--- product_id: 18745515 title: "Electric Edwardians - The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon" brand: "electric edwardianssagar mitchell and james kenyon" price: "VT31194" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/18745515-electric-edwardians-the-lost-films-of-mitchell-and-kenyon store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Electric Edwardians - The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon **Brand:** electric edwardianssagar mitchell and james kenyon **Price:** VT31194 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Electric Edwardians - The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon by electric edwardianssagar mitchell and james kenyon - **How much does it cost?** VT31194 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/18745515-electric-edwardians-the-lost-films-of-mitchell-and-kenyon) ## Best For - electric edwardianssagar mitchell and james kenyon enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted electric edwardianssagar mitchell and james kenyon brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description In the earliest years of the twentieth century, enterprising traveling showmen in the north of England hired pioneer filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon to shoot footage of local people going about their everyday activities. These films would be shown later at nearby fairgrounds, town halls and neighborhood theaters. Workers, school children, sports fans and seaside vacationers all flocked to see themselves miraculously captured on screen! The astonishing discovery of the original Mitchell & Kenyon negatives in Blackburn, England — in a basement about to be demolished — has been described as film’s equivalent of Tutankhamen’s tomb. Preserved and restored by the bfi National Film and Television Archive in collaboration with the University of Sheffield National Fairground Archive and featuring a hauntingly beautiful score by In The Nursery, this treasure trove of extraordinary footage provides an unparalleled record of everyday life in the years before World War I. Mesmerizing scenes of trolley cars and crowded streets, soccer matches, temperance parades, throngs of workers leaving the factory and a myriad of simple pleasures transport us to another — lost — world. The effect is as if H.G. Wells’ marvelous time machine had come to life. .com Originally aired as part of a British TV series about British Primitives, The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon have been edited onto a DVD titled Electric Edwardians. This recently unearthed documentary footage provides a spooky glimpse into life during Britian’s Victorian Industrial Age. Filmed between 1900-1913 by Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon for traveling cinema tours, several short movies constitute each over-arching, topically-titled film: "Youth and Education," "The Anglo-Boer War," "Workers," "High Days and Holidays," and "People and Places." In "People and Places," one rides past the obsolete Horse Ambulance shop. In "High Days and Holidays," women sporting elaborate, lacy hats march down cobblestone streets for a parade, defunct carousels spin kids around, and the Blackpool Victoria Pier is packed with people. In "Workers," Dickensian boys wander the streets in berets, and in one affecting segment, 20,000 workers file into a factory. The films of Eadward Muybridge, or of French Lumiere, George Méliés, provide similar fascinating looks into early cinema, but watching this documentary footage conjures up ghosts, as does Carnival of Souls. Music accompaniment by In The Nursery adds to the spirited ambience. These silent films manage to speak volumes about their subjects. —Trinie Dalton P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review "A startling, vivid portrait of working class life a century ago." -- THE LONDON TIMES"An amazingly clear window into a horse-drawn society… Rare, hypnotically involving!" -- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES"No film show I’ve seen all year has more historical significance… or given me more honest delight… [An] amazing compilation!" -- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE"Spectacular!" -- SEATTLE TIMES See more ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000FSME60 | | Actors | Electric Edwardians | | Best Sellers Rank | #301,300 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #5,330 in Sports (Movies & TV) #12,341 in Documentary (Movies & TV) #17,950 in Kids & Family DVDs | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (14) | | Director | Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon | | MPAA rating | NR (Not Rated) | | Media Format | Black & White, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Restored | | Number of discs | 1 | | Product Dimensions | 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 3.2 ounces | | Release date | July 11, 2006 | | Run time | 1 hour and 25 minutes | | Studio | Milestone Video | ## Product Details - **Contributor:** Electric Edwardians, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon - **Format:** Black & White, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Restored - **Genre:** Kids & Family, Sports - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 25 minutes ## Images ![Electric Edwardians - The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41xXyil+F2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It Is As It Was *by R***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2017* Just for the faces alone! And the personalities of the people who hammed it up, or walked solemnly past, or waved and smiled, or scowled at the camera set up before them. For the mothers with the babies, the little sisters and brothers with the babies, the school teachers with their charges, the children performing drills, the bobbies on their beat, the worn and weary workers, the fishwives and dock hands on the wharf. Against the backdrop of street scenes, collieries, factories, school yards, ships, seaside and more.To think this could have been destroyed. Serendipity, fate, whatever, we are the luckier for this honest, unguarded glimpse into the past. Film makers Mitchell & Kenyon's mottos : "Local Films For Local People" and "We take them and make them", says it all. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Haunting, fascinating, real-life time travel *by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2006* If you have any interest at all in early cinema OR the edwardian period(and in that latter class I include people like myself--artists, costumers, reenactors, buffs), then this DVD is an absolute must. I'd never heard of the early silent films of Mitchell & Kenyon, but a New York Times mention of the new release of this collection made me order it the same day.These are short documentary films made in industrial towns in England and Belfast in 1900-1910. They were shot and (hard to believe) shown on the same day in special shows, some of which attracted thousands of people hoping to catch a glimpse of themselves and their friends on screen: promenading on a pier, riding incredible contraptions at a Whitsuntide holiday fair, or hanging around one of the huge factories that employed so many men, women and children. If this sounds boring--far from it: what you see are gorgeous, sharp prints of people behaving naturally in a time totally lost to our own. It's obvious that different clothes aside men and women haven't changed much since 1900. There's little prim and proper or stiff behavior here.Best of all for me there are often loads of kids in front of the camera. It's touching and charming to see boys and girls dressed like E. Nesbit's "Railway Children", but laughing, making faces, goofing around, pushing each other and generally behaving exactly as kids do in 2006...all of them long, long dead, but fully alive via the camera in a way a still photograph could never show. Truly a form of time travel, like discovering your own relatives' home movies of over a hundred years ago. Well worth adding to your library, the sort of thing one can pull out over and over and amaze others with. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Film: The One True Time Machine. *by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2006* I have a been a fan of silent films for over 40 years after seeing HAROLD LLOYD"S WORLD OF COMEDY in 1962 and after reading Kevin Brownlow's THE PARADE'S GONE BY shortly thereafter. However it was more than 25 years after that before I had the means to get a really good look at most of them. The technology of first VHS and now DVD finally allowed me the opportunity to see these old films in decent prints, projected at the right speed, and with the proper musical background. I am especially fond of early silent cinema which roughly dates from 1895-1918 before the domination of Hollywood began. I have a box set of DVDs called WHEN THE MOVIES BEGAN which features early efforts from England, Europe, and the United States. Another worthwhile set is THE ORIGINS OF FILM from the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress.This collection took me completely by surprise as 1) I was not at all familiar with the films of Mitchell and Kenyon and 2) the quality of these almost lost films was truly extraordinary. Not just the visual look of the films but the life from a century ago that they capture. The motion picture is the only true time machine that humans have come up with so far. Seeing these ordinary people doing ordinary things really makes you feel as if you are there. You are seeing living, breathing people even though they are long dead along with their way of life and the world they inhabited. For that reason alone this collection of short films and others like them (check out Kino's EDISON and LUMIERE BROTHERS) are worth their weight in gold and then some. A hearty thanks to Milestone Films and the British Film Institute for releasing this set and the extras it contains. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/18745515-electric-edwardians-the-lost-films-of-mitchell-and-kenyon](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/18745515-electric-edwardians-the-lost-films-of-mitchell-and-kenyon) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*