

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...

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

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...

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry....

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

The entry of the teams and action from both halves of an Edwardian football game at Ewood Park....

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony....