Past Festivals - 2000
The 3rd British Silent Cinema Weekend
Performing British Cinema
(14th - 16th April, 2000)
Download the 2000 Festival Brochure here (PDF)
Download the Introduction from 'The Showman, the Spectacle and the two-minute silence'
(Flicks Book Publication for this Festival) - (PDF)
FEATURES
Fox Farm (George Clark Productions, UK 1922)
Dir: Guy Newell
Script: Guy Newell (from the novel by Warwick Deeping)
Photography: Hal Young
Cast: Ivy Duke, Guy Newell, A. Bromley Davenport, Barbara Everest, Cameron Carr, Charles Evemy, John Alexander
The Little People (Welsh-Pearson, UK 1926)
Dir: George Pearson
Script: George Pearson, Thorold Dickinson (from a story by George Pearson)
Photography Percy Strong
Cast: Mona Maris, Frank Stanmore, Gerald Ames, Randle Ayrton, Harry Furniss, Barbara Gott, James Reardon
Madame Pompadour (British International Pictures, UK 1927)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
Script: ??? (from the play by Frederick Lonsdale and Harry Graham)
Photography: Roy Overbaugh
Cast: Dorothy Gish, Antonio Moreno, Henri Bosc, Gibb McLaughlin, Nelson Keys, Marie Ault, Cyril McLaglen, Marsa Beauplan, Tom Reynolds
SHORTS
Are We Downhearted? (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK c.1909)
Dir: ???
Are You a Lip Reader? (Pathe, UK 1933)
Dir: ???
Betty Chester in 'Pigtail Alley' (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
Billy Merson in 'Russian Opera' (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
Bobby the Boy Scout, or, The Boy Detective (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
Bunkered at Blackpool (Weister Bros., UK c.1913)
Dir: ???
By The Side of the Zuyder Zee ['Cinematophone Singing Pictures series No. 108'] (Walturdaw Company, UK 1907)
Dir: ???
The Dance of the Sea (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Dog Outwits the Kidnappers (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1908)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
The Dull Razor (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
1st SW London (Putney) Boy Scouts Camp in Camp at Polzeath (???, UK 1909)
Dir: ???
[Herbert Campbell as 'Little Bobby'] (British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, UK c.1899)
Dir: ???
I Want to Be Alone with Mary Brown (???, UK 1928)
Dir: ???
Just Keep a Thought for Me (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
Kitty Mahone (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Lie (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1914)
Dir: Frank Wilson
Lightning (???, UK 1933)
Dir: ???
Lord Roberts Hoisting Union Jack at Pretoria (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Luck of the Red Lion [Ein Vornehmer Hotelgast ] (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1912)
Dir: Hay Plumb
Masques and Grimaces (???, UK c.1901)
Dir: ???
May Moore Duprez: Whilst You Wait (Precision Films, UK 1912)
Dir: ???
Mister Moon (Mitchell and Kenyon, UK 1901)
Dir: ???
Cast: Percy Honri
The Night I Fought Jack Johnson (Hepworth Manufacturing Works, UK c.1912)
Dir: ???
The Old Chorister (Williamson Kinematograph Company, UK 1904)
Dir: James Williamson
The Plumber and the Lunatics (Walter Tyler Film Company, UK 1908)
Dir: ???
The Prince at the Jamboree (???, UK 1929)
Dir: ???
Rally of Birmingham Boy Scouts [Williamson Animated News No. 53] (???, UK 1909)
Dir: ???
Rescued in Mid-Air (Clarendon Film Company, UK 1906)
Dir: Percy Stow
A Second Peep at Mayfair and Montmatre (???, UK c.1921)
Dir: ???
Shakespeare's Country (???, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
The Sheepstealer (Hagger (?), UK ???)
Dir: William Hagger
The Toreador Song (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
[Unidentified Gaumont Chronophone] (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Waif and the Wizard; or, the Home Made Happy (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1901)
Dir: Walter R. Booth
Washing the Sweep (???, UK ???)
Dir:
Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone ['Cinematophone Singing Pictures series No. 102'] (Walturdaw Company, UK 1907)
Dir: ???
