Laborers in Victorian England (1901)

All right, the calibrations on my Time Machine are complete...1939 World's Fair or BUST-
(puts out several small fires)
Sigh. Bust it is-oh well, let's unpack the picnic basket and see where and when we landed...

The years of 1900-1901 were the literal birth of film technology. A few short years previously (1895) the Lumiere Brothers had begun the first forays into the medium in 45-55 second bursts of celluloid. Early Adopters Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon took one look at the budding technology and decided to spend the next few decades shooting documentaries. This short feature, just shy of six minutes, shows the teams of Working Poor leaving their businesses and heading home. The early camera technology was crude and immobile in 1901, lending itself to stationary shots primarily-though the Mitchell and Kenyon team do manage to achieve what was possibly the very first Tracking Shot with a custom-built swivel mount attachment. A few short years ahead would result in far more mobility...in addition, the very concept of 'moving pictures' was bleeding-edge technology in 1901, and several of the filmed subjects aren't quite sure what to make of the device-others-such as the children mugging for the camera, a sandwich-board man getting free advertising (likely the very first filmed Ad in history!) and the two lads putting on a sparring match-seem to know exactly what this new medium was for! Shooting locations include Pendlebury Colliery, Alfred Butterworth and Sons of Hollinwood and Parkgate Iron and Steel in Rotherham. ...

These bits of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection remained archived in an adequate state of preservation-until found by the incomparable team of Denis Shiryaev and Guy Jones, who corrected speed and aspect ratio, reformatted for error-correction and added glorious color and an 'effects' soundtrack, releasing the improved product back into the Wild for our enjoyment!

So while re-calibrating my Chronal Oscillator yet again I raise a mug of French Roast to Denis Shiryaev, Guy Jones and media restorers everywhere...Colorized, Soundtrack.