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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 3 mins Silent Location: Elswick
An astonishingly crowded Victorian street reveals the vast scale of Tyneside manufacturing.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Kingston upon Hull
Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.
Non-Fiction 1900 2 mins Silent Location: Manchester
Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.
Non-Fiction 1901 2 mins Silent Location: Dumfries
Worshippers in their Sunday best file out of the Church.
Non-Fiction 1902 1 mins Silent
A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.
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.
Documentary 2020 11 mins
Searching for one of the last people to speak Gayle - a secret language the gay community were forced to invent during Apartheid.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 2017 4 mins
A comedy-drama animation about two best friends growing up in the same world but experiencing it completely differently.
Drama 2019 14 mins
An African Pentecostal Pastor questions everything she believes after a life-changing event.
Drama 2018 8 mins
Samona Olanipekun explores the concepts of home, identity and belonging, from the starting point of the theme of globalisation.
Drama 2017 16 mins
Compelling story of a complex relationship between an imperious father and his son.
Documentary 2020 28 mins
Three African American fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community.
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