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Many early film production companies and cinema owners made local 'topical' films or newsreels of events and local scenes in the first few decades of the twentieth century. This film of the start of the Quorn Hunt in 1912 represents one surviving example of such a film in the Media Archive for Central England collection. These films often featured sporting events and other crowd-drawing events and were designed to be shown a few days later in the local picture house to draw in audiences to see themselves on screen. This film was made at Kirby Gate near the village of Quorn in Leicestershire, and recorded the gathering of the hunting party. The hunt featured in this film is referred to in the private diaries of Captain Forrester, and also in the Melton Mowbray Times in an article named "Hunting Begins Opening of the Leicestershire Season The Quorn at Kirby Gate" in the course of which the following is written: "The scene in the spacious paddock in front of Mr. Astill's residence was a gay and animated one, and the staff of cinematograph operators and photographers found plenty of scope for obtaining interesting scenes." MACE holds a selection of other local news films which were found alongside this one in the local cinema in Melton Mowbray.
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