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Crowds of cotton workers flow through the gates of the Clitheroe textile mill.
Non-Fiction 1901 3 mins Silent
In the opening shots one of the Poole brothers, who commissioned this film, bows to the camera in true showman style. Film exhibition was a fiercely competitive business, and Mitchell and Kenyon worked for more than 40 different companies. Advertising was vital to success and here we actually see the showmen distributing leaflets promoting the forthcoming cinematograph event to the crowds.
Non-Fiction 1900 3 mins Silent Location: Chorley
Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.
Non-Fiction 1900 2 mins Silent Location: Leyland
Another shift ends in Victorian Lancashire, while children play in the street.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Nelson
Lively Lancashire millworkers, including young boys and girls, at the mill gates.
Non-Fiction 1901 2 mins Silent
Where was this Edwardian paper works?
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: St Helens
Weary glassmakers head home after morning shift.
Non-Fiction 1901 4 mins Silent Location: Birmingham
A rich impression of a vibrant Midlands works, in an unusually elaborate 'factory gate' film.
Amateur film 1944 11 mins Location: Low Moor
The revolutionary British invention of the Bailey Bridge takes centre stage in this Royal Engineer training film from the Second World War.
Non-Fiction 1913 17 mins Silent Location: Clitheroe
Local Churches join together to celebrate a religious festival with parades and pageantry.
Amateur film 1948 6 mins Silent Location: Gisburn
What a picture - capturing the art of horsemanship in Lancashire.
Non-Fiction 1912 10 mins Silent Location: Clitheroe
Brollies and ceremonial regalia are out in force in Clitheroe for Mayor's Sunday.
Non-Fiction 1902 13 mins Silent Location: Clitheroe
Lancashire bands and Beefeaters celebrate the crowning of King George V.
Promotional 2019 10 mins
A wandering warrior dreams of a new form of expression, in this promo for UNKLE’s album The Road: Part II / Lost Highway Pt. II directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.
1935 16 mins
A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour: the Thames has never looked lovelier.
Advert 1946 1 mins Silent
Life is looking up! The war is over and the “Corona” Man can visit his “Corona” families once more, door-to-door.
Advert 1962 0 mins Location: Rhyl
Cinema advertisement for Marine Lake & Ocean Beach, Rhyl, a popular destination for crowds set on a day's fun on free rides.
Advert 1942 7 mins Silent Location: Blaenau Ffestiniog
Who could deny these advertising claims: "Attractive hair is the ambition of every woman", and "Your family will enjoy Lincoln potatoes"?
Advert 1955 1 mins
Operatic chickens, shrimps and salmon sing-a-long with a paste pot chorus in this vibrantly animated advert for Shippam's
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