High Treason (1929)
Just a note that, following significant operational changes a-foot at the British Silent Cinema Festival, the web address www.britishsilentcinema.com is no longer active. Until such time as a new website becomes active, the Bioscope is being used as a temporary home for news about the festival. So, keep watching this space.
Merton on the road again
Following its hugely successful tour of the UK in 2008, Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns show, with accompanist Neil Brand, will be hitting the road again in Spring 2009. Merton and Brand will be giving eight shows at the Edinburgh fringe festival 8-16 August. Read more.
Silents in Shasta County
The Shasta County Arts Council of Redding, California, is holding its annual silent film festival, 24-25 October. Highlights include Metropolis, Blackmail and Peter Pan with actors reading out the intertitles to make the show more child-friendly. Read more.
A course in slapstick
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is holding a course over five Wednesday, November-December on slapstick, entitled ‘Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film’. The instructors are Ron Magliozzi, Steve Massa and Ben Model, who also provides the music. Read more.
Singing the silents
Published in paperback this month is Ken Wlaschin’s The Silent Cinema in Song, 1896-1929: An Illustrated History and Catalog of Songs Inspired by the Movies and Stars, with a List of Recordings. It is the history of the response of popular song to the silent cinema, with information on availability of recordings. Read more.
‘Til next time!
Harry Langdon, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle and Max Linder, from http://slapstick-comedy.com
The recent post on the British Film Institute’s YouTube page made me think it would be useful to provide a round-up of the major online sources where you can legitimately and freely view and sometimes download silent films. It’s important to note that most mainstream silents are not going to be found online (except illicitly) but only on DVD (if at all). Online sources are most likely to have very early and non-fiction films, either because there are no rights issues or, conversely, because it is to someone’s advantage to advertise such content for footage sales (notably the newsreel libraries).
If you follow the Online Videos link in the Categories section on the right-hand column you’ll find all the posts in the past which have discussed such sources, in one form or another, but here’s that handy overview:
American Memory
The Library of Congress’ American Memory digitised materials site remains a world beater. There are several sections on the site which include silent films, such as Edison titles, early animation, variety films and films of New York – see the Bioscope’s guide to the site for more information.
australianscreen
First-rate Australian educational resource, with 100 years of Australian feature films, documentaries, television programmes, newsreels, short films, animations, and home-movies, including much silent material. The guide written here will help locate things.
Black Film Center/Archive
A selection of downloadable early films (QuickTime) showing African-Americans, including Edison’s The Pickanninies (1894) and A Morning Bath (1896). Produced by Indiana University’s Department of Afro-American Studies.
British Film Institute
The BFI has several outlets for online video. Its Screenonline resource is an encyclopedia of British film and television, with extensive silent film materials (with strong emphasis on non-fiction) but licensing issues means that the video content itself is only accessible to schools, colleges and libraries in the UK. Free to all is its YouTube channel, which has a fascinating mix of oddities, including many silents. Its Creative Archive site makes a small number of mostly silent videos available for free download and re-use, under licence.
British Movietone News
Unlike British Pathe (see below), this freely-available British newsreel collection (covering 1929-1979) is little-known outside the commercial footage sector. However, it also contains a fascinating and varied collection of pre-1929 material, much of it the Henderson Collection of early film subjects. The post on this collection supplies a guide to some of the gems to be found there. It’s all freely-available, but prior registration is required.
British Pathe
This British newsreel collection covers the period 1896-1970, though the pre-WWI material is a peculiar mishmash of news and some fiction material, a guide to which is available here, with a guide to the silent newsreel collection itself available here. The films can all be downloaded for free, in somewhat frustratingly low resolution form, for which prior registration is required.
DG
QuickTime extracts from the films of D.W. Griffith – Biograph shorts as well as the feature films – part of the range of interconnected silent film sites maintained by David B. Pearson.
The Early Cinema
A selection of Quick Time movie clips of films made by Biograph and Edison from the 1897-1905 period, which derive from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection.
Europa Film Treasures
Rich pot pourri of mostly silent films from archives around Europe, bringing together dramas, comedies, tricks films, travel, animation, propaganda and pornography. The Bioscope report on the resource is here. The site owners, Lobster Films, promise an improved service (some have had problems with download times) soon.
Gallaudet University Video Library
Uncovering something of the history of deaf people and silent cinema has been one of the real pleasures since starting the Bioscope; this site includes several films for the deaf made during the silent period. The Bioscope post on the collection explains the history and how to find the relevant titles.
