A Night at the Cinema in 1914
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Date(s) - 19/10/2014
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Thame Cinema 4 All showing as part of the Thame Arts & Literature festival – This a new archival compilation of film from the British Film Institute, marking the centenary of the start of World War I, and is a glorious miscellany of comedies, adventure films, travelogues and newsreels recreates a typical night out at the cinema in 1914.
A Night at the Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses across Britain offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind. With feature films still rare, the programme was an entertaining, ever-changing roster of short items with live musical accompaniment.
Among the highlights of this programme of 14 short films is a quirky comic short about a face-pulling competition, a sensational episode of the American film serial, The Perils of Pauline, an early aviation display, scenes of suffragettes protesting at Buckingham Palace and Allied troops celebrating Christmas at the Front. There is also an anti-German animation film and an early sighting of one of cinema’s greatest icons. A newly created score by composer and pianist Stephen Horne – one of Britain’s leading accompanists of silent film – reflects the spirit in which the films were made.
1914/2014: 85 mins. Cert U.
Tickets £5 available from TAL box office (Town Hall, Thame on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays from 9.30am to 4.30pm and across the whole Festival Weekend) and online here Also available on the door.