Whisper and I Shall Hear (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
Words and Music: No. 2 (???, UK 1928)
Dir: ???
The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terris in a Selection of Their Dances (Topical Film Company, UK 1912)
Dir: ???
Wrexham - Wales vs. Ireland, 1906) (???, UK 1906)
Dir: ???
EXTRACTS (from Features)
The Battle of Waterloo (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, UK 1913)
Dir: Charles Weston
Cast: Ernest G. Batley, George Foley, Vivian Ross
Carnival (Alliance Films Corporation, UK 1921)
Dir: Harley Knoles
Cast: Matheson Lang, Ivor Novello, Clifford Grey, Victor McLaglen
The Flag Lieutenant (Astra-National, UK 1926)
Dir Maurice Elvey
Cast: Henry Edwrads, Lillian Oldland, Dorothy Seacombe, Fred Raynham
Lady Windermere's Fan (Ideal Film Company, UK 1916)
Dir: Fred Paul
Cast: Milton Rosmer, Irene Rooke, Nigel Playfair, Netta Westcott
The Lure of Crooning Water (George Clark Productions, UK 1920)
Dir Arthue Rooke
Cast: Guy Newall, Ivy Duke, Hugh Buckler, Douglas Munro
Masks and Faces (Ideal Film Company, UK 1917)
Dir: Fred Paul
Cast: Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Irene Vanbrugh, Henry S. Irving, Gerald du Maurier
The Passionate Adventure (Gainsborough Pictures, UK 1924)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Cast: Alice Joyce, Majorie Daw, Clive Brook, Lillian Hall-Davies
Tansy (Hepworth Picture Plays, UK 1921)
Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth
Cast: Alma Taylor, James Carew, Gerald Ames, Hugh Clifton
Underground (British Instructional Films, UK 1928)
Dir: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring
The Vicar of Wakefield (Ideal Film Company, UK 1916)
Dir: Fred Paul
Cast: Laura Cowie, John Hare, Marie Illington, Ben Webster
EXTRACTS (from shorts)
The Antidote (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1927)
Dir: ???
Mr. Smith Wakes Up (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1929)
Dir: ???
EXTRACTS (Others)
(Selection of films from the bfi's '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
Fox Farm (George Clark Productions, UK 1922)
Dir: Guy Newell
Script: Guy Newell (from the novel by Warwick Deeping)
Photography: Hal Young
Cast: Ivy Duke, Guy Newell, A. Bromley Davenport, Barbara Everest, Cameron Carr, Charles Evemy, John Alexander
The Little People (Welsh-Pearson, UK 1926)
Dir: George Pearson
Script: George Pearson, Thorold Dickinson (from a story by George Pearson)
Photography Percy Strong
Cast: Mona Maris, Frank Stanmore, Gerald Ames, Randle Ayrton, Harry Furniss, Barbara Gott, James Reardon
Madame Pompadour (British International Pictures, UK 1927)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
Script: ??? (from the play by Frederick Lonsdale and Harry Graham)
Photography: Roy Overbaugh
Cast: Dorothy Gish, Antonio Moreno, Henri Bosc, Gibb McLaughlin, Nelson Keys, Marie Ault, Cyril McLaglen, Marsa Beauplan, Tom Reynolds
SHORTS
Are We Downhearted? (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK c.1909)
Dir: ???
Are You a Lip Reader? (Pathe, UK 1933)
Dir: ???
Betty Chester in 'Pigtail Alley' (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
Billy Merson in 'Russian Opera' (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
Bobby the Boy Scout, or, The Boy Detective (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
Bunkered at Blackpool (Weister Bros., UK c.1913)
Dir: ???
By The Side of the Zuyder Zee ['Cinematophone Singing Pictures series No. 108'] (Walturdaw Company, UK 1907)
Dir: ???
The Dance of the Sea (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Dog Outwits the Kidnappers (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1908)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
The Dull Razor (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
1st SW London (Putney) Boy Scouts Camp in Camp at Polzeath (???, UK 1909)
Dir: ???
[Herbert Campbell as 'Little Bobby'] (British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, UK c.1899)
Dir: ???
