The Mitchell & Kenyon Collection

For around seventy years, 800 rolls of early nitrate film sat in sealed barrels in the basement of a shop.

Now miraculously rediscovered and restored, the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection is an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

It is the most exciting film discovery of recent times and promises to radically transform British film history.

Google Earth

To take a tour of the people and places in the Mitchell & Kenyon films, more films will continue to be added:

  1. Download Google Earth
  2. Add The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon Layer
    (right click then ' Save Link/Target as...')

AboutAbout the Collection

The collection was recently discovered in two large barrels.

Image GalleryImage Gallery

Browse through frame grabs of films from the the Mitchell & Kenyon collection

ResearchResearch Project

Research into this unparalleled social record of early 20th-century British life.

PreservationThe Preservation Process

Years of painstaking work has gone into preserving these films.

Show Mitchell & Kenyon in your local cinema

Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon is a special compilation of highlights from the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection, available for UK cinema hire.