The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon,9781844570461

The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon

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ISBN13: 9781844570461
ISBN10: 1844570460
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-12-07
Publisher(s): British Film Inst
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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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