Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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...

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

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

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

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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...

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

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...

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

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

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

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

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...

Believed to be the first film that features Manchester United in their first season as 'Manchester United', rather than 'Newton Heath' as they were...

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

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

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

Turn of the century rugby league.