Gaumont Pathé Archives
Database of the French Gaumont, Pathé and Éclair newsreels, from 1896, searchable by keyword and date. It has large number of streamed video copies of the newsreels, for which log-in access is required.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive’s Movies section offers a huge number of freely available and downloadable movies, which we must assume are all in the public domain (under US law). The silents can mostly be traced through the keywords option under Feature Films, and range from early Chaplin to 1930s Chinese dramas. Key titles available include 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Man with a Movie Camera, Battleship Potemkin, Nosferatu, Sherlock Jr, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Open Video Project
An international repository of digitised video content designed for the research community, which includes nearly 200 early Edison titles, most of which won’t be found on the American Memory site (see above). More information on the contents is in the Bioscope posting on the collection.
Realmilitaryflix
650 freely-available films covering conflicts from the First World War to Afghanistan today. See this report on some of the remarkable First World War documentary and actuality content available on the site.
Scottish Screen Archive
Over sixty films from the silent era are available among the 1,000 or so films included on this exceptional resource from the Scottish Screen Archive, Scotland’s national film collection.
Slapstick
A range of silent comedy clips from David B. Pearson in MPEG4 format: Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Normand, Langdon, Arbuckle, Linder, Semon, Pollard, Lane…
Videos with Bibi
YouTube is awash with silent material, much of it lifted from DVDs. It’s immoral if not criminal for the most part, but it also makes so much available that most would never otherwise see, and some of what’s available is legitimately there (how is the average punter to judge?). This site provides a guide to vintage film content on YouTube, and has a silents section.
WildFilmHistory
Clips from 100 years of filming wildlife, with thirteen (so far) precious titles from the silent era, from filmmakers such as Percy Smith, Oliver Pike and Cherry Kearton. More information here.
There are many other sites with a small number of clips, and some which are only available to university users (e.g. Film and Sound Online, which has many First World War titles from the Imperial War Museum). There are a number of download sites offering public domain (US) titles, but most of these films turn up on the Internet Archive in any case. Undoubtedly others that should be listed above that I’ve forgotten or never knew about in the first place. Do let me know of other such sites and I’ll add them to this post to make it a standard reference guide.
The Bioscope has reported on the BFI’s You Tube channel before now, but this just to alert you to the fact that they have been adding many more videos to the site, a good number of them silent. There are currently 177 videos, and there isn’t time or space enough to point out all of the gems that lie therein. So I’m just going to point you to three, and then urge you to go explore for yourselves.
To start with, here’s an odd little newsreel story from 1921 which I first showed at the National Film Theatre in 1992 (ah, memories):
The peculiar event on show is the Eton Wall Game, filmed by the Topical Budget newsreel. This sport, which only the British public school system could have produced, involves the schoolboys piling up into a scrum and trying to push a ball along the wall. If they get it to the end of a wall it’s a goal, but in the traditional St Andrew’s Day game there hasn’t been a goal scored since 1909. What is of interest here is that one of the boys taking part was Eric Blair – yes, the future George Orwell is somewhere in the pile of boys, and despite many people having stared very closely at the film over the past sixteen years, no one has spotted him as yet. So now it’s your turn.
This next gem is called Old London Street Scenes. That’s what we call a supplied title in the trade. It wasn’t called that originally, someone gave it the quaint title later:
This is a piece of footage which has been shown countless times on television because of its spectacular closing shots of London traffic. It demonstrates how a fixed camera single shot of ordinary human life can nevertheless astonish. Look out in particular for the epoch-making moment when a motor car appears among the horse-drawn carriages. It dates from 1903 (we know this because of some of the London shows seen advertised on posters on the passing vehicles). The likely production company is Walturdaw.
Finally, some more sport:
This is part of the extraordinary Mitchell & Kenyon collection of Edwardian era films. Having presumably sold all of the DVDs that they are probably likely to sell of this collection, the BFI has put up quite a selection on the YouTube site. This cricket film has been given the supplied title Arthur Mold Bowling to A.N. Hornby, and was made in 1901. As the DVD commentary (courtesy of Adrian Chiles) explains, there had been a huge controversy at the time when Lancashire’s Arthur Mold was accused of having a dodgy bowling action; that is, throwing (apologies for American readers who may not appreciate how profoundly shocking this to any cricket follower). So he appeared before the cameras demonstrating his bowling style, so that viewers could judge for themselves how legitimate he was. Compared to, say Muttiah Mulitharan, you may wonder what the fuss was about (a bit sideways on, maybe, but hardly chucking). Or, for poetry lovers among you, note simply that the batsman in the nets with Mold is A.N. Hornby, subject of a famous set of lines by Francis Thompson (the poem is called ‘At Lord’s’), recalling the cricket of his youth (when, of course, the game was always better):
For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast,
And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost,
And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host
As the run stealers flicker to and fro,
To and fro:
O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago!
