1998
The Forgotten Cinema
British Film Before 1930
25th – 26th April, 1998
held at Phoenix Arts, Leicester
FEATURES
Comradeship [Comrades in Arms] (Stoll Film Company, GB 1919)
Director: Maurice Elvey
The Ring (British International Pictures, GB 1927)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (Welsh-Pearson, GB 1922)
Director: George Pearson
SHORTS
Attack on a Chinese Mission – Bluejackets to the Rescue (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1900)
Dir: James Williamson
Blood and Bosh (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Hay Plumb
Cast: Jack Hulcup, Chrissie White, Hay Plumb, Alma Taylor
A Breach of Promise Case (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1908)
C.O.D. – A Mellow Drama (GB 1929)
Dir: Lloyd T. Richards, Desmond Dickinson, Gerald Gibbs, Harcourt Templeman
The Countryman and the Cinematograph (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1901)
Dir: R. W. Paul
Crossing the Great Sagrada (GB 1924)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
The Dog Outwits the Kidnappers (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1908)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
Fire! (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1901)
Dir: James Williamson
Jack Spratt’s Parrot Gets His Own Back (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Toby Cooper
Kate Purloins The Wedding Presents [from 'Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate' series] (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1912)
Dir: Charles Raymond
Lieutenant Lily and the Splodge of Opium (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Hay Plumb
The Man to Beat Jack Johnson (Tyler Film Company, GB 1910)
The Man Who Came Back (Regent Pictures, GB c.1915)
Pimple’s Battle of Waterloo (Phoenix Film Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Fred Evans
Rescued by Rover (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1905)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil M. Hepworth
Richard III (Co-Operative Cinematograph Company, GB 1911)
Dir: Frank R. Benson
The Unclean World (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1903)
Dir: Percy Stow
Which Switch ['Q-riosities, No. 12'] (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1922)
Dir: Gaton Quiribet
A Wild Goose Chase (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1908)
Dir: Percy Stow
EXTRACTS (Features)
The Lure of Drink (Barker Motion Photography, GB 1915)
Dir: A. E. Coleby
1999
The 2nd British Silent Cinema Weekend
British Comedy Before 1930
16th – 18th April, 1999
FEATURES
The Manxman (British International Pictures, GB 1929)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Tons of Money (Walls and Henson Films, GB 1924)
Director: Frank Hall Crane
Would You Believe It! (Nettlefold Films, GB 1929)
Director: Walter Forde
SHORTS
Alice in Wonderland (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1903)
Dir: Percy Stow and Cecil M. Hepworth
As Seen Through the Telescope (G. A. Smith, GB 1900)
Dir: G. A. Smith
C.O.D. – A Mellow Drama (, GB 1929)
Dir: Lloyd T. Richards, Desmond Dickinson, Gerald Gibbs, Harcourt Templeman
Daddy’s Little Did’ums and the New Baby (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1911)
Dir: Wilfred Noy
Daisy Doodad’s Dial (Turner Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Florence Turner, To Powers
The Electric Shock (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1904)
Dir: Alf Collins
An Engagement of Convenience (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1914)
Express Delivery (Cricks, GB 1913)
Dir: Edwin J. Collins
Finding His Counterpart (Bamforth Company, GB c.1913)
Hanging Out the Clothes; or, Master, Mistress and Maid (G. A. Smith, GB 1898)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Let Me Dream Again (G. A. Smith, GB 1900)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Love and the Varsity (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Percy Stow
The Man to Beat Jack Johnson (Tyler Film Company, GB 1910)
Mary Jane’s Mishap; or, Don’t Fool with the Paraffin (G. A. Smith, GB 1903)
Max at the Music Hall ( Fr )
The Miller and the Sweep (G. A. Smith, GB 1897)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Milling the Militants; A Comic Absurdity (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Percy Stow
The Missing Legacy; or, The Story of a Brown Hat (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1906)
Dir: Alf Collins
The Mystic Mat (J. H. Martin, GB 1913)
Dir: Dave Aylott
Night Duty (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1904)
Dir: Alf Collins
A Night in the Show (The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, US 1915)
Dir: Charles Chaplin
Oh! That Cat (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1907)
Dir: Alf Collins (?)
Only Me (Educational Films Corporation, US 1929)
Dir: Henry W. George
Our New Errand Boy (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1905)
Dir: James Williamson
Pimple Has One (Piccadilly, GB 1915)
Dir: Fred Evans and Joe Evans
Pimple in the Whip (Piccadilly, GB 1917)
Dir: Fred Evans and Joe Evans
The Plum Pudding Stakes [Weary Willy and Tired Tim] (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1911)
Dir: H. O. Martinek
The Rollicking Rajah (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1913)
Sawney Sam’s Dilemma (Barker Motion Photogrpahy, GB 1914)
Stop Thief! (William Kinematograph Company, GB 1901)
Dir: James Williamson
The Tale of a Coat (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1905)
Dir: Alf Collins
[Three Maiden Ladies] Chased by a Bull (, GB c.1910)
Tilly’s Party (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1911)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
Tubby’s Rest Cure (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Frank Wilson
Two-Chinned Chow (Atlas Biocraft, GB 1923)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Walter Makes a Movie (British Comedies, GB 1922)
Dir: Tom Seymour and Walter Forde
When Extremes Meet (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1905)
Dir: Alf Collins
Wife the Weaker Vessel (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1915)
Dir: Frank Wilson
EXTRACTS
Alf’s Button (Hepworth Picture Plays, GB 1920)
Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth
The Bump (Minerva Films, GB 1920)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Champagne (British International Pictures, GB 1928)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
