Surprise Silent Film Programme (18)
Introduced by Kevin Brownlow
Directors: Various
USA, 1928, 1 hour, B/W, silent
Fri 5 March 4.30pm The Courtyard Hereford
Tickets: FREE
Kevin Brownlow is the renowned film historian and filmmaker who has been fascinated by the silent era since he was eleven. He brought to light many of the 'lost' gems of silent cinema notably Abel Gance's epic masterpiece Napoleon. He will be introducing a carefully chosen programme which starts with the one-minute films which were all you could see around 1900 and will reveal the astonishing advances of silent film technique up to the coming of sound. From ten-minute thrillers shot in the wilds of Hollywood to monumental epics which bankrupted their financiers, the silent era produced virtually all the cinematic devices we now take for granted. Brownlow's own 1970s film Winstanley screens earlier in the day.