Sagar Mitchell

Movies

Electric Edwardians - The Films Of Mitchell And Kenyon
Director
Archive footage, recently discovered, shot by the Edwardian documentary film-makers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon. Selected from a total of 28 hours of material, this compilation is grouped into five sections: 'Youth and Education'; 'The Anglo-Boer War'; 'Workers'; 'High Days and Holidays' and 'People and Places'. It includes footage of ordinary people going about their everyday business, from the factory gates to football matches, and is set to a specially commisioned score by the Shieffield-based duo In the Nursery.
Whitsuntide Fair at Preston
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Scenes from a fair.
Trotting Match at Springfield Park, Wigan
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Horse and cart racing in Wigan.
Preston North End v Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Footage from a football match.
Northern Union Challenge Cup Final: Halifax v. Salford
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Turn of the century rugby league.
Diving Lucy
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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 to get out over the water to the point where the legs are sticking up. Just as they complete their preparations a policeman runs up and insists on going out to the rescue of the female in distress.
Laborers in Victorian England
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Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.
Laborers in Victorian England
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Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.
Race for the Muratti Cup at Manchester Wheelers’ Annual Race Meet
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Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.
AAA Championships at Fartown, Huddersfield
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A filmed record of the AAA Championships at Fartown, Huddersfield, 1901.
University Procession on Degree Day, Birmingham
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University Procession on Degree Day, Birmingham
University Procession on Degree Day, Birmingham
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University Procession on Degree Day, Birmingham
Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills, Hollinwood
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Alfred Butterworth and Sons
Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills, Hollinwood
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Alfred Butterworth and Sons
Manchester Band of Hope Procession
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Manchester Band of Hope Procession
Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery
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A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.
S.S Saxonia in Liverpool
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Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.
Cunard Mail Steamer Lucania Leaving for America
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Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.
Liverpool Street Scenes
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Shot at the intersection of Holy Corner in Liverpool, this street is a hive of people and traffic. Arguably during the first part of this century most trade was being conducted on the streets. When this was being filmed Liverpool had become a wealthy city, and the shop fronts are filled with items for sale.
20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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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.
Kidnapping by Indians
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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 years.