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.

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

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

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...

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

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...

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

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

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...

As well as its extensive railway network, Cork was served by an impressive tramway system, which was just four years old when this film was made. As...

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...

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

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

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

Silent film.

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