East is East (Turner Film Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Henry Edwards
The Farmer’s Wife (British International Pictures, GB 1928)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Gainsborough Pictures, GB 1926)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
The Rat (Gainsborough Pictures, GB 1925)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Squibs (Welsh-Pearson, GB 1921)
Dir: George Pearson
Trilby (London Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Pre-Cinema Pioneer)
2000
The 3rd British Silent Cinema Weekend
Performing British Cinema
(14th – 16th April, 2000)
FEATURES
Fox Farm (George Clark Productions, GB 1922)
Dir: Guy Newell
The Little People (Welsh-Pearson, GB 1926)
Dir: George Pearson
Madame Pompadour (British International Pictures, GB 1927)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
SHORTS
Are We Downhearted? (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB c.1909)
Are You a Lip Reader? (Pathe, GB 1933)
Betty Chester in ‘Pigtail Alley’ (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1926)
Billy Merson in ‘Russian Opera’ (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1926)
Bobby the Boy Scout, or, The Boy Detective (,GB )
Bunkered at Blackpool (Weister Bros., GB c.1913)
By The Side of the Zuyder Zee ['Cinematophone Singing Pictures series No. 108'] (Walturdaw Company, GB 1907)
The Dance of the Sea (GB nk)
The Dog Outwits the Kidnappers (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1908)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
The Dull Razor (, GB )
1st SW London (Putney) Boy Scouts Camp in Camp at Polzeath (GB 1909)
[Herbert Campbell as 'Little Bobby'] (British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, GB c.1899)
I Want to Be Alone with Mary Brown (GB 1928)
Just Keep a Thought for Me (GB nk)
Kitty Mahone (GB 1900)
The Lie (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Frank Wilson
Lightning (GB 1933)
Lord Roberts Hoisting Union Jack at Pretoria (GB )
The Luck of the Red Lion (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1912)
Dir: Hay Plumb
Masques and Grimaces (GB c.1901)
May Moore Duprez: Whilst You Wait (Precision Films, GB 1912)
Mister Moon (Mitchell and Kenyon, GB 1901)
The Night I Fought Jack Johnson (Hepworth Manufacturing Works, GB c.1912)
The Old Chorister (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1904)
Dir: James Williamson
The Plumber and the Lunatics (Walter Tyler Film Company, GB 1908)
The Prince at the Jamboree (GB 1929)
Rally of Birmingham Boy Scouts [Williamson Animated News No. 53] (GB 1909)
Rescued in Mid-Air (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1906)
Dir: Percy Stow
A Second Peep at Mayfair and Montmartre (GB c.1921)
Shakespeare’s Country (GB 1926)
The Sheepstealer (GB 1908)
Dir: William Haggar
The Toreador Song (GB 1909)
[Unidentified Gaumont Chronophone] (GB 1907)
The Waif and the Wizard; or, the Home Made Happy (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1901)
Dir: Walter R. Booth
Washing the Sweep (GB 1898)
Dir: James Williamson
Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone ['Cinematophone Singing Pictures series No. 102'] (Walturdaw Company, GB 1907)
Whisper and I Shall Hear (GB 1913)
Words and Music: No. 2 (GB 1928)
The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terris in a Selection of Their Dances (Topical Film Company, GB 1912)
Wrexham – Wales vs. Ireland, 1906 (GB 1906)
EXTRACTS (from Features)
The Battle of Waterloo (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Charles Weston
Carnival (Alliance Films Corporation, GB 1921)
Dir: Harley Knoles
The Flag Lieutenant (Astra-National, GB 1926)
Dir Maurice Elvey
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ideal Film Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Fred Paul
The Lure of Crooning Water (George Clark Productions, GB 1920)
Dir Arthue Rooke
Masks and Faces (Ideal Film Company, GB 1917)
Dir: Fred Paul
The Passionate Adventure (Gainsborough Pictures, GB 1924)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Tansy (Hepworth Picture Plays, GB 1921)
Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth
Underground (British Instructional Films, GB 1928)
Dir: Anthony Asquith
The Vicar of Wakefield (Ideal Film Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Fred Paul
EXTRACTS (from shorts)
The Antidote (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1927)
Mr. Smith Wakes Up (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1929)
EXTRACTS
Selection of films from the BFIs ‘Silent Shakespeare’ video
‘George Pearson: Pioneer Filmmaker [includes clip from Reveille (1924)], extract from the TV series ‘Yesterday’s Witness’ (1969)
SPECIAL EVENTS
The Cinema and the Goose Fair
The World in 1900
2001
The 4th British Silent Cinema Weekend
Crossing the Pond: the special relationship between Britain and America
(6-8 April, 2001)
FEATURES
Exit Smiling (MGM, US 1926)
Dir: Sam Taylor
The Informer (British International Pictures, GB 1929)
Dir: Arthur Robison
Kipps; The Story of a Simple Soul (Stoll Film Company, GB 1921)
Dir: Harold Shaw
SHORTS
The Amorous Milkman (GB 1904)
Billy Nelson in His Harry Lauder Burlesque ‘Scotland’s Whiskey’ (, GB 1926)
Bonzolino; or, Bonzo Broadcasted ['Bonzo series No. 10'] (New Era, GB 1925)
Sleepless ['Bully Boy series No. 3'] (Neptune Films, GB 1914)
Dir: Lancelot Speed
Bunny at the Derby (Vitaphone Company of America, US 1912)
Dir: Laurence Trimble
The Child Stealers (GB 1904)
A Christmas Carol (London Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
The Favourite for the Jamaica Cup (GB 1913)
Joseph Termini – The Somnolent Melodist (GB 1926)
The Lad From Old Ireland (Kalem Company, US 1910)
Dir: Sidney Olcott
Paul England and Dorothy Boyd’s ‘Knee Deep in Daisies’ (GB 1926)
Peter’s Picture Poems (Kine Komedy Kartoons GB 1918)
Dir: Anson Dyer
The Professor (GB 1903)
A Race for a Kiss (GB 1904)
The Ring and the Rajah (London Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
Rory O’More (Kalem Company, US 1911)
Dir: Sidney Olcott
Somewhere in Wrong ['Stan Laurel Comedies series'] (Standard Cinema Corporation, US 1925)
Dir: Percy Pembroke
The Two Columbines (London Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
Ultus and the Grey Lady (Gaumont, GB 1916)
Dir: George Pearson
The Warning (Majestic Motion Picture Company, US 1914)
Dir: Donald Crisp
