Mitchell and Kenyon -Lancashire Documentary Film Pioneers
Mitchell and Kenyon in 1905 filmed the unvailing of Queen Victoria's statue
This is the type of subject for a Mitchell and Kenyon film. It was filmed in 2001 by William Ferguson in Tajikistan and shows children watching a horse race.
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Mitchell and Kenyon 1901 film Factory Workers
Mitchel rigged up a movie camera to an aeroplane and was the first to film the Lancashire coast.
The picture was taken from theair by William Ferguson on a flight across America in 2003.
The British Film Institutes have a DVD of the Mitchell and Kenyon films. This can be obtained from them.
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The Sheffield University National Fairground Archive contains further reporting about Mitchell and Kenyon. Click the web page to visit the University's pages on this subject.
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Mitchell and Kenyon were film makers at the turn of the 20century. They were film pioneers and filmed actualities in the North of England. They also filmed several important historical events.
They are credited with filmimg Queen Victoria's funeral. Mitchel filmed in London. Kenyon filmed scenes at Windsor castle. I believe this is the footage often seen in documentary movies about Victorian and Edwardian times.
Movie footage of Queen Victoria's funeral can be seen on the Pathe web site. http://www.britishpathe.com/
Ask search to find Funeral of Queen VictoriaThey also filmed fictional stories about current events. Their Boer War movies were filmed in the countryside around Blackburn. This is the best known example of their story films.
