1999
The 2nd British Silent Cinema Weekend British 16 – 18 April
Comedy Before 1930
Broadway, Nottingham
FEATURES
The Manxman (British International Pictures, GB 1929)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Tons of Money (Walls and Henson Films, GB 1924)
Director: Frank Hall Crane
Would You Believe It! (Nettlefold Films, GB 1929)
Director: Walter Forde
SHORTS
Alice in Wonderland (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1903)
Dir: Percy Stow and Cecil M. Hepworth
As Seen Through the Telescope (G. A. Smith, GB 1900)
Dir: G. A. Smith
C.O.D. – A Mellow Drama (, GB 1929)
Dir: Lloyd T. Richards, Desmond Dickinson, Gerald Gibbs, Harcourt Templeman
Daddy’s Little Did’ums and the New Baby (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1911)
Dir: Wilfred Noy
Daisy Doodad’s Dial (Turner Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Florence Turner, To Powers
The Electric Shock (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1904)
Dir: Alf Collins
An Engagement of Convenience (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1914)
Express Delivery (Cricks, GB 1913)
Dir: Edwin J. Collins
Finding His Counterpart (Bamforth Company, GB c.1913)
Hanging Out the Clothes; or, Master, Mistress and Maid (G. A. Smith, GB 1898)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Let Me Dream Again (G. A. Smith, GB 1900)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Love and the Varsity (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Percy Stow
The Man to Beat Jack Johnson (Tyler Film Company, GB 1910)
Mary Jane’s Mishap; or, Don’t Fool with the Paraffin (G. A. Smith, GB 1903)
Max at the Music Hall ( Fr )
The Miller and the Sweep (G. A. Smith, GB 1897)
Dir: G. A. Smith
Milling the Militants; A Comic Absurdity (Clarendon Film Company, GB 1913)
Dir: Percy Stow
The Missing Legacy; or, The Story of a Brown Hat (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1906)
Dir: Alf Collins
The Mystic Mat (J. H. Martin, GB 1913)
Dir: Dave Aylott
Night Duty (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1904)
Dir: Alf Collins
A Night in the Show (The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, US 1915)
Dir: Charles Chaplin
Oh! That Cat (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1907)
Dir: Alf Collins (?)
Only Me (Educational Films Corporation, US 1929)
Dir: Henry W. George
Our New Errand Boy (Williamson Kinematograph Company, GB 1905)
Dir: James Williamson
Pimple Has One (Piccadilly, GB 1915)
Dir: Fred Evans and Joe Evans
Pimple in the Whip (Piccadilly, GB 1917)
Dir: Fred Evans and Joe Evans
The Plum Pudding Stakes [Weary Willy and Tired Tim] (British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, GB 1911)
Dir: H. O. Martinek
The Rollicking Rajah (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1913)
Sawney Sam’s Dilemma (Barker Motion Photogrpahy, GB 1914)
Stop Thief! (William Kinematograph Company, GB 1901)
Dir: James Williamson
The Tale of a Coat (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1905)
Dir: Alf Collins
[Three Maiden Ladies] Chased by a Bull (, GB c.1910)
Tilly’s Party (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1911)
Dir: Lewin Fitzhamon
Tubby’s Rest Cure (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Frank Wilson
Two-Chinned Chow (Atlas Biocraft, GB 1923)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Walter Makes a Movie (British Comedies, GB 1922)
Dir: Tom Seymour and Walter Forde
When Extremes Meet (Gaumont Film Company, GB 1905)
Dir: Alf Collins
Wife the Weaker Vessel (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, GB 1915)
Dir: Frank Wilson
EXTRACTS
Alf’s Button (Hepworth Picture Plays, GB 1920)
Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth
The Bump (Minerva Films, GB 1920)
Dir: Adrian Brunel
Champagne (British International Pictures, GB 1928)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
East is East (Turner Film Company, GB 1916)
Dir: Henry Edwards
The Farmer’s Wife (British International Pictures, GB 1928)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Gainsborough Pictures, GB 1926)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
The Rat (Gainsborough Pictures, GB 1925)
Dir: Graham Cutts
Squibs (Welsh-Pearson, GB 1921)
Dir: George Pearson
Trilby (London Film Company, GB 1914)
Dir: Harold Shaw
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Pre-Cinema Pioneer)