Who Said We Can’t Make British Pictures? (Pathe, GB 1926)
EXTRACTS (from Features)
The Clue of the New Pin (British Lion Film Corporation, GB 1929)
Dir: Arthur Meade
Nell Gwynne (British National, GB 1926)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
EXTRACTS (from Shorts)
America’s Answer to the Hun ( US 1918)
Flashes of Action (US c.1919)
Hands Across the Sea (GB 1918)
Ivanhoe (Independent Moving Pictures Film Co., US 1913)
Dir: Herbert Brenon
Ivanhoe (Zenith Film Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Leedham Bantock
2002
The 5th British Silent Cinema Weekend
Scene Stealing: Investigating British Silent Cinema and its Sources
Broadway Nottingham 4th – 8th April, 2002
FEATURES
David Copperfield (Nordisk Film Kompagni, Denmark 1922)
Dir: anders Wilhelm Sandberg
East is East (Turner Film Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Henry Edwards
East Lynne (Barker Motion Photography, GB 1913)
Dir: Bert Haldane
Emerald of the East (British Pacific / British International Pictures, GB 1928)
Dir: Jean de Kuharski
St Peters Church
The Ghost Train (Gainsborough Pictures / Phoebus Film-AG, GB/Germany 1927)
Dir: Geza von Bolvary
Kitty (British International Pictures / Burlington Films, GB 1929)
Dir: Victor Saville
Lady Audley’s Secret (Ideal Film Company, GB 1920)
Dir: Jack Denton
The Man without Desire (Atlas Biocraft, GB 1923)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Tom Brown’s Schooldays (Regal Films, GB 1916)
Dir: Rex Wilson
The Triumph of the Rat (Gainsborough Pictures / Piccadilly Pictures, GB 1926)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Underground (British Instructional Films, GB 1928)
Dir: Anthony Asquith
The Actors Squad (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1927)
Alice in Wonderland (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1903)
Dir: Percy Stow and Cecil M. Hepworth
Ambush (Mitchell and Kenyon, GB 1900)
The Bacon Grabbers (Hal Roach Studios, US 1929)
The Bailiffs (Associated Talking Pictures, GB 1932)
Dir: Frank Cadman
Billy Merson Singing ‘Desdemonia’ (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1927)
The Birth of a Flower ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, GB 1910)
Dir: Percy Smith
The Blacksmith’s Daughter (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1904)
Dir: Alf Collins
Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict (GB 1903)
Dir: R. W. Paul
The Boy and the Convict (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1909)
Dir: Dave Aylott
Brave Children; or, the Young Thief Catchers (Cricks and Martin, GB 1908)
Dir: A. E. Coleby
Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1901)
Dir: Walter R. Booth
Cheese Mites (GB 1903)
Dir: Percy Smith
Christmas Day in the Workhouse (Samuelson Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: George Pearson
David Copperfield (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Thomas Bentley
[Edwardian Folkestone] (GB c.1904)
Exceeding His Duty (GB 1911)
Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth
Footpads (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1896)
Funeral of Lieutenant Dinwoodie (GB nk)
An Interrupted Journey (GB 1905)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
Kate Purloins The Wedding Presents [from 'Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate' series] (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1912)
Dir: Charles Raymond
The Latest News (Warwick Trading Company, GB 1904)
Lewis Casson and Old Vic Company in excepts from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1927)
The Little Match Seller (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1902)
Dir: James Williamson
Love Story of Ann Thomas [The Maid of Cefn Ydfa] (GB 1913)
Dir: William Hagger, Jr
[Man Meets Ragged Boy] (G. A. Smith, GB c.1902)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Matches: An Appeal (GB c1908)
Dir: Arthur Melbourne Cooper
The Medium Exposed; or, A Modern Spiritualistic Seance (Paul’s Antimatograph Works, GB 1906)
Dir: J. H. Martin (?)
Napoleon and the English Sailor (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1908)
Dir: Alf Collins
Nicholas Nickleby (Gaumont Film Company, US 1903)
Dir: Alf Collins
Cast: William Carrington
Oliver Twist (Vitagraph Company of America, US 1909)
Dir: J. Stuart Blackton
Cast: Edith Storey, William Humphrey, Elita Proctor Otis
The Press – Illustrated (GB 1904)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
A Railway Collision (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1900)
Dir: Walter R. Booth
A Reservist, Before the War, and After the War (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1902)
Dir: James Williamson
Robbery (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1897)
Dir: R. W. Paul
Robinson Crusoe (G. A. Smith, GB 1902)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Rothesay Peace Celebrations (GB nk)
Santos Canasi and Jose Lennard in an Exhibition of the New Flat Charleston (De Forest Phonofilms, GB 1927)
Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1901)
Dir: Walter R. Booth
Strength and Agility of Insects ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, GB c.1911)
Dir: Percy Smith
[Tartans of the Scottish Clans] (Natural Colour Kinematograph Company, GB c.1906)
Dir: G. A. Smith
To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, GB c.1909)
Dir: Percy Smith
Tommy Atkins in the Park (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1898)
Dir: R. W. Paul
[Topical Budget - War office (Hall Caine)] (1st December, 1917)
[Unidentified Chronophone Film - Drawing Room] (GB 1906)
Upside Down; or, the Human Flies (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1898)
Water Fleas and Rotifers ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, GB 1903)
Dir: Percy Smith
EXTRACTS (from Features)
Bleak House (Ideal Film Company, GB 1920)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Constance Collier, Berta Gellardi, E. Vivian Reynolds, Norman Page
The Bondman (British and Dominions, GB 1929)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: Frances Cuyler, Norman Kerry, Donald McCardle, Dora Barton
High Treason (Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, GB 1929)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Benita Hume, Jameson Thomas, Humberston Wright, Kiyoshi Takase
Little Dorrit (Progress Film Company, GB 1920/21)
Dir: Sidney Morgan
Cast: Lady Tree, Langhorn Burton, Joan Morgan, Compton Coutts
