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brochure from 2000 festival
brochure from 2000 festival

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





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