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20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | movie | 1900 | Official Featurette
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This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the be | dG1fU3dLSzBVekpwcTg
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This was also filmed as part of the Lancashire Wakes films in association with Captain Tom
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Payne, a showman based in Ashton, and it was shown, we believe, at Hollywood Wakes in July
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1901.
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This film shows the industrial importance of the factories to local Lancashire cotton
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and woolen communities.
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Over 20,000 employees were supposedly working for Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works.
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At the top right of the screen, Ralph Pringle in the top hat and the most smartly dressed
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of the people and a cigarette in mouth can be seen descending through the crowds, walking
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towards the camera and actually choreographing again the movement of people in front of the
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camera.
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When this film was advertised in the Oldham area, a note to the showman said that local
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pictures are the keynote of all animated picture shows in the district this week.
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The films were actually commissioned the week before the annual wakes, so the workers would
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often work a double shift in order to get the week off for the wakes weeks.
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Ralph Pringle at this time was actually working in partnership with A.D.
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Thomas, but by January 1901 had formed his own company.
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When the Thomas Edison Animated Photo Company came to Newcastle in November 1900, two of
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the most consummate showmen working for A.D.
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Thomas were actually filming on behalf of the Thomas Edison Animated Photo Company.
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The marketing attraction of this film was apparent as Thomas and Pringle advertised
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this film as over 20,000 faces appearing in three minutes.
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Local newspaper reports and showman papers at the time always used people's reaction
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to the camera as part of the advertising policy with comments of "Oi Bill, that's me" or
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"Did you see yourself last night on the screen?"
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into a popular aspect of the advertising campaign.
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