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The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon (2005)
Fascinating Mini-Series.
Watching this documentary mini-series is unlike watching any other documentary series. This is because every single person in the long-lost black and white reels of film presented to us is dead.
If someone had gone out with a camera and filmed the same footage today, we'd be bored stiff. But it's impossible to view "Lost World..." without amazement. The people smile, wave, feel uncomfortable at the intrusion, and feel delighted by the novelty of the static movie camera being handcranked in the street. They're waving at us and making direct eye contact for a prolonged period of time; a direct invitation to contemplate our own mortality.
Also of interest is the quaint story of how over 800 reels of preserved celluloid short films (actualities) were found by chance in the basement of a Blackburn shop in the mid-1990s.
Well worth checking out. A landmark series.