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Hometime for thousands of Teesside shipbuilders.
Non-Fiction 1900 3 mins Silent
This film was shown at Stockton-on-Tees' Exchange Hall, and Mitchell & Kenyon's advertising promised "magnificent animated pictures" of "10,000 Employees Leaving Stockton Shipyards." The filmmakers typically enticed their audiences with the prospect of seeing themselves on screen and for this reason they tried to include as many people in shot as possible, though there may not be 10,000 here...
Non-Fiction 1918 5 mins Silent Location: Barnstaple
Barnstaple's experimental concrete-hulled ship gets a visit from a jolly Italian admiral.
Non-Fiction 1911 5 mins Silent Location: Canning Town
HMS Thunderer is launched by the Archbishop of Canterbury's wife, in a ceremony attended by thousands of dignitaries and most of East London.
1935 25 mins Location: Barrow-In-Furness
Paul Rotha’s brilliant film of the building and launch of SS Orion from the shipyards of Barrow-in-Furness.
Non-Fiction 1896 1 mins Location: Stockton-on-Tees
The finish of the final race at Stockton race track
Amateur film 1978 7 mins Location: Stockton-on-Tees
Hawaii it is not, but the weather does not put these competitors off taking part in this Teesside river carnival.
Home movie 1947 5 mins Silent Location: Stockton-on-Tees
A charming portrait of school boys from Stockton on Tees in the first age of austerity.
Documentary 1956 29 mins Location: Stockton-on-Tees
Beautiful documentary record of the royal visit to Teesside in 1956, shot in gorgeous Kodachrome.
Non-Fiction 1925 19 mins Silent Location: Darlington
A grand parade of locomotives to celebrate 100 years of railways and the world’s first passenger trains
Documentary 1953 21 mins Silent Location: Stockton-on-Tees
Portrait of an innovative housing renewal scheme in Stockton-on-Tees - on which rests the future of many an urban slum.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1933 2 mins
Hand-drawn sound experiment by Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy.
Advert 1974 1 mins Location: Shaftesbury
A classic slice of British advertising history, though that hill's not as Northern as it looks...
Non-Fiction 1901 3 mins Silent Location: Rotherham
Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Great Moor St, Bolton
Eager youngsters burst out of the gates of a Victorian cotton mill.
Sport 1901 1 mins Silent Location: Henley-on-Thames
It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames
Advert 1898 1 mins Silent Location: St Pancras
An unusual farewell in this charming early film
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