1998
The 1st British Silent Film Festival 25 – 26 April
The Forgotten Cinema British Film Before 1930
Phoenix Arts, Leicester
FEATURES
Comradeship [Comrades in Arms] (Stoll Film Company, GB 1919)
Director: Maurice Elvey
The Ring (British International Pictures, GB 1927)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (Welsh-Pearson, GB 1922)
Director: George Pearson
SHORTS
Attack on a Chinese Mission – Bluejackets to the Rescue (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1900)
Dir: James Williamson
Blood and Bosh (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Hay Plumb
Cast: Jack Hulcup, Chrissie White, Hay Plumb, Alma Taylor
A Breach of Promise Case (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1908)
C.O.D. – A Mellow Drama (GB 1929)
Dir: Lloyd T. Richards, Desmond Dickinson, Gerald Gibbs, Harcourt Templeman
The Countryman and the Cinematograph (Paul’s Animatograph Works, GB 1901)
Dir: R. W. Paul
Crossing the Great Sagrada (GB 1924)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
The Dog Outwits the Kidnappers (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1908)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
Fire! (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1901)
Dir: James Williamson
Jack Spratt’s Parrot Gets His Own Back (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Toby Cooper
Kate Purloins The Wedding Presents [from ‘Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate’ series] (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1912)
Dir: Charles Raymond
Lieutenant Lily and the Splodge of Opium (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Hay Plumb
The Man to Beat Jack Johnson (Tyler Film Company, GB 1910)
The Man Who Came Back (Regent Pictures, GB c.1915)
Pimple’s Battle of Waterloo (Phoenix Film Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Fred Evans
Rescued by Rover (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1905)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil M. Hepworth
Richard III (Co-Operative Cinematograph Company, GB 1911)
Dir: Frank R. Benson
The Unclean World (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1903)
Dir: Percy Stow
Which Switch [‘Q-riosities, No. 12’] (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1922)
Dir: Gaton Quiribet
A Wild Goose Chase (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1908)
Dir: Percy Stow
EXTRACTS (Features)
The Lure of Drink (Barker Motion Photography, GB 1915)
Dir: A. E. Coleby