2008 Festival Programme
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Thursday 3rd April
10-11am: REGISTRATION
11am: - SCREENINGS
At The Foot of The Scaffold
(1913) 24mins
The Bargain
(1921) 74mins
Presentation
David Williams
Street Crime UK: the Fascination with other people's problems in early film
1pm - 2pm: - LUNCH
2pm: - SCREENINGS
Red Pearls (1930) 74mins
Plus.
The Imperial War Museum
New projects presented by David Walsh
Screenings
The Woman's Portion (1918)
23 mins
Plus
Everybody's Business (1917)
28mins
4.20 - 4.50pm: TEA
4.50pm: SCREENINGS
At the Villa Rose
(1920) 82mins
Der Mann im Keller
(1914) 44mins
8pm - 9pm: DINNER
Special Event 7pm
The Galleries of Justice
wine reception and exhibition
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
Screening 9pm
Carmen von St Pauli
(1928) 114mins
Friday 4th April
9am - SCREENING
The Old Man in the Corner: The Kensington Mystery (1924) 30 mins
PRESENTATION AND SCREENINGS
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. ext
Three Fingered Kate and the Wedding Presents
10.30am - 11am: - TEA
11am - PRESENTATIONS
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
SCREENING
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Red Circle (1922)
Presentation
Ian Christie
The White Slave Trade
Plus ext.
Traffic In Souls
1pm - 2pm: - LUNCH
2pm - SCREENING
The Hill Park Mystery (1923)75mins
Plus ext.
Dr Nicholas and the Blue Diamond
Introduction by Mikael Braae
95mins
Break 20mins
4pm - PRESENTATIONS
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
5 - 5.30pm: TEA
5.30pm - SPECIAL EVENT
(Screen 1)
The Rachael Low Lecture given by Kevin Brownlow
90mins
7pm - 9pm: DINNER
9pm - SCREENING
(Screen 1) Chicago (1927) 117mins
Saturday 5th April
9am - SCREENING
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921) 30mins
11am - PRESENTATIONS
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'
10.30 - 11am: TEA
11am - SPECIAL EVENT
Women and Silent Britain
Introduced and presented by Clare Watson & Nathalie Morris.
PRESENTATIONS
Simon Brown
Blanche MacIntosh - First Lady of Screen Crime
Amy Sargeant
The return of Mata Hari: A W oman Redeemed (1927)
Lisa Stead
It costs nothing to wish! Fan writing and self-representation in the British silent cinema
Presentation cont.
Tony Fletcher
Laura Eugenia Smith and the Biokam Films
1pm - 2pm: - LUNCH
2pm - PRESENTATION
David Mayer
Screenings
The Whip (1917) 70mins
Plus
Pimple in the Whip (1917) 20mins
4 - 4.30pm: TEA
4.30pm - SPECIAL EVENT
(Screen 1)
The Olympic Games on Film 1900-1924
Luke McKernan -
90mins
6pm - 8pm: DINNER
8pm - SPECIAL EVENT
St Peters Church
wine reception
plus
The Rat (1925) 78mins
Sunday 6th April
9am - SCREENING
The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu
The West Case episode 2 (1923)
30mins
PRESENTATIONS
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
10.30 - 11am: TEA
11am - SCREENINGS
Trapped By The Mormons (1922) 85mins
The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu (1923) The Clue of the Pigtail 30mins
1pm - 2pm: - LUNCH
2pm - SPECIAL EVENT
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
4 - 4.30pm: TEA
4.30pm - SCREENINGS
Dans la Nuit (1929) 82mins
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