Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

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...

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...

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

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

A small battalion of Yorkshire schoolchildren lines up for a playground photograph.

Children hide behind a wall and throw snowballs at passersby. A policeman intervenes to stop the mischief but becomes a target himself.

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

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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

Rugby league footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.