Mitchell and Kenyon Gala Launch
Friday 14th January at 7:00pm
King George's Hall
Northgate, Blackburn, Lancashire, England
For around 70 years, 800 rolls of nitrate film sat in sealed barrels in the basement of a shop. Now miraculously rediscovered and undergoing restoration, this amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the Twentieth Century is the most exciting film discovery of recent times and promises to radically transform British film history.
 Mitchell and Kenyon was a late Victorian and Edwardian film company mainly making non-fiction films commisioned by travelling showmenfor screening at local venues across the British Isles. Recently discovered by Peter Worden, the collection is being preserved by the British Film Institute.
The British Film Institute and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council invite you to a Gala screening for:
Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film
This event will mark the launch of the bfi's national cinema tour of the films, book publication and DVD releases - all of which are supported by a superb 3 part BBC television documentary series to be screened on terrestrial TV days after the Gala Launch.
Tickets to the event are limited, but cost only £7.00 each and are available from the box office at King George's Hall. The Box Office is in the Ticket Shop, Northgate, Blackburn. It is open for the purchase and collection of tickets at the following times:
9am-5pm Mon-Thurs
9am-6pm Friday
10am-4pm Saturday
On performance days the Box Office remains open until end of the first interval. If a performance day is a Sunday, Box Office is open for 2 hours prior to the show.
Tickets may be booked by phone at the Blackburn box office: 01254 582582 or via Tickmaster: 08706063409 (24hr subject to booking fee).
Tickets are also available on the web via Ticketmaster (ticketmaster adds a booking fee to any tickets purchased).
For more information about Mitchell and Kenyon view the bfi website at
http://www.bfi.org.uk/collections/mk/
or visit the National Fairground Archive website at Sheffield University:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/nfa/mitchell_and_kenyon/index.php
See below for some screen stills from the films which have been preserved...
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