‘We take them and make them’: Mitchell and Kenyon and the Travelling Exhibition Showmen

The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 59-68

  Toulmin, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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References (30)

1. Mitchell and Kenyon, The Showman’s Year Book, edited by Reverend Thomas Horne (Manchester: UKSVDPA, 1900).
2. Nicholas Hiley '“At the Picture Palace”: The British Cinema Audience, 1895-1920', in John Fullerton (ed.), Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema (London: John Libbey, 1998), pp. 96-106
3. ‘Early Cinema Audiences’, Iris: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound, no. 11 (Summer 1990).
4. Vanessa Toulmin, ‘Telling the Tale: The History of the Fairground Bioscope Shows and the Showmen Who Operated Them’, Film History, vol. 6, no. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 219-37
5. Mervyn Heard, '“Come in please, Come out Pleased”: The Development of British Fairground Bioscope Presentation and Performance’, in Linda Fitzsimmons and Sarah Street (eds), Moving Performance: British Stage and Screen, 1890s-1920s (Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 2000), pp. 101-11.
6. Aldo Bernardini, Cinema italiano delle origini: gli ambulanti (Urdine: Cineteca del Friuli, 2001).
7. Ivo Blom, Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003).
8. Charles Musser and Carol Nelson, High-Class Moving Pictures: Lyman H.Howe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibition, 188-1920 (Princeton, NJ: University of Princeton Press, 1991).
9. Tony Fletcher, ‘The London County Council and the Cinematograph, 1896-1900', Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image before 1914, vol. 1, no. 2 (2001), pp. 69-83.
10. Jon Burrows Penny Pleasures: Film Exhibition in London during the Nickelodeon Era, 1906-1914', Film History, vol. 16, no. 1 (2004), pp. 60-91.
11. Proceedings of the British Cinematography Society, no. 21 (1933), p. 4.
12. Deac Rossell, ‘A Slippery Job: Travelling Exhibitors in Early Cinema’, in Simon Popple and Vanessa Toulmin (eds), Visual Delights. Essays. On the Popular and Projected Image in the 19th Century (Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 2000), pp. 50-60 (51).
13. John A. Prestwich, ‘How to Give a Good Cinematograph Show’, The Showman, 6 September 1901, p. 571.
14. Vanessa Toulmin, Patrick Russell and Tim Neal, ‘The Mitchell and Kenyon Collection: Rewriting Film History’, The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, vol. 3, no. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 1-18.
15. G. J Mellors, The Northern Music Halls (Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1970) and for information on Tom Barrasford’s music halls, see http://pages.britishlibrary.net/mikepymm/barrasfo.htm
16. M&K 550-3: Leeds Athletic and Cycling Club (1902).
17. M&K 558-62, 564, 808: Leeds Lifeboat Procession and Sports at Roundhay on the Viagraph (1902).
18. Gazette & News For Blackpool, Fleetwood, Lytham, St Annes, and Flyde District, 26 May 1903.
19. Lancaster Guardian, 12 April 1902, p. 1
20. Geoff Mellor, Movie Makers and Picture Palaces (Bradford: Bradford Libraries, 1996).
21. Bruce Peter, 100 Years of Glasgow’s Amazing Cinemas (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990).
22. Brendon Thomas, The Last Picture Shows: Edinburgh. Ninety Years of Cinema Entertainment in Scotland’s Capital City (Edinburgh: Moorfoot Publishing, 1984).
23. Stanley Chadwick, The Mighty Screen: The Rise of the Cinema in Huddersfield (Huddersfield: Venture Press, 1953).
24. Charles Anderson, A City and Its Cinemas (Bristol: Redcliffe, 1983).
25. Vanessa Toulmin, ‘An Early Crime Film Rediscovered: Mitchell and Kenyon’s Arrest of Goudie (1901)', Film History, vol. 16, no. 1 (2004), pp. 37-53.
26. Vanessa Toulmin, "‘Local Films for Local People”: Travelling Showmen and the Commissioning of Local Films in Great Britain, 1900-1902', Film History, vol. 13, no. 2 (2001), pp. 118-37.
27. Newcastle upon Tyne Evening Chronicle, 4 March 1901, p. 1.
28. Huddersfield Examiner, 3 November 1900, p. 5.
29. Sunderland Daily Echo, 12 January 1907, p. 1.
30. John H. Bird, Cinema Parade: Fifty Years of Film Shows (Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Limited, 1947), pp. 21-2.