"Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon" to be screened March 2, 2012

Silent film of recently rediscovered footage from the earliest days of filmmaking

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Still from "Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon"

ALBANY, NY (02/17/2012)(readMedia)-- "Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon" (United Kingdom, 2009, 85 minutes, b/w, silent with musical soundtrack, directed by Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon) will be shown on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.

Set to a modern soundtrack, this compilation of recently rediscovered footage from the earliest days of filmmaking (1900–1913) provides an unparalleled historical perspective of everyday life in the years before World War I. Mesmerizing scenes of trolley cars and crowded streets, soccer matches, temperance parades, throngs of workers leaving the factory, and a myriad of simple pleasures offer, in the words of Dave Kehr of the New York Times, "An amazingly clear window into a horse-drawn society...a unique, hypnotically involving film."

Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon founded the firm of Mitchell & Kenyon in 1897. The company was one of the largest film producers in the United Kingdom in the 1900s.

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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