Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10727 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-01-31
• Rating: Exempt
• Formats: Black & White, Colour, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 176 minutes

Synopsis
Footage discovered and restored by the British Film Institute. Between 1900-1913, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed the country filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. Discovered some seventy years later, the film boasts a world exclusive: the first ever film footage of Manchester United.

Customer Reviews

Excellent, moving images from a bygone era
"Moving" as in "touching" of course. This is a real treasure indeed and every UK household should have one of these. When I watched the series on BBC2 I was amazed at how exciting these images look to the modern eye. You are watching real people who are in fact real ghosts and you are, without realising it, looking for someone you know in there. A really moving experience. If you haven't bought that one yet, do so now as this is a thing of unsurpassed beauty. Don't forget to look out for the amazing restoration work by the BFI. I hope the BBC or the BFI release a DVD of the original, uninterrupted material at some point.

TOTALLY SPELLBINDING!!! 99 STARS
I'm amazed there aren't hundreds of reviews for this totally absorbing DVD. We, or I at least have tended to think of these times in a somewhat two-dimensional frame, chiefly evoked by those stern faced poses photographs of frowning moustachioed men and their anaemic looking spouses staring into the 'light-boxes' Yet here we have this mesmerizing pre-documentary-documentary of real people doing real things! Alas It's 'stars' are all long dead now...even the babies and toddlers have returned to the dust, their world is no more, yet now, so many generations later we can watch them go about there business, spilling out of the factories, shopping, working & playing [the panning shots taken from the trams are utterly superb, even by today's standards!] in a world a thousand worlds away from ours. This is *before* TV & Radio, before WWI and the Titanic. Such innocence captured for all to see. Everybody should see this moving DVD. This is not somebody's biased account of "the way we lived" this is *real* history...the peoples history.

Good but Electric Edwardians is miles better
This series had a real purpose i.e to introduce people to the world of Mitchell and Kenyon. The silly slapstick acted interludes were very irritating and so was the cooing Cruickshank .

A much wiser buy is the BFI edition " Electric Edwardians " - far more footage that is allowed to speak for itself with an illuminating interview with Dr Vanessa Toulmin of the National Fairground Archive , who was the historical consultant to this series and whose painstaking research has allowed us to know what M & K were filming , where and when .