Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901 Film) -- Full Movie

A black miner makes an intriguing addition to an already captivating film of coal workers up from their pit.

Showman Albert Sedgwick, conspicuously raffish in homburg and moustache, bestrides and controls this film. Sedgwick has 'planted' the poster board advertising the show in which it's to be screened - as well as, probably, the Afro-Caribbean man whose presence in Edwardian Lancashire so surprises us. And he is choreographing, right before our eyes, the procession of colliers for the camera -- BFI