Mitchell Kenyon Movies

Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, shot in Blackburn, England. It is...

Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

A lively crowd surround the camera filming a tram leaving Wigan Market Place.

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

Turn of the century rugby league.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

A dozen years before hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany, members of their respective royal families visited the Cork Exhibition...

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned...

The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot.

As well as its extensive railway network, Cork was served by an impressive tramway system, which was just four years old when this film was made. As...

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.

An epic tour of the places and people of Edwardian Bradford.

Yet another factory gate exit film from Mitchell and Kenyon.

The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding...

Evocative film of the passengers and crew of a ship docked at Liverpool.

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.