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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Footage discovered and restored by the British Film Institute. Between 1900-1913, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed the country filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. Discovered some seventy years later, the film boasts a world exclusive: the first ever film footage of Manchester United. Episode 1 - Life And Times: The first episode covers the history of the discovery of the films by Peter Worden and the restoration by the Bfi's National Film and Television Archive. Trams, horse drawn carriages, pedestrians, and a newcomer, the car, crowd the streets. It also shows a nation is at war on foreign soil, with films showing both true Boer War heroes, and fictional Boer War villains. Episode 2 - Sport And Pleasure: For the first time the British worker started to enjoy their leisure time, and organised sporting events took off like never before. In Episode 2 we see teams like Blackburn, Sheffield and Manchester United all play. Leisure time also meant the rise of the working resort towns, with holidays at Blackpool and egg tosses at home. Episode 3 - Saints And Sinners: We see the conclusion of this extraordinary series on Mitchell and Kenyon. Highlights include the first ever crime reconstruction film, the success of Mitchell and Kenyon in the United States, and the ultimate demise of their partnership as the rise of cinemas put new pressures on filmmakers. ...The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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"Moving" as in "touching" of course. This is a real treasure indeed and every UK household should have one of these. When I watched the series on BBC2 I was amazed at how exciting these images look to the modern eye. You are watching real people who are in fact real ghosts and you are, without realising it, looking for someone you know in there. A really moving experience. If you haven't bought that one yet, do so now as this is a thing of unsurpassed beauty. Don't forget to look out for the amazing restoration work by the BFI. I hope the BBC or the BFI release a DVD of the original, uninterrupted material at some point.
38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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I'm amazed there aren't hundreds of reviews for this totally absorbing DVD. We, or I at least have tended to think of these times in a somewhat two-dimensional frame, chiefly evoked by those stern faced poses photographs of frowning moustachioed men and their anaemic looking spouses staring into the 'light-boxes' Yet here we have this mesmerizing pre-documentary-documentary of real people doing real things! Alas It's 'stars' are all long dead now...even the babies and toddlers have returned to the dust, their world is no more, yet now, so many generations later we can watch them go about there business, spilling out of the factories, shopping, working & playing [the panning shots taken from the trams are utterly superb, even by today's standards!] in a world a thousand worlds away from ours. This is *before* TV & Radio, before WWI and the Titanic. Such innocence captured for all to see. Everybody should see this moving DVD. This is not somebody's biased account of "the way we lived" this is *real* history...the peoples history.
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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This series had a real purpose i.e to introduce people to the world of Mitchell and Kenyon. The silly slapstick acted interludes were very irritating and so was the cooing Cruickshank .
A much wiser buy is the BFI edition " Electric Edwardians " - far more footage that is allowed to speak for itself with an illuminating interview with Dr Vanessa Toulmin of the National Fairground Archive , who was the historical consultant to this series and whose painstaking research has allowed us to know what M & K were filming , where and when .
A much wiser buy is the BFI edition " Electric Edwardians " - far more footage that is allowed to speak for itself with an illuminating interview with Dr Vanessa Toulmin of the National Fairground Archive , who was the historical consultant to this series and whose painstaking research has allowed us to know what M & K were filming , where and when .
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Mitchell&Kenyon
A very well produced and cleaned up record of a memorable time in our past. Looking at our grandparents' peers is eerie!
Published 12 days ago by Mr. John S. Gammon
MITCHELL & KENYON
Absolutely delighted with the DVD. It is exciting to see the films at normal speed instead of the old flickering and jerky images we are used to seeing and it brings the people to... Read more
Published 9 months ago by cheshire exile
A good documentary on history
This dvd is a good example of a historic documentary but it doesn't have subtitles so that makes it not so good for people who are studying English as a second language. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Kim
Fabulous!
A wonderful window on to the past. Excellent for the researcher or those intrigued by the past. Dan Cruickshank's easy and informative style of presentation makes for lovely... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Jonathan Foster
The Lost World of Mitchell And Kenyon
I had viewed the series on BBC and I was looking for a dvd of the series when I saw it advertised on Amazon, I was delighted to receive this plus a second copy which I will give to... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2009 by Jeffrey Rush
Brilliant
Can't fault these films, as a piece of social history. BTW, played this as a ' backdrop ' at a 100th Birthday Party recently it was fantastic..
Published on 29 Nov 2007 by Graham M. Long
Fascinating & infuriating
This documentary is in equal parts fascinating and infuriating. Fascinating for the richness of Mitchell & Kenyon's films, the remarkable quality of the images and the often... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2005 by K. G. Godwin
faces from the past
i love this stuff, it really makes the hairs stand up on the back of your kneck. think back, before satelite and digi tv, beyond that even , before dvd, and even before video, in... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2005 by Mr. J. R. Regan
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