A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift. | dG1fZHVzcFp6dnJJS28
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00:00 Film for the Hollywood Wakes in Oldham in association with Captain Payne Cinematograph
00:12 Company. This is very typical of the Factorygate films filmed in the Lancashire, Heartland
00:19 and the Cotton Factories. It would have been shown in July 1901 for use on the Fairground
00:28 Bioscape Show. The children seen in front of the camera would have been child workers.
00:35 The smaller ones are obviously taking their father's or their mother's lunch to work and
00:40 can be seen holding the food and standing in front of the camera. All the workforce
00:55 can be seen wearing clogs. And now we have one of the first stars of the Michelin Canyon
01:00 films responding with his impish grin to the camera. Unlike other films made by Lumiere
01:12 and Edison, the operators actually encourage this kind of behaviour in front of the camera
01:17 and show the vitality and physicality of the audience responding to being filmed. The operators
01:28 are now organising some kind of procession in front of the camera, however our two urchins
01:33 in the middle frame refuse to respond.
01:35 (classical music)
01:38 [music]