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brochure from 2002 festival
brochure from 2002 festival

Past Festivals - 2002


The 5th British Silent Cinema Weekend
Scene Stealing: Investigating British Silent Cinema and its Sources
(4th - 8th April, 2002)

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FEATURES

David Copperfield (Nordisk Film Kompagni, Denmark 1922)
Dir: Anders Wilhelm Sandberg
Script: Laurids Skands (from the novel by Charles Dickens)
Photography: Louis Larsen, Christen Jorgensen
Cast: Martin Herzberg, Gorm Schmidt, Karina Bell, Karen Winther, Paul Reumert, Else Nielsen, Rasmus Christiansen, Frederic Jensen, Anna Maria Wiehe, Peter Malberg, Marie Dinesen, Charles Wilken, Margarethe Schlegel, Daren Caspersen, Robert Schmidt, Ellen Rovsing, Karen Caspersen

East is East (Turner Film Company, UK 1916)
Dir: Henry Edwards
Script: Henry Edwards (from the play by Philip Hubbard & Gwendolyn Logan)
Photography: ???
Cast: Florence Turner, Henry Edwards, Ruth Mackay, W. G. Saunders, Edith Evans

East Lynne (Barker Motion Photography, UK 1913)
Dir: Bert Haldane
Script: ??? (from the novel by Mrs. Henry Wood)
Photography: ???
Cast: Rachel de Solla, Blanche Forsythe, Fred Morgan, May Norton, Fred Paul

Emerald of the East (British Pacific / British International Pictures, UK 1928)
Dir: Jean de Kuharski
Script: Jean de Kuharski (from a story by Mrs. Jerbanu Kothawala)
Photography: M. Planner, J. Rive, George W. Pocknall
Cast: Joshua Kean, Mary Odette, Jean de Kuharski, Lya Delvelez, Gillian Dean, Maria Forescu, Kenneth Rive, Promotha Bose

The Ghost Train [Der Geisterzug / Le Train Fantome] (Gainsborough Pictures / Phoebus Film-AG, UK/Germany 1927)
Dir: Geza von Bolvary
Script: Benno Vigny, Adolf Lantz (from the play by Arnold Ridley)
Photography: Otto Kanurek
Cast: Guy Newell, Ilse Bois, Louis Ralph, Hilde Jennings, John Manners, Agnes Korolenko, Ernest Verebes, Hertha Walther von Walther

Kitty (British International Pictures / Burlington Films, UK 1929)
Dir: Victor Saville
Script: Violet E. Powell, Benn W. Levy (from the novel by Warwick Deeping)
Photography: Karl Puth
Cast: Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Dorothy Cumming, Marie Ault, Winter Hall, Charles O'Shaughnessy, Olaf Hytten, Elwood Fleet Bostwick, Gibb McLaughlin, Jerrold Robertshaw, Rex Maurice, Charles Ashton, Charles Levey, Moore Marriot

Lady Audley's Secret (Ideal Film Company, UK 1920)
Dir: Jack Denton
Script: Eliot Stannard (from the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
Photography: Claude McDonnell
Cast: Margaret Bannerman, Hubert Willis, Betty Falquhar, H. Manning Haynes, Randolph McLeod, Wally Bosco, William Burchill, Berenice Melford, Ida Millais

The Man without Desire (Atlas Biocraft, UK 1923)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Script: Frank Fowell (from an idea by Monckton Hoffe)
Photography: Henry Harris
Cast: Ivor Novello, Nina Vanna, Sergio Mari, Christopher Walker, Jane Dryden, Dorothy Warren, Adrian Brunel

Tom Brown's Schooldays (Regal Films, UK 1916)
Dir: Rex Wilson
Script: Rex Wilson (from the novel by Thomas Hughes)
Photography: ???
Cast: Joyce Templeton, Jack Coleman, Evelyn Boucher, Wilfred Benson, Laurie Leslie, E. C. Arundell, Mona Damt, Eric Barker, Rolf Leslie, Jack Hobbs

The Triumph of the Rat (Gainsborough Pictures / Piccadilly Pictures, UK 1926)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Script: Graham Cutts, Reginald Fogwell (based on Characters from the original play by Ivor Novello and Constance Collier
Photography: Hal Young
Cast: Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Nina Vanna, Marie Ault, Lewis Mannering, Adeline Hayden Coffin, Julie Suedo, Charles Dormer, Gabriel Rosca

Underground (British Instructional Films, UK 1928)
Dir: Anthony Asquith
Script: Anthony Asquith
Photography: Stanley Rodwell, Karl Fischer
Cast: Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring

SHORTS

The Actors Squad (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1927)
Dir: ???

