Some of the earliest moving footage of Blackburn Rovers, filmed by pioneering local film-makers Mitchell And Kenyon over a hundred years ago, is being screened in Manchester on June 7.
The restored film will be shown at the Cornerhouse cinema alongside similar footage of other north west teams - Burnley, Bury, Manchester United, Everton and Liverpool - together with an international game in Manchester.
800 of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon's unique films, which show ordinary people at work and play around the turn of the 20th Century, were left untouched for 80 years and found by chance by historian Peter Worden.
The British Film Institute is currently restoring the films, some of which were screened in a three-part BBC series last year called Electric Edwardians.
The Cornerhouse screening, part of the cinema's football season, will be introduced by the collection's curator Vanessa Toulmin and Dave Russell, football expert from the University of Central Lancashire.
Tickets for the 110-minute show, which starts at 6.25pm, are £6.50 / £5.
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