Lille Dorrit [Little Dorrit] (Nordish Film Kompagni, Denmark 1924)
Dir: anders Wilhelm Sandberg
Cast: Karina Bell, Karen Caspersen, Torben Meyer
Nelson; the Story of a England’s Immortal Naval Hero (International Exclusives, GB 1919)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Donald Calthrop, Malvina Longfellow, Ivy Close, Ernest Thesiger
The Only Way (Herbert Wilcox Productions, GB 1926)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: John Martin Harvey, Madge Stuart, Betty Faire, Ben Webster
Palais de Danse (Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, GB 1928)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Mabel Poulton, John Longden, Robin Irvine, Hilda Moore
The Prodigal Son (Stoll Picture Productions, GB 1923)
Dir: A. E. Coleby
Cast: Stewart Rome, Henry Victor, Edith Bishop, Colette Brettel
Squibs (Welsh-Pearson, GB 1921)
Dir: George Pearson
Cast: Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Annette Benson
Sweeney Todd (Ideal Film Company, GB 1926)
Dir: George Dewhurst
Cast: Moore Marriott, Zoe Palmer, Judd Green, Harry Lorraine
The Vortex (Gainsborough Pictures, GB 1928)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Cast: Ivor Novello, Willette Kershaw, Frances Doble, Alan Hollis
The Wandering Jew (Stoll Picture Productions, GB 1923)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Matheson Lang, Hutin Britton, Malvina Longfellow, Isobel Elsom
The Wonderful Story (Graham-Wilcox Productions, GB 1922)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Cast: Lillian Hall-Davies, Herbert Langley, Olaf Hytten, Bernard Vaughan
EXTRACTS
The Cricket on the Hearth (Biograph Company, US 1909)
Dir: D. W. Griffith
Cast: Owen Moore, Violet Mersereau, Linda Arvindson, Dorothy West
A Daughter of Romany (Edison Photplays, US 1913/14)
Dir: Charles Brabin
The Pickwick Papers (Vitagraph Company of America, US/GB 1913)
Dir: Laurence Trimble
Cast: John Bunny, James Pryor, Sidney Hunt, Fred Hornby
Stanton’s Last Fling (, US 1913)
Dir: Charles M. Seay
A Tale of Two Cities (Vitagraph Company of America, US 1911)
Dir: J. Stuart Blackton and William Humphrey
Cast: Maurice Costello, Florence Turner, John Bunny, Norma Talmadge
EXTRACTS (Others)
Selection of Mitchell and Kenyon films)
SPECIAL EVENTS
Magic Lantern Presentation by Peter Gillies “Gabriel Grub” and “The Old Curiosity Shop”
2003
The 6th British Silent Cinema Weekend
Location, Location, Location
(3 -7 April, 2003)
Broadway Nottingham
Travelogue programmes
1900 Stonehenge – Panorama of the Ancient Druidical Remains
1900 Clifton Suspension Bridge
1904 Scenes On the Cornish Riviera
1907 North Wales, England; Land of Castles and Waterfalls
1909 A Holiday Trip to the Clyde Coast of Scotland
1910 Scenes in Jersey
1910 Shakespeare Land
1921 Canterbury Cathedral (Beauties of British Antiquity)
1921 Cheddar
1921 Up the River With Molly
1922 (Picturing Charles Urban)
1926 Wonderful Wye (Beauties of Britain)
1926 Wonderful Britain Series – Away To the West Colour
1908 Whaling Afloat and Ashore
1909 Trip To the White Sea Fisheries
1910 A Day in the Life of a Coalminer
1912 Scenes in the Scilly Isles
1920 Malvern Hills
1920 Manufacture of Stilton Cheese
1920 Oyster Fishing At Whitstable, England (Actually C.1907)
1922 Duke of York’s Visit To Horrock’s Mills
1930 Lace
1930 Workshop of the World – Birmingham
FEATURES
Owd Bob (1924)
A Couple of Down and Outs (Nlds/GB 1923)
Mist in the Valley (1923)
Tansy (1921)
The Lure of Crooning Water (GB 1920)
A Little Bit of Fluff (GB 1928)
The Vagabond Queen (1929)
South (1919)
The Wrecker (1930)
Boy Woodburn (1930)
Prints from
Manxland and its Beauties (Tyler 1910)
Broken Faith (British and Colonial)
Didums and the Bathing Machine (Clarendon 1911)
Tilly In a Boarding House (Hepworth 1912)
SHORTS
1909 Burnham Beeches
1904 A Day in the Hayfields
1905 Glimpses of Country Life
1907 In the Scottish Highlands
1913 Blackpool High Tide
1919 Aeroplanes
Billy Merson Sings Desdemona
Bill and Coo
Billy Merson In Russian Opera
Soldiers Return
Firemen To the Rescue
Daring Daylight Robbery
It’s Not My Parcel
A Pair of Truants
(1903) Desparate Poaching Affray
The Horsestealer
Motor Pirates
Catching A Burglar
Moonlight Trip On The Nile
Pathe: Down In the Forest – In the Heart of Dartmoor 1930
Along the Tees – 1929
Down the Rheidol Valley – 1929
Lakeland Glimpses – 1930
London’s Lungs
The River
Two Minutes In the Broad-Acred County
The Palace of The Stuarts
Glimpses of York
When Henry I Was King
A Shropshire Gem
In The West Country
Gordon Bennett Motor Race 1903
Early Motor Race C 1905
Motor Climbing Contest At Crystal Palace ‘
Smallest Car
Trojan Car
Hints To Motorists In Safety First By Sf Edge
Old Motor Cars
Ill Fares The Land
1900 Rough Sea
1900 Heroes of Ladysmith Marching Through London
Thames River Scene +1900 Panorama of the Paris Exhibition
Skirmish With the Boers Near Kimberley
First Airship Flight To the Tropcs Topical Budget
Tragic End of R101
Great Airship
At Kitty Hawk, N.C.: The Wright Brothers Made their First Flight 25 Years Ago (1928)
Early Aircraft (C1908)
Bleriot Crosses the Channel In 31′ (1909)
Flying At Rheims (1909)
Blackpool Aviators Meeting (1909)
Ah!… Da Fliegt Ein Aeroplan! (1910)
Early Aeroplane Flight and Wreck (1910)
Aeroplane Gliding (C1910)
Great London To Manchester Aerial Race (1910)
Bournemouth Aviation Meeting: Second Day (1910)
Lieutenant Rose and the Stolen Battleship (1912)
Pre-World War One Aircraft
1901 Panorama of Ealing From A Moving Tram
1920 the Agony of Belfast’
1922 Marconi Mast’
- London By Night (‘Wonderful London’ Series)
Wishaw Co-Op Society Gala Day 1909
Colchester Co-Op Society Jubilee Parade C. 1921
1898 View From An Engine Front – Ilfracombe
EXTRACTS (from Features)
Pipes of Pan
Nothing Else Matters
Testimony
Comin Thro the Rye
Chaplin Out Takes
Mysteries of London
Rogues of London
At the Villa Rose
The First Cameraman In Iceland
Open Road
The Lady Owner
Victorian Cinema 16 Boer War Various
Arrival Of the Boer Generals
2004
7th British Silent Cinema Festival
‘GOODBYE TO ALL THAT’
British Silent Cinema and World War I
15-19 April 2004
Thursday 15 April
Land of Hope and Glory (Harley Knoles, 1927) 89mins
Toby Haggith (Imperial War Museum): The Dead, Battlefield Burials and the Unveiling of War Memorials in Films of the First World War era
Briony Clarke (University of East Anglia) From the Spectacular to the Sacred: Pathe Memorial Pictures and Battlefield Tourism after the First World War.
