All Films

Review of the Indian Contingent at Hampton Court

1902 • 1 min

Soldiers from the Indian Army march at Hampton Court Palace (London, England) in celebration of the coronation of Edward VII.

Starting a Skyscraper

1902 • 1 min • United States of America

Taken in the immense excavation for the foundation of the new Macy building at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street, New York.

The Little Match Seller

1902 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are visions: a fireplace, dinner, a Christmas tree. She sees her dead mother, welcoming her.

Ambush II at Eyrefield Lodge, Curragh

1902 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Final of International Cup at Cork Regatta Between Leander and Berlin

1902 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The International Cup Races were held at Cork over three days in July (21st , 22nd, 23rd) and they marked the climax of the great Cork Exhibition of that summer.

Day School Sports at Park Avenue, Bradford

1902 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Barrels of laughs and sackfuls of fun at a school sports event in Edwardian West Yorkshire.

Workers Leaving Lee Boot Factory — Dwyer & Co. Ltd., Cork

1902 • 1 min

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.

Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks, Cork

1902 • 2 min • United Kingdom

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned return home. Despite Irish misgivings, some 30,000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War. In a neat lesson in colonial history, the barracks were named after Queen Victoria in 1849 and rapidly re-named 'Collins Barracks' after Irish independence.

Life in Wexford

1902 • 3 min • United Kingdom

These short scenes were filmed in January 1902 in and around Wexford's Bull Ring market, capturing an array of local characters, including a cheery fishwife. Children and members of the Royal Irish Constabulary mingle with the traders and customers. The Mayor of Wexford, in his official regalia, appears with his daughters. The films were later shown at the Theatre Royal, Wexford. This film was shot during a two-day visit to the South East Ireland town by Mitchell and Kenyon cameraman Louis De Clercq. The man in the pale hat seen walking arm-in-arm with another man towards the camera may be Hugh McCarthy, manager of Wexford's White Hotel. The same man reappears later, alongside the mayor and his daughters.

Charleston Chain-Gang

1902 • 1 min • United States of America

This picture shows the prisoners after completing their day's work of cleaning up the grounds of the Charleston Exposition, taking their positions along the long chain which secures the whole band of prisoners. They are marched past our camera to the prison, accompanied by the guards, who carry shotguns to prevent any from escaping.

Bradford Coronation Procession

1902 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Much of West Yorkshire turns out to mark the accession of King Edward VII to the throne.

L'arrivée en voiture - La remise des decorations - La sortie de la Chambre de Commerce

1902 • 1 min • France

Arrival by car - The ceremony decorations - The output of the Chamber of Commerce.

Dewsbury v Manningham

1902 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Rugby league footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.

The Dog and the Pipe

1902 • 2 min • France

Old gentleman stretches himself on the long seat of a French railway car, after placing numerous bundles in the rack above him, and also in the rack over the seat in the opposite side of the compartment. Train stops at next station and lady enters with her pet dog. Having bundles of her own which she wishes to place in the rack over her seat, she takes down the old man's bundles and places them on him and his seat. She then begins to fondle the dog. Old man gets angry, takes his large pipe and begins to smoke. Lady objects and after an argument snatches the pipe from the man and throws it out the window. The man reciprocates by throwing the dog out. Lady enraged, tugs vigorously at the bell rope. Train stops and scene changes to outside. Behold the dog sitting on his haunches with the pipe in his mouth, much to the surprise of the old gentleman and lady, and also the audience.

Hull Kingston Rovers v Wigan

1902 • 4 min

Northern Union game from 25 Oct 1902

Salida de los obreros de la fábrica

1902 • 1 min • Argentina

Short film showing workers walking past the camera while leaving Cardini's iron furniture factory located in La Rioja Av, San Cristobal neighborhood in Buenos Aires. The director filmed the workers leaving his father's factory in a similar fashion as the Lumiere brothers. The short was considered lost for many years until it was found in 2020 by Lorena Bordigoni in the Polish National Center for Film Culture, to be then restored in 4K.

Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, First Scene

1902 • 1 min

The Coronation Day parade in London, on 9 August 1902. The first of two shots taken from the same camera position for the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company. It gives us crisp, clear images of the military great and good - thanks to the large-format 68mm film stock - but it's the second shot, not this one, that includes a glimpse of the King in his carriage.

Serenade to the Moon

1902 • 2 min • France

Second part of "Visions d'art" trilogy filmed in 1902 by Pathé Frères film studio. It was believed that only the third part of the trilogy had survived ("La Fée aux étoiles"). The second part was discovered in 2022 in Russian Gosfilmofond archive.

Panorama of Queenstown Harbour

1902 • 2 min • United Kingdom

It's not easy to view these beguiling scenic shots without burdening them with our knowledge of history. The pivotal site of Irish emigration, Queenstown witnessed countless departures (like that of the liner glimpsed here), each touched by excitement, apprehension and, all too often, tragedy. Previously Cove, it was later renamed Cobh by a newly independent state purging itself of Britishness.

Sheffield United v Bury

1902 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.

Serpentine Dance

1902 • 2 min • France

"Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587), "Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) or "La Gigue" (Gaumont #590).

Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity

1902 • 1 min • United States of America

Foxy Grandpa and Polly was a comic strip upon which husband and wife team Joseph Hart and Carrie DeMar based a musical for the stage. Here, in the third film of the series, they enter from our left, hand in hand, a sylvan backdrop behind them. They're in fancy dress: he in three-piece suit and tie, bowler hat in hand; she in frilly floor-length dress, hat, and long braid of hair behind. They do a carefully choreographed dance - he's comic with large nose and male-pattern baldness splitting white curly hair; she's festive and smiling. They stay in sync. The camera is stationary, and it's one take.

Lord Kitchener's Arrival at Southampton

1902 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Horatio Herbert Kitchener gets an enviable welcome on his return from the Second Boer War.

Tram Rides through Nottingham

1902 • 6 min • United Kingdom

This fascinating record of Edwardian Nottingham was filmed from the driver's platform of a tram on a single journey through the city centre between its two main stations. The sequence follows the same route as today's Nottingham Express Transit tramway, taking the viewer along Listergate and Wheelergate into Old Market Square before turning right into Long Row and on into Queen Street.