Alice in Wonderland (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1903)
Dir: Percy Stow and Cecil M. Hepworth

Ambush (Mitchell and Kenyon, UK 1900)
Dir: ???

The Bacon Grabbers (Hal Roach Studios, US 1929)
Dir: Lewis R. Foster
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jean Harlow

The Bailiffs (Associated Talking Pictures, UK 1932)
Dir: Frank Cadman
Cast: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Florence Harwood, Reginald Smith

Billy Merson Singing 'Desdemonia' (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1927)
Dir: ???

The Birth of a Flower ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, UK 1910)
Dir: Percy Smith

The Blacksmith's Daughter (Gaumont Film Company, UK 1904)
Dir: Alf Collins

Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict (???, UK 1903)
Dir: R. W. Paul

The Boy and the Convict (Williamson Kinematograph Company, UK 1909)
Dir: Dave Aylott

Brave Children; or, the Young Thief Catchers (Cricks and Martin, UK 1908)
Dir: A. E. Coleby

Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1901)
Dir: Walter R. Booth

Cheese Mites (???, UK 1903)
Dir: Percy Smith

Christmas Day in the Workhouse (Samuelson Film Company, UK 1914)
Dir: George Pearson

David Copperfield (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, UK 1913)
Dir: Thomas Bentley
Cast: Len Bethel, Eric Desmond, Alma Taylor

[Edwardian Folkestone] (???, UK c.1904)
Dir: ???

Exceeding His Duty (???, UK 1911)
Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth

Footpads (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1896)
Dir: ???

Funeral of Lieutenant Dinwoodie (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???

An Interrupted Journey (???, UK 1905)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon

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

The Latest News (Warwick Trading Company, UK 1904)
Dir: ???

Lewis Casson and Old Vic Company in excepts from 'The Merchant of Venice' (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1927)
Dir: ???

The Little Match Seller (Williamson Kinematograph Company, UK 1902)
Dir: James Williamson

Love Story of Ann Thomas [The Maid of Cefn Ydfa] (???, UK 1913)
Dir: William Hagger, Jr

[Man Meets Ragged Boy] (G. A. Smith, UK c.1902)
Dir: G. A. Smith

Matches: An Appeal (???, UK 1899)
Dir: Arthur Melbourne Cooper

The Medium Exposed; or, A Modern Spiritualistic Seance (Paul's Antimatograph Works, UK 1906)
Dir: J. H. Martin (?)

Napoleon and the English Sailor (Gaumont Film Company, UK 1908)
Dir: Alf Collins

Nicholas Nickleby (Gaumont Film Company, US 1903)
Dir: Alf Collins
Cast: William Carrington

Oliver Twist (Vitagraph Company of America, US 1909)
Dir: J. Stuart Blackton
Cast: Edith Storey, William Humphrey, Elita Proctor Otis

The Press - Illustrated (???, UK 1904)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon

A Railway Collision (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1900)
Dir: Walter R. Booth

A Reservist, Before the War, and After the War (Williamson Kinematograph Company, UK 1902)
Dir: James Williamson

Robbery (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1897)
Dir: R. W. Paul

Robinson Crusoe (G. A. Smith, UK 1902)
Dir: G. A. Smith

Rothesay Peace Celebrations (???, UK ???)
Dir: ???

Santos Canasi and Jose Lennard in an Exhibition of the New Flat Charleston (De Forest Phonofilms, UK 1927)
Dir: ???

Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1901)
Dir: Walter R. Booth

Strength and Agility of Insects ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, UK c.1911)
Dir: Percy Smith

[Tartans of the Scottish Clans] (Natural Colour Kinematograph Company, UK c.1906)
Dir: G. A. Smith

To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, UK c.1909)
Dir: Percy Smith

Tommy Atkins in the Park (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1898)
Dir: R. W. Paul

[Topical Budget - War Office (Hall Caine)] (1st December, 1917)
Dir: ???

[Unidentified Chronophone Film - Drawing Room] (???, UK 1906)
Dir: ???

Upside Down; or, the Human Flies (Paul's Animatograph Works, UK 1898)
Dir: ???

Water Fleas and Rotifers ['Urban Science series'] (Charles Urban Trading Company, UK 1903)
Dir: Percy Smith

EXTRACTS (from Features)

Bleak House (Ideal Film Company, UK 1920)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Constance Collier, Berta Gellardi, E. Vivian Reynolds, Norman Page

The Bondman (British and Dominions, UK 1929)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: Frances Cuyler, Norman Kerry, Donald McCardle, Dora Barton

High Treason (Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, UK 1929)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Benita Hume, Jameson Thomas, Humberston Wright, Kiyoshi Takase

Little Dorrit (Progress Film Company, UK 1920/21)
Dir: Sidney Morgan
Cast: Lady Tree, Langhorn Burton, Joan Morgan, Compton Coutts

Lille Dorrit [Little Dorrit] (Nordish Film Kompagni, Denmark 1924)
Dir: Anders Wilhelm Sandberg
Cast: Karina Bell, Karen Caspersen, Torben Meyer

Nelson; the Story of a England's Immortal Naval Hero (International Exclusives, UK 1919)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Donald Calthrop, Malvina Longfellow, Ivy Close, Ernest Thesiger

The Only Way (Herbert Wilcox Productions, UK 1926)
Dir: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: John Martin Harvey, Madge Stuart, Betty Faire, Ben Webster

Palais de Danse (Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, UK 1928)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Mabel Poulton, John Longden, Robin Irvine, Hilda Moore

The Prodigal Son (Stoll Picture Productions, UK 1923)
Dir: A. E. Coleby
Cast: Stewart Rome, Henry Victor, Edith Bishop, Colette Brettel

Squibs (Welsh-Pearson, UK 1921)
Dir: George Pearson
Cast: Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Annette Benson

Sweeney Todd (Ideal Film Company, UK 1926)
Dir: George Dewhurst
Cast: Moore Marriott, Zoe Palmer, Judd Green, Harry Lorraine

The Vortex (Gainsborough Pictures, UK 1928)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Cast: Ivor Novello, Willette Kershaw, Frances Doble, Alan Hollis

The Wandering Jew (Stoll Picture Productions, UK 1923)
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Cast: Matheson Lang, Hutin Britton, Malvina Longfellow, Isobel Elsom

The Wonderful Story (Graham-Wilcox Productions, UK 1922)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Cast: Lillian Hall-Davies, Herbert Langley, Olaf Hytten, Bernard Vaughan

EXTRACTS (from Shorts)

The Cricket on the Hearth (Biograph Company, US 1909)
Dir: D. W. Griffith
Cast: Owen Moore, Violet Mersereau, Linda Arvindson, Dorothy West

A Daughter of Romany (Edison Photplays, US 1913/14)
Dir: Charles Brabin

The Pickwick Papers (Vitagraph Company of America, US/UK 1913)
Dir: Laurence Trimble
Cast: John Bunny, James Pryor, Sidney Hunt, Fred Hornby

Stanton's Last Fling (???, US 1913)
Dir: Charles M. Seay

A Tale of Two Cities (Vitagraph Company of America, US 1911)
Dir: J. Stuart Blackton and William Humphrey
Cast: Maurice Costello, Florence Turner, John Bunny, Norma Talmadge

EXTRACTS (Others)

(Selection of Mitchell and Kenyon films)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Magic Lantern Presentation by Peter Gillies "Gabriel Grub" and "The Old Curiosity Shop"






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