I Want to Be Alone with Mary Brown (???, UK 1928)
Dir: ???
Just Keep a Thought for Me (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
Kitty Mahone (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Lie (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1914)
Dir: Frank Wilson
Lightning (???, UK 1933)
Dir: ???
Lord Roberts Hoisting Union Jack at Pretoria (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Luck of the Red Lion [Ein Vornehmer Hotelgast ] (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1912)
Dir: Hay Plumb
Masques and Grimaces (???, UK c.1901)
Dir: ???
May Moore Duprez: Whilst You Wait (Precision Films, UK 1912)
Dir: ???
Mister Moon (Mitchell and Kenyon, UK 1901)
Dir: ???
Cast: Percy Honri
The Night I Fought Jack Johnson (Hepworth Manufacturing Works, UK c.1912)
Dir: ???
The Old Chorister (Williamson Kinematograph Company, UK 1904)
Dir: James Williamson
The Plumber and the Lunatics (Walter Tyler Film Company, UK 1908)
Dir: ???
The Prince at the Jamboree (???, UK 1929)
Dir: ???
Rally of Birmingham Boy Scouts [Williamson Animated News No. 53] (???, UK 1909)
Dir: ???
Rescued in Mid-Air (Clarendon Film Company, UK 1906)
Dir: Percy Stow
A Second Peep at Mayfair and Montmatre (???, UK c.1921)
Dir: ???
Shakespeare's Country (???, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
The Sheepstealer (Hagger (?), UK ???)
Dir: William Hagger
The Toreador Song (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
[Unidentified Gaumont Chronophone] (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
The Waif and the Wizard; or, the Home Made Happy (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1901)
Dir: Walter R. Booth
Washing the Sweep (???, UK ???)
Dir:
Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone ['Cinematophone Singing Pictures series No. 102'] (Walturdaw Company, UK 1907)
Dir: ???
Whisper and I Shall Hear (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???
Words and Music: No. 2 (???, UK 1928)
Dir: ???
The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terris in a Selection of Their Dances (Topical Film Company, UK 1912)
Dir: ???
Wrexham - Wales vs. Ireland, 1906) (???, UK 1906)
Dir: ???
EXTRACTS (from Features)
The Battle of Waterloo (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, UK 1913)
Dir: Charles Weston
Cast: Ernest G. Batley, George Foley, Vivian Ross
Carnival (Alliance Films Corporation, UK 1921)
Dir: Harley Knoles
Cast: Matheson Lang, Ivor Novello, Clifford Grey, Victor McLaglen
The Flag Lieutenant (Astra-National, UK 1926)
Dir Maurice Elvey
Cast: Henry Edwrads, Lillian Oldland, Dorothy Seacombe, Fred Raynham
Lady Windermere's Fan (Ideal Film Company, UK 1916)
Dir: Fred Paul
Cast: Milton Rosmer, Irene Rooke, Nigel Playfair, Netta Westcott
The Lure of Crooning Water (George Clark Productions, UK 1920)
Dir Arthue Rooke
Cast: Guy Newall, Ivy Duke, Hugh Buckler, Douglas Munro
Masks and Faces (Ideal Film Company, UK 1917)
Dir: Fred Paul
Cast: Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Irene Vanbrugh, Henry S. Irving, Gerald du Maurier
The Passionate Adventure (Gainsborough Pictures, UK 1924)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Cast: Alice Joyce, Majorie Daw, Clive Brook, Lillian Hall-Davies
Tansy (Hepworth Picture Plays, UK 1921)
Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth
Cast: Alma Taylor, James Carew, Gerald Ames, Hugh Clifton
Underground (British Instructional Films, UK 1928)
Dir: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring
The Vicar of Wakefield (Ideal Film Company, UK 1916)
Dir: Fred Paul
Cast: Laura Cowie, John Hare, Marie Illington, Ben Webster
EXTRACTS (from shorts)
The Antidote (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1927)
Dir: ???
Mr. Smith Wakes Up (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1929)
Dir: ???
EXTRACTS (Others)
(Selection of films from the bfi's '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
