Documentary 4min

Congregation Leaving Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin (1902)

Dublin churchgoers after mass in 1902.
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Facts
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Titles
(Alternative) Mitchell and Kenyon 730 Gardner St Jesuits Church, Dublin
(Alternative) Mitchell and Kenyon 730 Congregation Leaving Jesuit Church of St Francis Xavier, Dub Lin
Production
Distribution
(DVD, UK, 2007) British Film Institute
Categories
Actuality Film Black and White Church Congregation Documentary Dublin Jesuit People Short Silent Film St. Francis Xavier
Description

Shot in December 1902, this film shows a variety of Dublin residents in their Sunday best and was intended to attract people from the crowd to the cinematograph show to see themselves on screen. In the background, a poster advertises a sermon by the Very Rev. J. Conmee. The same John Conmee was rector at the Jesuit boarding school attended by the young James Joyce, and features in Joyce's Ulysses.

Source: BFI

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Cast
Unavailbale.
Crew
Sagar Mitchell - Producer
James Kenyon - Producer
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A crowd of people

This is another one of Mitchell & Kenyon crowd shots in order to attract the people to the movies in order to see themselves. It is pretty close up, but because you can make up the text in the back in the beginning in order to pinpoint it to history it's better than simply faces. Still, these shots are not the pinnacle of early cinema.