Peace on the Western Front – A Story of the Battlefields (1930) 33mins
:
IWM short films ‘Join the Army and See the World’
The Military Film as Travelogue (Part 1)
Peter Hallinan (IWM): ‘A Flying Start’
Introduction to the IWM Archive’s Fisher Collection.
Roger Smither (IWM): First World War themes and icons foreshadowing
World War II
Kay Gladstone (IWM): Captain Bromhead’s Film Mission to Russia,
1916-17.
IWM short films: ‘Join the Army and See the World’
The Military Film as Travelogue (Part 2).
Dawn (Herbert Wilcox 1928) 86 mins plus IWM short films including Stand By the Men Who Have Stood By You (Herbert Wilcox, 1917) 5mins. approx. 20mins. Introduced by Jeremy Lewis (Nottingham Evening Post)
Friday 16 April
Tony Fletcher: Prelude, Shrapnel & Fugue (Programme A: Part I and II)
‘Prelude’- The Houndsditch Murders (1911)
The Peril of the Fleet (1912)
From Behind the Glory (1912)
Mayor Kingstoric Call to Armistice (1914)
‘Shrapnel’- Defence of Verdun (1921)
Scottish Women’s Hospital (1917)
Nurse and Martyr (1915)
The Leopard’s Spots (1918)
Mike Hammond: Goodbye to All That or Business As Usual? History &
Memory of the Great War in British Cinema
4th Loyal North- Lancashire Roll of Honour (1915) 2mins
Man Who Came Back (1915) ext. 14 mins
Battle of the Somme (1916) ext. 3mins
Wounded Warriors: Topical Budget
Elaine Burrows: Animation & World War I
Matches Appeal (1899/1918)
Sleepless (Bully Boy No.3) (1914)
Peace & War Pencillings by Harry Furniss (1914)
A Fight to the Finish (Studdy’s War Cartoon) (1915)
‘A Pencil’ and Alick (P F Ritchie, 1915)
John Bulls’ Animated Sketch Book No.4 (1916)
Ever Been Had (1917)
Total running time = 29mins
Claudia Sternberg: of Civilians as Victims, Tailors as Colonels and Comrade
Wives – War-related Feature Films of the Silent Era 1919-1929
General Post (1920) ext
Panel discussion:
The uses of archive material in contemporary programmes
Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (Walter Summers, 1927) 95mins
Introduction by Amy Sargeant
Gerry Turvey: The British & Colonial “What the Company Did in the Great War”
Christine Gledhill: Remembering World War I in 1920s British Cinema
Wonderful Story (1922) 4 mins
Mademoiselle From Armentieres (1926) ext. 5mins
The First Born (1928) 3.5 mins
Reveille 3mins
Michael Williams: Keep the Home Fires Burning (1916) and The Guns of Loos (1928)
The Guns of Loos (Sinclair Hall, 1928) 93mins plus short films
Introduction by Michael Williams.
Saturday 17 April
The Warrior Strain (F. Martin Thornton, 1919) 50mins
Non-English Perspectives:
Roel Vande Winkel: Belgian Documentary With Our Boys at the Yser [Met onze Jongens aan den Ijzer] (1929)
Jan anders Diesen: Censored Films
Leslie DeBauche: Exporting US Film & Ideology after WWI
Leen Engelen (University of Leuven, Belgium): In Flander’s Fields? The Absence of the British in Belgian Silent-Era Films of the First World War. Belgique Martyr 5mins
Dave Berry: The Strange Case of Lawrence Cowen & It Is For England (1916)
Simon Brown: World War I & the British Horror Film
Steve Foxon: Social and Industrial Britain during World War I. The Hornsby Train Tractor 15mins
Old Bill Through the Ages (Thomas Bentley 80 mins) 1924
Old Bill and the work of Bruce Bairnsfather.
Presentation by Frank Scheide
’Goodbye To All That’ – Luke McKernan & Frank Gray
Passmore Family Films (1903-03) 10 mins
Phantom Ride and Panorama (Cecil Hepworth, 1902)
Edwardian Folkestone (1904)
Old London Street Scenes (1903)
A Day in the Hayfields (Cecil Hepworth, 1904)
Oyster Fishing in Whitstable (Charles Urban, 1920)
Torpedo Attack On HMS Dreadnought (Charles Urban, 1907)
A Holiday Trip to the Clyde Coast of Scotland (Charles Urban, 1909)
Jack Johnson Pays A Visit to the Manchester Docks (1911)
The Great East End Anarchist Battle (1911) Gaumont
Great London to Manchester Aerial Race (1910) Warwick
Scenes in the Record Suffragette Demonstration in London (1910)
Shotton May Fair and John Summers’ Picnic (1913)
The Derby 1913 (1913) Topical Budget
Our King Emperor and Queen Empress Hold A Durbar At Delhi (1911)
Passmore Family Films (1903-03)
St Peters Church
Reconstruction of original Nottingham screening:
The Battle of the Somme (1916) plus short films
Sunday 18 April
Tony Fletcher: Prelude, Shrapnel & Fugue (Programme B)
‘Fugue’-
War Neuroses (1917/1918)
War Seal Manuscript (1919)
Armistice Day of 1928 (1928)
Vicarage Tris, Kerbstoreknt (1928)
David Mayer: Why Girls Leave Home: Bad Girl/Good Girl
Plays and Films c.1895-1925
Jude Cowan: First World War as Patriotic Opportunity
The German Spy Peril (1914) 17mins
David Williams: “Ladies of the Lamp”: Women in WWI Film
Paul Moody: Illicit Cinema Practices during World War I
Allen Eyles: The Effect of World War I on British Cinemas and
Cinema-Going
Lads From the Village (1919) 3.5 mins ext
The Better ‘Ole (1926) ext
Blighty (1927) 13mins ext
Mademoiselle From Armentières (1926) 23mins ext
Films from the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection
Introduced by Vanessa Toulmin and Rebecca Vick
Jenny Hammerton: Forces Sweethearts: British Stars and the War Effort
Jane Bryan: The Transformation of Picturegoer During WWI
Journey’s End (James Whale, 1930) 122mins + original trailer Introduced by Ian Christie
High Treason (Maurice Elvey, 1929) 75mins
