| Posted by: sirmichaelcat at March 19, 2008, 12:24 pm | | Topic: The British Silent Cinema Festival, April 3rd-6th 2008 Forum: groupsrv | | On Mar 18, 5:22 am, Bruce Calvert wrote: Quote:http://www.britishsilentcinema.com/home.php Home & News The British Silent Cinema Festival - 2008, now in its 11th year, is a celebration of British cinema before 1930 and is organized in collaboration with the British Film Institute. The Festival aims to showcase the vast collection of films, fiction and non fiction, produced in Britain before the advent of sound, principaly from the collection at the BFI National Archive, the UK's national repository of film and television. Many of the films are 're- discoveries' and will not have been seen in public for several decades. This year the theme is Rats,Ruffians and Radicals: The Globalisation of crime and British Silent Film http://www.britishsilentcinema.com/downloads/pdfs/2008_programme.pdf THURS 3 APRIL 11.00AM AT THE FOOT OF THE SCAFFOLD Pc Hepworth Manufacturing Company Dir. Warwick Buckland GB 1913, 24mins A striking tale of redemption and justice, innocence and guilt, in which a deathbed confession is ne... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Bruce Calvert at March 17, 2008, 9:22 am | | Topic: The British Silent Cinema Festival, April 3rd-6th 2008 Forum: groupsrv | | http://www.britishsilentcinema.com/home.php Home & News The British Silent Cinema Festival - 2008, now in its 11th year, is a celebration of British cinema before 1930 and is organized in collaboration with the British Film Institute. The Festival aims to showcase the vast collection of films, fiction and non fiction, produced in Britain before the advent of sound, principaly from the collection at the BFI National Archive, the UK's national repository of film and television. Many of the films are 're- discoveries' and will not have been seen in public for several decades. This year the theme is Rats,Ruffians and Radicals: The Globalisation of crime and British Silent Film http://www.britishsilentcinema.com/downloads/pdfs/2008_programme.pdf THURS 3 APRIL 11.00AM AT THE FOOT OF THE SCAFFOLD Pc Hepworth Manufacturing Company Dir. Warwick Buckland GB 1913, 24mins A striking tale of redemption and justice, innocence and guilt, in which a deathbed confession is needed to save a convicted murderer from the scaf... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Guest at March 16, 2008, 8:16 am | | Topic: The British Silent Cinema Festival, April 3rd-6th 2008 Forum: groupsrv | | http://www.britishsilentcinema.com/ The British Silent Cinema Festival 2008, now in its 11th year, is a celebration of British cinema before 1930 and is organized in collaboration with the British Film Institute. The Festival aims to showcase the vast collection of films, fiction and non fiction, produced in Britain before the advent of sound, principally from the collection at the BFI National Archive, the UK's national repository of film and television. Many of the films are 'rediscoveries' and will not have been seen in public for several decades. This year the theme is Rats, Ruffians and Radicals: The Globalisation of crime and British Silent Film. Hi, is anyone who frequents these boards attending this year's event? If so & you'd like to meet up, post here or email me. I'll be attending all 4 days - it's on my doorstep - & although I've turned on quite a lot of friends & family to the joys of silents, I don't know of any other fans hereabouts that are ardent/dedicated/ demented* enough to do ... | | Read Entire Entry |
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