The Lost World Of Mitchell And Kenyon : Complete BBC Series [2004] [DVD]

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Customer reviews

review by: Tie date: 2009-02-04 rating:
The Lost World of Mitchell And Kenyon
I had viewed the series on BBC and I was looking for a dvd of the series when I saw it advertised on Amazon, I was delighted to receive this plus a second copy which I will give to my son. I am delighted with the quality and the service I received from Amazon.

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review by: Graham date: 2007-11-29 rating:
Brilliant
Can't fault these films, as a piece of social history. BTW, played this as a ' backdrop ' at a 100th Birthday Party recently it was fantastic..

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review by: date: 2007-03-07 rating:
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 . br / br /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 .

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review by: date: 2005-07-27 rating:
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.


review by: date: 2005-03-08 rating:
Fascinating infuriating
This documentary is in equal parts fascinating and infuriating. Fascinating for the richness of Mitchell Kenyon's films, the remarkable quality of the images and the often startling content. But infuriating for the way the producers have chosen to present this material. The approach taken fragments the material and distances the viewer, too often reducing the images to the status of stock footage illustrating an often trite, potted social history lesson, with Dan Cruickshank's breathless (and seemingly interminable) narration an added layer of distraction. Worth buying for the wonder of Mitchell Kenyon's images ... but it leaves you hoping desperately that the BFI will soon release an edition of these films without the imposed documentary baggage.

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