Monday 19 April
The Passionate Adventure (Graham Cutts, 1924) 80mins with German intertitles
The General Post (Thomas Bentley, 1920) 64mins
Heroic Cinematograph, (Laurent Veray and Agnes de Sacy, 47 mins) France (2003)
Die Andere Seite [The Other Side] Germany (1931) 100mins with English subtitles
2005
The 8th British Silent Cinema Festival
CHANNEL CROSSINGS: Anglo-European Film Relations Before 1930
7-10 April 2005
Broadway, Nottingham,
Thursday 7 April
The Bondman, GB, 1929, Herbert Wilcox, (105mins)
The Call of the Blood (l’Appel du Sang) France (1920) Louis Mercanton, (71mins)
Human Law GB/Germany, 1926, Maurice Elvey, (84mins)
Paris 1900 (Fr 1948)
The Last Lesson (GB 1918)
The Fugitive Futurist (GB 1924)
The Woman He Scorned (GB, 1929) +
Rough Seas Around British Coasts (GB 1929)
Friday 8 April
‘Ici Londres, 1929′
Screenings introduced by Tony Fletcher
In a Japanese Garden (1928)
Dark Red Roses (1929)
The Flame of Love (1929)
Prix de Beaute (1929)
La Petite Marchande D’Allumette (1928)
Battling Bruisers (1925)
Everyday (1929)
‘It Happened in Venice: Adrian Brunel and The Man Without Desire (1923) presentation by Nathalie Morris
‘One Death Sentence and Three Lives: Walter Rilla in German and British Film’ presentation by Gerhild Krebs
‘The Films of Theo Bouwmeester’ introduced by Fred Lake
Screenings An Attempt to Smash a Bank (1909), A Woman’s Treachery (1910), The Old Soldier (1910)
‘Harry Southwell and the British-Australian involvement in the dream of a Belgian Hollywood’ Presentation by Leen Engelen and Roel Vande Winkel
David, Belgium, 1924, Harry Southwell (34mins)
The Golden Butterfly (Der Goldene Schmetterling) Austria/Germany, 1926, Michael Curtiz (77mins)
“Harry ‘Little Tich’ Relph: English Music Hall Phenomenon and International Superstar” presentation by Frank Scheide
‘Gaston Quiribet That Clever Frenchman’ presentation by David Williams
‘E.A. Dupont from Variety to Piccadilly’ Presentation by Graham Petrie followed by open discussion
Atlantic GB, 1929 E.A Dupont (90 mins) sound + Climbing the Jungfrau (1915) Frederick Burlingham, 9mins (silent)
Saturday 9 April
European travelogues
Radio Europa (Nlds 1931)
The Birthplace of Goethe GB 1925, Community Service
Glimpses of Modern Russia GB 1930, Workers’ Film Movement The Loveliest City in Europe GB 1920, Community Service
Amsterdam 1910 Gaumont
The Magic of Munich c 1930
Travelling Deluxe to the Continent (GB 1929) Gaumont
Eine Fahrt Durch Berlin (Journey Through Berlin) (Germany 1910)
‘Rough Sea at Dover and the reception of a sea that divides Britain and the Continent’ presentation by William Fowler
Rough Sea at Dover GB 1895, Bert Aces & R.W Paul
Sea Cave Near Lisbon GB 1896, R.W Paul
Rough Sea (France 1901)
Rough Sea (GB 1900) Bamforth
Rough Sea Breaking Against a Stone Wall (Fr 1901)
‘The Channel Tunnel in High Treason (1929): Urban Mobility and Context. presentation by Richard Koeck (20mins)
Tunnel sous le Manche: Cauchemar Franco-Anglais (Tunnelling the English Channel: The Anglo-French Nightmare) France 1907, George Melies (extr.)
Presentations
“Italy is the Land of Colour” Picturesque Italy: documentaries in Kinemacolor shot in Italy’ presentation by Orsola Silvestrini
‘Frederick Burlingham: British Cinema’s European Correspondent’ presentation by Gerry Turvey
‘Stereotypes of the English Tourist in Early Norwegian Cinema’ presentation by Jan-anders Diesen and Neil Fulton
Tesha (GB 1928) Victor Saville
The Early European Film Business
Panel Discussion
‘The Distribution of Italian Films in Britain 1907-1915′ presentation by Pierluigi Ercole
‘Mammon and the Trade: the European Film Business and Renters and Sales Agents in London’ presentation by Simon Brown.
That Fateful Year 1909′: Panel discussion on the influence of the 1909 Congress on the future of British and European film production led by Jon Burrows with Ian Christie, Martin Loiperdinger, Jean-Jacques Meusy
Special Screening and reception at St Peters Church:
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon
Sunday 10 April
Screening: Amleto (Hamlet), Italy 1917, Eleuterio Rodolfi (64mins) introduced by Luke Mckernan
Presentation
‘About Ivor Novello’s Image: Comparing Silent Bodies’ Presentation by Eric de Kuyper
‘The London Project’ Simon Brown and Luke McKernan; update on new research on early film in London
Presentation
‘She (1926): An Anglo-German-American Experiment’ presentation by Jude Cowan
‘La Belle France Steps In: International Co-operation and European Presence in Pathe Cinemaagazines’ presentation by Emily Fuller
‘Night and Fog and Benighted Ladies’ presentation by Amy Sargeant
Presentations and Panel Discussion 2
‘British Cinema and Film Europe in the 1920s’ presentation by andrew Higson Followed by open discussion
Cape Forlorn (extract of rushes in 3 languages) E.A Dupont 1930 (16mins)
‘Playwriting for the Cinema in Britain: The Shape of the screenplay before 1930′: presentation by Ian Macdonald.
The Black Tulip (GB/Netherlands 1921)
Dir. Frankland A. Richardson
Screening: Hamlet (Hamlet the Drama of Vengeance) (Germany 1920)
Dir. Sven Gade & Heinz Schall
2006
The 9th British Silent Cinema Festival
CHANNEL CROSSINGS: Anglo-European Film Relations Before 1930
6th to 9th April 2006
Broadway, Nottingham.
