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A most amusing Winter scene. Shows a large number of boys, girls, men and women on top of an incline with their sleds and toboggans. They coast down the incline at a very high rate of speed.
A magician performs various tricks.
The camera was placed in almost the center of the compound area by the exhibit buildings, and the cameraman began to photograph and pan his camera simultaneously. The film consists of pictures of the walkways, pools of water, bridges over the pools, exhibit buildings, bandstands, statuary, and decorations of all nature that, put together, made up the Exposition in Charleston in 1902.
A view of New York's latest sky-scraper, the remarkable Flatiron Building, at the junction of Broadway, Fifth Ave., and 23rd St., New York. A panorama of the surroundings before a look upward toward the top of the scraper.
The game is held up for the camera to do a full tour of the cheering crowds at Trent Bridge, Notts County's home until 1910.
A parade of horses and vehicles on the Speedway, New York.
This lively series of shots of crowds enjoying various events at a university sports day was filmed on the grounds of Queen's College Cork (from 1908, University College Cork). This was next to what is now Fitzgerald Park, host to the 1902 Cork International Exhibition - the bridge-like structure visible in the background is the exhibition's water chute, long since dismantled.
Mitchell and Kenyon's 'factory gate' films are numerous, but this single shot of jovial workers in Great George's Street (now Washington Street) is the only Irish example to survive. Despite successive Acts of Parliament limiting child labour, there are still many young workers here. Under the 'half-time system', they would have split their time equally between school and work.
This is one of nine films in the Mitchell and Kenyon collection relating to this momentous exhibition, a key moment in Cork's early 20th century history. Highlights of the lavish pageantry include Lord Mayor Edward Fitzgerald, whose brainchild the exhibition was, and the pomp of the Royal Irish Constabulary, as well as the first lucky visitors to the newly opened exhibition grounds.
A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.
A ropey pitch and worse goalkeeping in a typical non-league football derby in Edwardian Yorkshire.
Barrels of laughs and sackfuls of fun at a school sports event in Edwardian West Yorkshire.
A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.
A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.
Crowds enjoying the spectacle at Birmingham Athletics Club.
Believed to be the first film that features Manchester United in their first season as 'Manchester United', rather than 'Newton Heath' as they were known at the time.
Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.
An epic tour of the places and people of Edwardian Bradford.