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===Topicals=== [[File:0794 Glasgow Trams c1902.theora.ogv|thumb|[[Glasgow Corporation Tramways|Glasgow trams]], filmed by the Mitchell & Kenyon film company in 1901 or 1902<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/database/record.php?usi=007-000-000-133-C |title=Glasgow Trams c1902 β Phantom rides on trams around the city |work=Scotland on Screen |accessdate=26 April 2012 |publisher=Creative Scotland, National Library of Scotland and Education Scotland}}</ref>]] As well as workers streaming out of factory gates, Mitchell & Kenyon filmed street scenes, parades, marches, walking out on Sunday and the fairgrounds. Charmingly, as the crowds pass by there are usually a few who come up and stare or wave at the camera, in a way that nowadays annoys news presenters. The street scenes are busy with pedestrians wandering across in front of the slow horse-drawn carts and trams, some horse-drawn as well as the new electric trams, and Mitchell & Kenyon added variety by filming from moving trams. Bicycles abound, and they also showed the novel rarity, a motor car. Warships and [[steamboat]]s are shown, and at the [[Liverpool]] docks emigrants are shown boarding ships such as the [[Cunard Steamship Lines|Cunarder]] {{RMS|Saxonia|1899|6}} bound for [[Boston]], the films having been developed on the same day for relatives to see that night. Workers now had one week's holiday each year, albeit unpaid, and films were made in the thriving holiday resorts including [[Blackpool]] and [[Morecambe Bay]]. Leisure activities shown include boating on rivers, promenading in pleasure gardens and rolling Easter eggs. The parades and processions include carnivals with participants blacking up and doing '[[golliwog]]' dance routines, and men dressed as both Dutch men and women doing a clog dance. Others show religious processions, carnival processions, charity parades and marches, and [[Temperance movement|Temperance]] parades featuring their children's section, ''The Band of Hope''. Military marches and parades were featured, as well as marches by the [[Boys' Brigade]] and the Church Lads' Brigade.
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