http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Mitchell+and+Kenyon IrishCentral Mitchell and Kenyon en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/century-old-irish-films-go-from-time-capsule-to-youtube-118836789.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/century-old-irish-films-go-from-time-capsule-to-youtube-118836789.html Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:50:12 PDT There’s a bit of YouTube to the 100-year-old film clips that emerged back in 1995 from barrels in English basement They’re short, unscripted, a little rough around the edges, the stars were regular people and, in what would pass for 4G speed in 1900, they would be shot in the afternoon and screened that same evening But unlike digital media, they weren’t supposed to live forever, given the unstable and highly flammable nature of the nitrate film stock Miraculously, about 800 of these slice-of-life films hibernated safely through most of the 20th century in barrels in the cellar of the Mitchell & Kenyon film company, among them several shot in Ireland READ MORE ]]>