2005 Programme (updated 28/3/05)

The 8th British Silent Cinema Festival

CHANNEL CROSSINGS
Anglo-European Film Relations Before 1930
Broadway, Nottingham, 7-10 April 2005

TIMETABLE (updated 28/3/05)

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(Programme and Presentation notes available here)

THURSDAY 7 APRIL

9.30 am
Registration

10.30 pm
Screening: The Bondman, GB, 1929, Herbert Wilcox, (105mins)

12.15pm
LUNCH + lunchtime workshop: Seminar room

1.30pm
Screening: The Call of The Blood (l'Appel du Sang) France (1920) Louis Mercanton, (71mins)

2.45 pm
BREAK

3.15pm
Screening: Human Law, GB/Germany, 1926, Maurice Elvey, (84mins)

4.45 pm
BREAK

5.15 pm
Screenings: Paris 1900, France 1948, Nicole Vedres (50mins)
The Last Lesson, GB 1918, (20 mins)
The Fugitive Futurist: GB 1924, Gaston Quiribet (11mins)

6.30pm
WINE RECEPTION

7.00pm
DINNER

8.45pm
Screening: The Woman He Scorned, GB, 1929, Paul Czinner (90 mins)
Rough Seas Around British Coasts: GB 1929, (10mins)

10.30pm
Ends. Late Bar at Broadway.

FRIDAY 8 APRIL

9.15 am
'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)

10.15 am
Presentations Session 1.

'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)

11.45 am
BREAK

12.15 pm
Presentation Session 2.

'Harry Southwell and the British-Australian involvement in the dream of a Belgian Hollywood' Presentation by Leen Engelen and Roel Vande Winkel
Screening: David, Belgium, 1924, Harry Southwell (34mins)

1.15 pm
LUNCH + lunchtime workshop

2.30 pm
Screening: The Golden Butterfly (Der Goldene Schmetterling) Austria/Germany, 1926, Michael Curtiz (77mins)

3.50 pm
BREAK

4.20 pm
Presentation Session 3

"Harry 'Little Tich' Relph: English Music Hall Phenomenon and International Superstar" presentation by Frank Scheide &

'Gaston Quiribet That Clever Frenchman' presentation by David Williams

5.30 pm
'E.A. Dupont from Variety to Piccadilly' Presentation by Graham Petrie followed by open discussion

6.45 pm
DINNER at BROADWAY

8.45pm
Screening: Atlantic, GB, 1929 E.A Dupont (90 mins) sound + Climbing the Jungfrau (1915) Frederick Burlingham, 9mins (silent)

10.25 pm
Free Time: Late Bar at Broadway

SATURDAY 9 APRIL

9.00 am
Travelogue Programme and

Radio Europa GB, 12.5mins
The Birthplace of Goethe GB 1925, Community Service (10mins)
Glimpses of Modern Russia GB 1930, Workers' Film Movement (12mins)
The Loveliest City in Europe GB 1920, Community Service (10mins)
Amsterdam 1910 Gaumont (5mins)
The Magic of Munich c 1930 (5mins)
Travelling Deluxe to the Continent GB 1929? Gaumont, (10mins)
Eine Fahrt Durch Berlin (Journey Through Berlin) Germany 1910, Messter Film, (5mins)

Presentations Session 4:
Rough Seas and Channel Tunnels: 'The Anglo-French Nightmare'

'Rough Sea at Dover and the reception of a sea that divides Britain and the Continent' presentation by William Fowler (15mins)

Rough Sea at Dover GB 1895, Bert Aces & R.W Paul (1min)
Sea Cave Near Lisbon: GB 1896, R.W Paul (15secs)
Rough Sea France 1901, Lumiere?, (50secs)
Rough Sea GB 1900, Bamforth, (1min)
Rough Sea Breaking Against a Stone Wall GB,1min
Total running time 5mins

'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 (10mins) ext

11.00 am
BREAK

11.30 am
Presentations Session 5

"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

1.00 pm
LUNCH + lunchtime workshop

2.15 pm
Screening: Tesha, GB 1928, Victor Saville (86 mins)

3.45 pm
BREAK

4.15 pm
The Early European Film Business
Panel Discussion 1

'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

6.00 pm
Open Discussion

6.30pm
DINNER at BROADWAY

8.15 for 8.30pm
Special Screening and reception at St Peters Church:
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon

10.30 pm
screening ends. Late Bar at Broadway.

SUNDAY 10 APRIL

9.15 am
Screening: Amleto (Hamlet), Italy 1917, Eleuterio Rodolfi (64mins) introduced by Luke Mckernan

10.30am
Break

11.00 am
Presentation Session 6

'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

12.15 am
LUNCH + lunchtime workshop

1.30 pm
Presentation Session 7

'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

3.00pm
BREAK

3.30 pm
Presentations and Panel Discussion 2

'British Cinema and Film Europe in the 1920s' presentation by Andrew Higson Followed by open discussion

Screening 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.

4.45 pm
BREAK

5.15pm
Screening: The Black Tulip, GB/Netherlands 1921, Frankland A. Richardson (75mins)

6.45 pm
Screening: Hamlet (Hamlet the Drama of Vengeance) Germany 1920, Sven Gade & Heinz Schall (105 mins)

8.30 pm
END OF FESTIVAL

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