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The 'world treasure' cache of Edwardian film found in a shop basement

Melvyn Bragg tells how the discovery of film stock in a Blackburn basement in 1994 made historians' jaws drop. Hundreds of rolls of film, shot by Mitchell and Kenyon, showed the social history of Edwardian Britain as never seen before.

The history of British film was redefined by these 1.5 million frames, bestowed 'world treasure' status by the United Nations.

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