Morecambe Church Lads' Brigade at Drill (1901)

Directed by

James Kenyon

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short film shows a group of young men in uniform doing parade drills on a summer day in 1901. It captures their marching and formations in a single take.

historicalobservationalquietearnestnostalgicstraightforwardbrisk

What happens

Morecambe Church Lads' Brigade at Drill is a 1901 British short silent documentary film, directed by James Kenyon and Sagar Mitchell, showing the parade drill of the Morecambe Church Lads' Brigade on 3 July 1901. The film, which was premiered at the Winter Gardens in Morecambe on the same day it was filmed, was popular and went on to be shown at other venues in the North of England. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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