Churchgoers mill around St Mary's elegant fluted columns in this neatly composed and strikingly well preserved film, which presents us with a good cross-section of a prosperous early 20th Century Cork community. The slow camera pan captures a row of liveried servants in carriages waiting in line. The film was commissioned by showman George Green and shown at the Cork Exhibition in May 1902.

St Mary's Dominican church (opened in 1839) is located at Cork's Pope's Quay, beside the river Lee.

Source: BFI

Congregation emerging from St Mary's Church, Cork, and standing around on steps. Sunny weather. (Synopsis) (00.00) main (replacement) title. (00.07) pan l-r: crowd (presumably having emerged from church) stand on church steps many of them looking at the camera: they range from women in shawls, men and boys in rough working suits and caps to more affluent looking worshipers, the ladies in dresses and bonnets and men in suits and bowler hats - this group tend not to hang about on steps (!) but walk away out of shot: two pony and trap vehicles with drivers wait on road infront of church (to 01.35) (Shotlist)

Source: BFI