The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon
OK Brits. If you get the chance watch BBC2 at 9pm tonight (Friday 21st January) there's an interesting documentary on entitled "The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon"
I think I missed the first one last week, but there's tonight's episode and another next week.
It's about the recently discovered works of the film pioneers Sagar Mitchell & John Kenyon - quite a few hundred of their short films were found stashed in drums in the basement of a derelict shop in Blackburn, Lancashire in 2002. There's about 26 hours of film and it has been restored by the BFI (Britsh Film Institute) and the BBC.
The 100 year old films illustrate late Victorian/Early Edwardian Britain and show, of all things, the first footage of Manchester United in action (I bet everyone is standing up ;) and other moving images of pre-WW1 Britain.
There's more info about the programs over at the beeb and also the BBC's original report of the story back in 2002.
Blue Skies thinking @ 1/21/2005 01:21:00 AM
13 Comments:
At Fri Jan 21, 02:41:00 AM,
rebekah said…
sometimes i wish i had bbc or the channels you guys get because my dear friend sef takes great delight in telling me when morrissey is appearing on your great british television channels. and then i get all jealous and then all i want to do is eat more chocolate to make me feel better. cos all i've got to get morrissey on my television is my dvds. damn you people and your cool tv.
At Fri Jan 21, 05:26:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
yay, thx for reminding me about this i forgot about it. i didn't even realise that there were films that old!
they had more style back then, suits on all the time, even when working, or beating the living daylights out of someone, dancing or just doing nothing :)
its nice seeing this kinda stuff, makes a change from most of the other shite on, even bbc suffers from the hell that reality programs can be.
whee, knowing me after watching this i'll be wanting a monocle, a old pocket watch and a walking stick to chase kids off and pretend stuff was better back in the old days and tell people that In my days we didn't have... (insert anything invented after 1930)
At Fri Jan 21, 01:33:00 PM,
rebekah said…
:O a monocle! that would be fantastic. i love old things. and old film. silents are great ...
uhhhh i didnt really have anything to say.
except now i want a monocle too.
At Fri Jan 21, 05:57:00 PM,
Lever said…
Rebekah, you're right; there has been rather a lot of Morrissey on TV these last few months. Even some old Smiths gigs with his hearing aid and a bush stuck down the back of his pants. Our TV is rather good isn't it?
As for the monocle... make sure it goes with green...
"She knows so much about these things..."
Hey Anon: they did wear suits for everything didn't they? Even down pit! Just reminds of Monty Python for some reason... LOL
Imagine that, a monoc;e, a pocket watch and a walking stick... "Please sir, what time is it sir?"
"Time for a damn good thrashing you scallywag!"
At Sat Jan 22, 08:38:00 AM,
Brom said…
I saw that last week but missed the start and the end so I didn't realise what I was watching. Missed this weeks, too busy buying wood, but thats another story ;-)
Cheers for enlightening us Lever.
At Sat Jan 22, 09:43:00 AM,
Lever said…
Brom-man, that program was a nice little snapshot of days gone by...
I'd love to see more of the films, there was a lot of movies of holidays in Blackpool and moreover, Morecambe which I know quite well, so would be geeky cool just to have a good study of them and check out the frontage... that's the seafront BTW :)
One of the real gems of info to come out of that program was about the 1902 Sheffield Utd goalkeeper, Fatty Foulkes. He started with the team at 12 stone and, added on the pounds with the continued success of the team. The footage showed him at something like 24 stone and that's where the classic football chant
"Who ate all the pies?" came from...
So there you have it :)
And for our International guests, oblivious to the details of this fine song, the full chant goes...
"Who ate all the pies,
Who ate all the pies,
YOU FAT BASTARD,
YOU FAT BASTARD,
You ate all the pies."
Class dismissed.
At Sat Jan 22, 11:48:00 AM,
pine-cones said…
Thanks for explaining what those cryptic programme trailers were about! The "Fatty Foulkes" section was ace.
On a side-note, I happened to be wondering when its' called "BBC", and when it's "The BBC"? Does anyone care to tell me? Or is it an error to even care?
At Sat Jan 22, 02:22:00 PM,
Lever said…
LOL@pepper - BBC vs The BBC... I dunno, may an English Language grad could point us in the right direction regarding that one, pepper.
But what about "The Beeb" and the more obscure references to "Auntie"... that's the one that interests me... why is the BBC called Auntie?
At Mon Jan 24, 10:04:00 AM,
Oliver said…
Not too sure about the Anutie thing, but I can add a little light to the Boob thing...
Basically, the "BBC" is a non-profit organisation. It isn't allowed to make any money.
"The Beeb" is the money making wing of the BBC.
It's all red tape, and probabally a little more complicated than I'm making out, but that's basically it...
EDIT:
Just asked my old man (Used to work in the industry)...
He basically said that the BBC was refewrred to as Auntie (He thinks) because there were so many people dependant on it. It was a kind of paternal thing I think...
The BBC "Family" used to refer to the coproration as "Auntie" basically because it was all a kind of big family...
I'm not 100% sure if that is right, but I'll trust my old man on this one I think...
At Mon Jan 24, 11:09:00 AM,
Lever said…
ROFL "ee" and "oo" aren't anywhere close on the keyboard, dude, except maybe on a phone keypad...?
Cheers for that, SE, makes sense that does :D So Auntie is a family connotation - cool. The BBC does a good job and should be kept that way - not bad at all what it offers for GBP120 a year - Sky is GBP492 PA and there's a lot more drivel on that selection of channels...
At Mon Jan 24, 12:44:00 PM,
Oliver said…
Sorry about that... I didn't intent to lower the tone of your post...
I've clearly got boobs on the mind (As apposed to my head)... :D
At Mon Jan 24, 12:59:00 PM,
Lever said…
LOL, no worries dude, it just made me chuckle :D It was probably the everso slightly misleading title of the binoculars post...
At Sun Mar 13, 01:33:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Beeb say it...BeeB ee Cee, get it? It was from the Goon Show. Maybe Auntie BBC was also. It was because it was looked on as old-fashioned and genteel and something inoffensive, and something you wouldn't want to offend. The ABC in Australia is referred to as Auntie for the same reason.
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