Thursday 6th April
The Beloved Vagabond (Fred Leroy Granville, GB 1923)
Laughter and Tears [Een lach en een traan] (B. E. Doxat-Pratt, Netherlands/GB 1921)
Flames of Passion (Graham Cutts, GB 1922) [*Dutch intertitles*]
The Constant Nymph (Adrian Brunel, GB 1928)
Weekend Wives (Harry Lachman, GB 1928)
+ Paris (1922)
Friday 7th April
Jan-anders Diesen & Neil Fulton
‘English Pioneer Filmmakers in Norway’
Decent into the Crater of Vesuvius (Burlingham, GB1913)
The Wellman Polar Expedition (Charles Urban Trading Company/J. H. Avery, GB 1906)
David Williams
‘Continentals on the Cards’
Tony Fletcher
‘From ‘Stockholm to Hamburg’ (via Saarbruken, Stockport, Brussels, Stockton-on-Tees, Rome, Moscow and Paris)’
+selection of “city films”
&’Harrlem-Elstree’
As God Made Her [Zoo als ik ben] (B. E. Doxat-Pratt, Netherlands/GB 1920) [extract]
Circus Jim [Zirkus Jim] (B. E. Doxat-Pratt & Adelqui Migliar, Netherlands/GB 1922) [extract]
The Skin Game [Hard tegen hard] (B. E. Doxat-Pratt, Netherlands/GB 1921)
Bryony Dixon
‘Around Europe with the Abbé Joye’
a selection of colour films from the BFI NFTVA’s Joye
William Fowler
’Primitive and Savage Cinema, from Britain, Europe and Beyond’
Savage South Africa – Attack and Repulse (Warwick Trading Company, GB 1899)
(Beheading a Chinese Boxer) (c1900)
Mondo Cane (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi & Paolo Cavara, Italy 1962) [extract]
Crossing the Great Sagrada (Adrian Brunel, GB 1924) [extract]
Panel Session with Jonathan Burrows, Pierluigi Ercole & Ian Christie
Jonathan Burrows: ‘After the Paris Congress; or, How the British Film Industry Came to Hate Pathé and Love Edison, 1910-1914′
Pierluigi Ercole: ‘”One lives now, but one sees then”: Imagining Italy’s Past and the Critical Reception of Italian Historical Films in Britain (1908-1915)’
Quo Vadis? (Enrico Guazzoni, Italy 1912) [extract]
Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei [The Last Days of Pompeii] (Mario Caserini, Italy 1913) [extract]
Ian Christie: ‘Spectacle and Sensation: The Impact of European Exclusives on the British Film Market, 1909-1914′
La Caduta di Troia [The Fall of Troy] (Pietro Fosco [Giovanni Pastrone] & Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Italy 1911)
[Italian intertitles]
The Alley Cat [Nachtgestalten] (Hans Steinhoff, GB/Germany 1929)
plus short: London by Night (Wonderful London series)
(Harry B. Parkinson & Frank Miller, GB 1924)
Saturday 8th April
Michael Eaton
’Grand Guignol in Clapham: Anglicising the Theatre of Fear and Terror’
A Game for Two (Grand Guignol series) (Fred Paul & Jack Raymond, GB 1921)
The Last Appeal (Grand Guignol series) (Fred Paul, GB 1921)
The Jest (Grand Guignol series) (Fred Paul, GB 1921)
Gerry Turvey
’Her Lover’s Honour (1909): The French Film d’Art and British Cinema’
Her Lover’s Honour (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1909)
L’Assassinat du Duc de Guise [The Assassination of the Duke de Guise] (andré Calmettes & Charles Le Bargy, France 1908) [extract]
Lawrence Napper ‘Blighty and the Continent’
Blighty (Adrian Brunel, GB 1927) [extract]
The Road to Happiness [Fiaker Nr. 13] (Michael Curtiz, Austria/Germany/GB 1926)
plus extract: Moon of Israel [Die Sklavenkönigin] (Michael Curtiz, Austria/GB 1924)
David Robinson ‘The Film Society Mystery’
Andrew Higson
’Film Europe Under the Microscope: The Golden Butterfly,
The Road to Happiness and the Anglo-Austrian Collaboration, 1924-1926′
Amy Sargeant
’Good and Bad Russians’
The Blackguard [Die Prinzessin und der Geiger] (Graham Cutts, GB/Germany 1925) [extract]
Storm Over Asia [Potomok Chingis-Khana] (Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR 1928) [extract]
Battling Bruisers (Adrian Brunel, GB 1925) [extract]
Luke McKernan with Mo Heard & Neil Brand
‘Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee’
St Peter’s Church
Downhill (Alfred Hitchcock, GB 1927)
Sunday 9th April
Daughter of the Regiment [Die Regimentstochter] (Hans Behrendt, Germany/GB 1929)
Kelly Robinson
’”Emblazon on their flag the words, ‘Collaboration and Reciprocity’”. J. D. Williams and John Maxwell: Britain’s Film Super-men and the Film Europe Endeavour in the Early 1920s’
Pavement Butterfly [Großstadtschmetterling] (Richard Eichberg, Germany/GB 1929) [extract]
Graham Petrie
‘The Three Informers’
The Informer (Arthur Robison, GB 1929) [extracts]
The Informer (John Ford, US 1935) [extract]
Ian Macdonald
‘More Playwriting for the Pictures’
Jude Cowan
’Newsfilm Online: A BUFVC Project at the ITN Archive’
(Gaumont Graphic newsreel items relating to Germany and Italy)
Luke McKernan
’Family History for Film Historians’
Silent Britain (Directed by David Thompson,
Written and Presented by Matthew Sweet, GB 2005)
The Wooing of Eve [Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer] (Max Mack, Germany/GB 1926)
Terje Vigen [A Man There Was] (Victor Sjöström, Sweden 1917) [German intertitles]
plus short: Napoleon and the English Sailor (Alf Collins, GB 1908)
2007
The 10th British Silent Cinema Festival
Underworld: Crime and Deviancy in the British Silent Film
26 to 29 April 2007
Broadway, Nottingham.
Thursday 26th April
The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu (A E Coleby, GB 1923) 60mins. Episodes:
The Silver Buddha and The Fungi Cellars
A Girl of London (Henry Edwards, GB 1925) 1hr 9mins
Lieutentant Daring and the Splodge of Opium
The Four Just Men (George Ridgewell, GB 1921) 1hr 6mins
The Gentle Doctor (Fred Paul, 1921) 13mins
Jeremy Jago – ‘A Death that Creeps Through Cracks ‘The Four Just Men and Edgar Wallace on Film
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode 1;
The Dying Detective (Maurice Elvey, GB 1921) 30mins
The Inaugural Rachael Low Lecture – Presented by Sir Christopher Frayling: ‘Museum without walls – images of the museum in British film’
Peter Yorke – book launch – William Haggar Fairground Filmmaker: Biography of a Pioneer of the Cinema.
