Past Festivals - 2001
The 4th British Silent Cinema Weekend
Crossing the Pond: The 'Special Relationship' Between Britain and America
(6th - 8th April, 2001)
Download the 2001 Festival Brochure here (PDF)
Download the Contents Listing from 'Crossing the Pond: The 'Special Relationship' Between Britain and America (Flicks Book Publication for this Festival) - (PDF)
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FEATURES
Exit Smiling (MGM, US 1926)
Dir: Sam Taylor
Script: Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan (from a story by Marc Connelly)
Photography: Andre Barlatier
Cast: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd, DeWitt Jennings, Harry Myers, Tenen Hooltz, Louise Lorraine, Franklin Pangborn, D'Arcy Corrigan, Carl Richards, William Gillespie
The Informer (British International Pictures, UK 1929)
Dir: Arthur Robison
Script: Benn W. Levy (from the novel by Liam O'Flaherty)
Photography: Werner Brandes, Theodore Sparkuhl
Cast: Lya de Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord, Daisy Campbell, Janice Adair, Dennis Wyndham, Craighall Sherry, Ellen Pollack, Johnny Butt
Kipps; The Story of a Simple Soul (Stoll Film Company, UK 1921)
Dir: Harold Shaw
Script: Frank Miller (from the novel by H. G. Wells)
Photography: Silvano Balboni
Cast: George K. Arthur, Edna Flugrath, Christine Rayner, Norman Thorpe, Teddy Arundell, Arthur Helmore, John M. East, Annie Esmond, Judd Green
SHORTS
The Amorous Milkman (???, UK 1904)
Dir: ???
Billy Nelson in His Harry Lauder Burlesque 'Scotland's Whiskey' (???, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
Bonzolino; or, Bonzo Broadcasted ['Bonzo series No. 10'] (New Era, UK 1925)
Dir: ???
Sleepless ['Bully Boy series No. 3'] (Neptune Films, UK 1914)
Dir: Lancelot Speed
Bunny at the Derby (Vitaphone Company of America, US 1912)
Dir: Laurence Trimble
Cast: John Bunny, Betina Smith
The Child Stealers (???, UK 1904)
Dir: ???
A Christmas Carol (London Film Company, UK 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
Cast: Franklyn Bellamy, Mary Brough, Arthur M. Cullin, Edna Flugrath
The Favourite for the Jamaica Cup (???, UK 1913)
Dir: ???
Joseph Termini - The Somnolent Melodist (???, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
The Lad From Old Ireland (Kalem Company, US 1910)
Dir: Sidney Olcott
Cast: Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Thomas O'Connor, Arthur Donaldson
Paul England and Dorothy Boyd's 'Knee Deep in Daisies' (???, UK 1926)
Dir: ???
Peter's Picture Poems (Kine Komedy Kartoons, UK 1918)
Dir: Anson Dyer
The Professor (???, UK 1903)
Dir: ???
A Race for a Kiss (???, UK 1904)
Dir: ???
The Ring and the Rajah (London Film Company, UK 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
Rory O'More (Kalem Company, US 1911)
Dir: Sidney Olcott
Cast: Jack J. Clark, Gene Gauntier, Robert G. Vignola, J. P. McGowan
Somewhere in Wrong ['Stan Laurel Comedies series'] (Standard Cinema Corporation, US 1925)
Dir: Percy Pembroke
Cast: Stan Laurel, Max Asher, Julie Leonard, Charles King
The Two Columbines (London Film Company, UK 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
Ultus and the Grey Lady (Gaumont, UK 1916)
Dir: George Pearson
The Warning (Majestic Motion Picture Company, US 1914)
Dir: Donald Crisp
Who Said We Can't Make British Pictures? (Pathe, UK 1926)
Dir: ??
EXTRACTS (from Features)
The Clue of the New Pin (British Lion Film Corporation, UK 1929)
Dir: Arthur Meade
Cast: Benita Hume, Kim Peacock, Donald Calthrop, John Gielgud
Nell Gwynne (British National, UK 1926)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Juliette Compton, Sydney Fairbrother
EXTRACTS (from Shorts)
America's Answer to the Hun (???, US 1918)
Dir: ???
Flashes of Action (???, US c.1919)
Dir: ???
Hands Across the Sea (???, UK 1918)
Dir: ???
Ivanhoe (Independent Moving Pictures Film Co., US 1913)
Dir: Herbert Brenon
Cast: King Baggot, Leah Baird, Herbert Brenon, Evelyn Hope
Ivanhoe (Zenith Film Company, UK 1913)
Dir: Leedham Bantock
Cast: Lauderdale Maitland, Ethel Bracewell, Nancy Bevington, Hubert Carter
