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Mitchell & Kenyon capture the 'lighter' side of Lancastrian officialdom.
Non-Fiction 1902 mins Silent
Local dignitaries often crop up in Mitchell and Kenyon's films, but this amusing vignette outside Lancaster Town Hall is something of a curio. It's not known whether the short 'comedian' was a local celebrity, but the entertaining interaction would certainly have been staged to enliven AD Thomas's compilation of 'animated pictures', playing at the town's Palace of Varieties in March/April 1902.
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Non-Fiction 1901 5 mins Silent Location: Hyde Park
The crowds stand silent as the nation says goodbye to Queen Victoria in February 1901.
Non-Fiction 1902 9 mins Silent Location: Old Elvet, Durham
Thousands march up Old Elvet in Durham to mark the Coronation of Edward VII.
Non-Fiction 1902 4 mins Silent Location: Doncaster
A well-respected community figure is laid to rest in Edwardian South Yorkshire.
Non-Fiction 1902 2 mins Silent Location: Leeds
Edward VII's rescheduled coronation was held on 8th August, not a nice day in Leeds...
Non-Fiction 1902 6 mins Silent
Businesses, unions, religious representatives and civic dignitaries march through Cork.
Non-Fiction 1901 2 mins Silent Location: Edinburgh
Mourners process through the wintry streets of Edinburgh.
Home movie 1950 9 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Congratulations to the happy couple! A lovely record of a special day in Lancaster.
Non-Fiction 1902 1 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
A great surge of workers pushes through the gates of a Lancashire mill.
Non-Fiction 1901 2 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Lancastrian workers spill out of a huge textile factory.
Non-Fiction 1902 3 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Some nifty product placement creeps in to this formal portrait of the Lancaster Volunteers.
Non-Fiction 1902 2 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Workers at a Lancaster linoleum factory leave and the gate is firmly shut behind them.
Advert 1967 2 mins Location: Devon
Mrs Cross takes the Daz test but what will the outcome be?
Advert 1954 20 mins
Points of view from a production company at the outset of commercial television in the UK.
Advert 1938 1 mins Silent
From out of the vaults comes this pre-WWII cinema advert for ice-cream
Advert 1953 2 mins
A hard-working Catford clippie and her family star in this cinema ad for hot chocolate.
Advert 1972 1 mins
In 1972 Britain entered the European common market full of beans. What could go wrong?
Advert 1952 2 mins
A cup of Horlicks helps a struggling husband bring home the bacon in this 1950s advert.
