The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon

The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon contains essays from leading historians covering film history, popular entertainment, the seaside, transport and the social and economic context of Edwardian Britain. Together they provide a vivid commentary on the Peter Worden Mitchell and Kenyon collection of films.

Vanessa Toulmin is Research Director, National Fairground Archive at the University of Sheffield, and a leading authority on Victorian entertainment and film. Simon Popple is Principal Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Teeside. Patrick Russell is Keeper of Non-Fiction at the British Film Institute.

I Overviews

Introduction to the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection

Vanessa Toulmin, Patrick Russell and Simon Popple

3

(3)

1 Mitchell and Kenyon: A Successful, Pioneering and 'Travelled' Partnership of Production

Timothy Neal, Vanessa Toulmin and Rebecca Vick

6

(6)

2 Truth at 10 Frames per Second? Archiving Mitchell and Kenyon

Patrick Russell

12

(9)

3 'A real brake on progress'? Moving Image Technology in the Time of Mitchell and Kenyon

Leo Enticknap

21

(12)

II The Films in Context/The Film Text

4 From the Factory Gate to the 'Home Talent' Drama: An International Overview of Local Films in the Silent Era

Stephen Bottomore

33

(16)

5 Pictures of Crowd Splendor: The Mitchell and Kenyon Factory Gate Films

Tom Gunning

49

(10)

6 'We take them and make them': Mitchell and Kenyon and the Travelling Exhibition Showmen

Vanessa Toulmin

59

(10)

7 New Century Pictures: Regional Enterprise in Early British Film Exhibition

Richard Brown

69

(14)

8 Mitchell and Kenyon in the North East

David Williams

83

(10)

9 The Irish Films in the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection

Robert Monks

93

(10)

10 Mitchell and Kenyon in Wales

Dave Berry

103

(10)

11 Mitchell and Kenyon's Legacy in Scotland - The Inspiration for a Forgotten Film-making Genre

Janet McBain

113

(12)

III The Films as Historical Evidence

12 'We had fine banners': Street Processions in the Mitchell and Kenyon Films

Andrew Prescott

125

(12)

13 Mitchell and Kenyon: Ceremonial Processions and Folk Traditions

John Widdowson

137

(13)

14 'Startling, realistic, pathetic': The Mitchell and Kenyon 'Boer War' Films

Simon Popple

150

(8)

15 The Seaside and the Holiday Crowd

John K. Walton

158

(11)

16 The Football Films

David Russell

169

(12)

17 On the Move in the Streets: Transport Films and the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection

Ian Yearsley

181

(10)

18 Tram Rides and Other Virtual Landscapes

Patrick Keiller

191

(10)

Notes on Contributors

201

(2)

Index

203

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The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon

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