Past Festivals - 1998

This two day event will look at the history of British Film before the coming of sound, bring together cine-historians, collectors, students and aimed at anyone interested in British cinema of this period. Guest speakers will present illustrated talks on a variety of topics - from silent British comedy to cinemagazines, from cartoons to WWI films. There will also be a focus on the silent films of Alfred Hitchcock and silent stars such as Betty Balfour.

The weekend will include rare screenings and extracts of British silent films that have not been shown for decades, together with complete screenings of THREE classic British silents, with live piano accompaniment.

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The Forgotten Cinema
British Film Before 1930
(25th - 26th April, 1998)
held at Phoenix Arts, Leicester

FEATURES

Comradeship [Comrades in Arms] (Stoll Film Company, UK 1919)
Director: Maurice Elvey
Script: Jeffrey Bernard (from an original story by Louis N. Parker)
Photography: Paul Burger
Cast: Gerald Ames, Lily Elsie, Guy Newell, Peggy Carlisle, Teddy Arundell, Dallas Cairns, Kate Gurney

The Ring (British International Pictures, UK 1927)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Script: Alfred Hitchcock
Photography: Jack Cox
Cast: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davies, Ian Hunter, Gordon Hunter, "Bombardier" Billy Wells, Harvey Forrester, Harry Terry, Charles Farrell, Clare Greet, Tom Helmore, Brandy Walker

Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (Welsh-Pearson, UK 1922)
Director: George Pearson
Script: Hugh E. Wright, George Pearson
Photography: Emile Lauste
Cast: Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Annette Benson, Bertram Burleigh, Mary Brough, Hal Martin, Ambrose Manning, Donald Searle, Tom Morris, Sam Lewis

SHORTS

Attack on a Chinese Mission - Bluejackets to the Rescue (Williamson Kinematograph Company, UK 1900)
Dir: James Williamson

Blood and Bosh (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1913)
Dir: Hay Plumb
Cast: Jack Hulcup, Chrissie White, Hay Plumb, Alma Taylor

A Breach of Promise Case (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, UK 1908)
Dir: ???

C.O.D. - A Mellow Drama (???, UK 1929)
Dir: Lloyd T. Richards, Desmond Dickinson, Gerald Gibbs, Harcourt Templeman

The Countryman and the Cinematograph (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1901)
Dir: R. W. Paul

Crossing the Great Sagrada (???, UK 1924)
Dir: Adrian Brunel

The Dog Outwits the Kidnappers (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1908)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon

Fire! (Williamson Kinematograph Company, UK 1901)
Dir: James Williamson

Jack Spratt's Parrot Gets His Own Back (Clarendon Film Company, UK 1916)
Dir: Toby Cooper

Kate Purloins The Wedding Presents [from 'Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate' series] (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, UK 1912)
Dir: Charles Raymond

Lieutenant Lily and the Splodge of Opium (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1913)
Dir: Hay Plumb
Cast: Harry Buss

The Man to Beat Jack Johnson (Tyler Film Company, UK 1910)
Dir: ???
Cast: Willie Saunders

The Man Who Came Back (Regent Pictures, UK c.1915)
Dir: ???

Pimple's Battle of Waterloo (Phoenix Film Company, UK 1913)
Dir: Fred Evans
Cast: Fred Evans, Joe Evans

Rescued by Rover (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1905)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil M. Hepworth
Cast: Barbara Hepworth, Cecil M. Hepworth

Richard III (Co-Operative Cinematograph Company, UK 1911)
Dir: Frank R. Benson
Cast: Frank. R. Benson

The Unclean World (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1903)
Dir: Percy Stow

Which Switch ['Q-riosities, No. 12'] (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1922)
Dir: Gaton Queribet

A Wild Goose Chase (Clarendon Film Company, UK 1908)
Dir: Percy Stow

EXTRACTS (from Features)

The Lure of Drink (Barker Motion Photography, UK 1915)
Dir: A. E. Coleby
Cast: Roy Travers, Blanche Forsyth, Miss Maud Yates