John Lee the Man They Could Not Hang ( Arthur W Sterry, Aus. 1921) 1hr 20mins
The Story of the Kelly Gang (Charles Tait, Aus. 1906) 20mins
Friday 27th April
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode 11 The Copper Beeches;(Maurice Elvey, GB 1921) 30mins
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: episode 13The Musgrave Ritual
(George Ridgewell, GB 1922) 30mins
Matthew Sweet ‘The Singular Case of Eille Norwood’
Tony Fletcher William Booth and the Salvation Army Films 1900-08
Jude Cowan T he ‘Mechanical Novelty’ in the Crime Film: L.C. MacBean’s Trapped by the London Sharks (Barker, 1916)
Bleak House (Maurice Elvey, GB 1921) 1hr 20mins)
True Crime panel: Bryony Dixon, Michael Eaton, Vanessa Toulmin
The Life Story of Charles Peace (William Haggar, GB 1905) 15mins
The Sidney Street Siege (1911)
John Lee The Man They Couldn’t Hang
Maurizio CinquegraniOriental Tyrants: Sax Rohmer, René Plaissetty and The Yellow Claw
Nathalie Morris Two-Reel Tales: The Stoll Film Company and Series Production 1921-1925
Gerry Turvey “Another of those sex films”: The Transgressive Films of Harold Weston 1914-17
The Ware Case (Manning Haynes, GB 1928)
Underworld (Joseph Von Sternberg USA 1927)
Saturday 28th April
The Tempter (F Martin Thornton, GB 1913)
Peter Walsh Peace or Pursuit? The History and Legacy of the Sheffield Photographic Company.
Andrew Higson Crime and Deviancy in the Picture House
Sarah MacGregor ‘Rippermania’! Images of London’s East End looking at Waxworks, The Lodger and Pandora’s Box
Crime Fiction Overview: including
The Arrest of a Pickpocket (Birt Acres, GB 1895)
Sweeney Todd (extr.)
Lady Audley’s Secret (1920)
Judith McLaren – Ultus: The Man from the Dead : a reconstruction of Britain’s first serial
Frank Scheide – Chaplin, Costers and London Streetlife
Ian Christie – crime and cinemas
The First Born (Miles Mander, GB 1928) 1hr 24mins
Graham Petrie – Not Jack the Ripper: Hitchcock’s The Lodger
St Peter’s Church: The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, GB 1927)
+The Life of Charles Peace (William Haggar, GB 1905)
Sunday 29th April
Bulldog Drummond’s Third Round (Sydney Morgan GB 1925) 1hr 10mins
Peter Yorke on his forthcoming biography of William Haggar
Amy Sargeant - Gigolos and Older Women
Lawrence Napper – ‘Exploiting the Dead Actress: Billie Carleton and The Case of the Shocking Life Drama’
The Women’s Film History Project chaired by Christine Gledhill
Including screening The Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate (1912)
Nell Emerald: 6mins ext. from Yesterday’s Witness presented by Tony Fletcher
The Woman Who Did (5mins ext) presented by Amy Sargeant
Update on the Women Film Pioneers GB and Women in Silent Britain projects
Dylan Cave introduction to
Young Woodley (Thomas Bentley 1929)1hr 25mins + trailer
The Sign of Four (Maurice Elvey, GB 1923) 90mins
2008
11th British Silent Cinema Festival
Rats, Rascals and Ruffians: the Globalisation of Crime and the British Silent Film.
Broadway Nottingham 3rd to 6th April 2008
Thursday 3rd April
At The Foot of The Scaffold (1913)
The Bargain (1921) 74mins
David Williams – Street Crime GB: the Fascination with other people’s problems in early film
Red Pearls (1930) 74mins
The Imperial War Museum – new projects presented by David Walsh
The Woman’s Portion (1918)
+
Everybody’s Business (1917)
At the Villa Rose (1920)
Der Mann im Keller (1914)
Carmen von St Pauli (1928)
Friday 4th April
The Old Man in the Corner: The Kensington Mystery (1924)
Tony Fletcher – A Study in Detection
The Jealous Doll,
Bobby the Boy Scout,
Ltn Daring and the Plans of the Minefields,
The Detective’s Dog,
The False Coiners,
Zigomar Peau D’Anguille
Three Fingered Kate and the Wedding Presents
Jude Cowan
The Mechanical Novelty Film
Exts Trapped by the London Sharks
Andrew Shail
The Cinematograph and the Metamorphosis of Crime Fiction 20mins
Gerry Turvey
Three-Fingered Kate: Celebrating womanly cunning and successful female criminal enterprise
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Red Circle (1922)
Ian Christie The White Slave Trade
Traffic In Souls (1913)
The Hill Park Mystery (1923)
+Dr Nicholas and the Blue Diamond (ext)
Introduction by Mikael Braae
Sarah Macgregor
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend?: Tales of diamond smuggling in early cinema
Jaakko Seppala
International Crime in Finish Cinema of the late 1920s
The 2nd Rachael Low Lecture given by Kevin Brownlow
Chicago (1927)
Saturday 5th April
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921)
Lawrence Napper
British Post War Cinema and the ‘Bacillus of Bigamy’
Martin Carter
Anthony Asquith’s Crimes of Passion
Jenny Stewart
Piccadilly – The eroticism of Anna May Wong and her representation as ‘other’
Women and Silent Britain
Introduced and presented by Clare Watson & Nathalie Morris.
Simon Brown
Blanche MacIntosh – First Lady of Screen Crime
Amy Sargeant
The return of Mata Hari: A Woman Redeemed (1927)
Lisa Stead
It costs nothing to wish! Fan writing and self-representation in the British silent cinema
Tony Fletcher
Laura Eugenia Smith and the Biokam Films
David Mayer The Whip (1917) 70mins plus Pimple in the Whip (1917) 20mins
The Olympic Games on Film 1900-1924
Luke McKernan
St Peters Church The Rat (1925)
Sunday 6th April
The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu: The West Case episode 2 (1923) 30mins
Frank Scheide
Petty Crime in Fred Karno’s Music Hall Sketches as an Influence in the Early Films of Charlie Chaplin
Ian W. Macdonald
Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story: A closer look at film adaptation in the 1920s
Trapped By The Mormons (1922) 85mins
The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu (1923) The Clue of the Pigtail 30mins
Melodrama From Stage to Screen
Introduced and presented by Sarah Hibberd
Philip Carli
Stage-screen transformations of the melodramatic
Neil Brand
Music and Melodrama
Polly Goodwin
Acting Suspicious: exemplification of silent film acting techniques in Hitchcock’s early crime talkies
Dans la Nuit (1929)
