Details

Subject(s)

• School children—England—Blackburn [Browse]
• Church schools—England—Blackburn [Browse]

Filmmaker

• Kenyon, James, 1850-1925 [Browse]
• Mitchell, Sagar, 1866-1952 [Browse]

Production company

• Mitchell and Kenyon [Browse]

Publisher

• British Film Institute [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Actualities (Motion pictures) [Browse]

Summary note

While the younger children in this lively film are vigilantly corralled by their schoolmistresses, the older boys get special dispensation to react freely to Mitchell & Kenyon's cameras. As so often in these films, the action is partly staged. The schoolchildren's neat and healthy appearance is in contrast to the often visible poverty of the workers in many of the filmmakers' factory films. Schoolchildren were a popular subject for Mitchell and Kenyon, who knew that their appearance in the films would encourage family members and friends to attend the local screenings.

Notes

Title from resource description page (viewed July 17, 2018).

Language note

Silent.

Other title(s)

• Schoolchildren at St. Ignatius School, Preston
• Schoolchildren at St. Ignatius School, Blackburn (1904)

OCLC

1052763805

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