Mitchell & Kenyon: UK tour booking

Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon is a special compilation of highlights from the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection, available for UK cinema hire from February 2005

The Mitchell & Kenyon Collection ranks as the most exciting film discovery of recent times: in order to bring it to life and show it to a whole new generation, the bfi has created a programme of highlights available for cinema hire across the country - Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon.

Available from February 2005, the programme lasts for approximately 90 minutes (including screening plus live presentation) and covers a range of subjects - Youth and Education, Workers, High Days and Holidays, People and Places, and there will be additional material on offer with specific local interest. We can see children taking part in parades and processions and young lads playing up in front of the cameras as they leave the mill where they work. There are remarkable images of coal miners leaving the pithead in Pendlebury and emigrants boarding a ship at Liverpool bound for the United States. We can take a tram ride into Halifax or a walk along the promenade at Morecambe. The programme even contains the earliest surviving footage of Manchester United playing in its first season, 1902, having just changed its name from Newton Heath.

Available in multiple formats, the programme features a specially commissioned musical score from In The Nursery, a Sheffield-based musical project, which blends electronica with classical arrangements and orchestral overtones.

The national touring programme Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon is available for UK cinema hire from bfi Distribution. For more information contact Film distribution or telephone 020 7957 8935.