On which wistful note, let me just recommend once again the BFI’s YouTube site (not all silents, not all non-fiction, by the way), and look out for further posts on the stories behind one or two of the videos to be found there, in due course.
Since 1998, the British Silent Film Festival has been flying the flag for the British silent film. The Festival was established by a group of enthusiasts determined determined to overturn the traditional prejudices that had been all to evident two years before in Kevin Brownlow’s television series Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, which had been scathing of British silents. For Brownlow, the mean and badly-made British films of the silent era were not just of negligible aesthetic interest, but the idea of them had helped establish the sort of general prejudice against silent films which he had dedicated his career towards fighting.
The Festival (which located itself in Nottingham after a first year at Leicester) wanted not just to screen the best and most interesting of British silent films, but to encourage research, publication, and innovative presentation. Academic papers were welcome, but they had always to be accompanied by film clips, for which the resources of the BFI National Archive were effectively at their disposal. A speciality was made of musical accompaniment, with such regulars as Neil Brand, Phil Carli, John Sweeney and Stephen Horne. The Festival also welcomed non-fiction film quite as much as fiction.
From humble beginnings, this ever-inventive combination of festival and academic conference has built up an international reputation, and has undoubtedly done much to encourage the revival of interest in British silent film, which has found welcome outlet in DVD releases, festival screenings and television programmes. Throughout the festival has been organised and programmed by Bryony Dixon and Laraine Porter, always on a shoestring, and frequently on half a shoestring. Political events, the outcome of which is still uncertain, have cast a cloud over the future of the Festival – I’ll report more on this once the dust has settled – but meanwhile in September the BFI Southbank (the National Film Theatre as was) is putting on a season of highlights from the Festival’s past.
Creatively entitled The Best of the British Silent Film Festival, this is the programme:
26 September 18.20
The Olympic Games on Film 1900-1924
Luke McKernan present a programme of archive film on the early Olympic Games, from chronophotographs of American athletes at the Paris Games of 1924, to Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell of Chariots of Fire fame at the Paris Games of 1924. The programme has a special focus on the London Games of 1908.26 September 20.40
The Ware Case (1928)
Dynamic and surprisingly cinematic adaptation of a famous stage courtroom drama. Directed by Manning Haynes, with Stewart Rome, Betty Carter, Ian Fleming. Adapted by Lydia Hayward, one of many female screenwriters now beginning to be rediscovered as a result of the Festival’s interest in women film-makers.27 September 16.00
When All Films Were Short
Lucky-dip programme of short films – quirky, funny, macabre, sensational, persuasive – of the kind that the Festival has made a special point of championing.27 September 18.45
The Battle of the Somme (1916)
Special preview screening of the Imperial War Museum’s new restoration of the outstanding feature-length ‘documentary’ of the First World War, filmed by Geoffrey Malins and J.B. MacDowell and edited by Charles Urban. The music will be played by Stephen Horne and Martin Pyne, recreating the original musical suggestions from the film’s 1916 screening.27 September 20.40
The Lure of Crooning Water (1920)
The quintessential British pastoral film, and example of the sort of rediscovery which as helped demonstrate that there was a strengthening tradition of filmic storytelling in the silent period concerned with the British landscape. Directed by Arthur Rooke, with Guy Newall and Ivy Duke.28 September 16.00
True Crime on Film
An illustrated history of true crime in film, featuring execution films, terrorists and assassins, murderers and embezzlers, with a particular focus on the stories of Charles Peace (William Haggar’s 1905 The Life of Charles Peace is illustrated above) and Thomas Goudie. Presented by Michael Eaton, Vanessa Toulmin and Bryony Dixon.28 September 18.20
The Triumph of the Rat (1927)
Ivor Novello, most popular British star of the 1920s, in the second of the hugely popular Rat trilogy, directed by Graham Cutts.28 September 20.40
The First Born (1928)
Miles Mander’s fluid, cinematic masterpiece (illustrated at top of post), on the double-standards of the English upper classes, has emerged from obscurity to enjoy increasing acclaim as one of the finest of British silents. Starring Mander and Madeleine Carroll.
Members’ priority postal booking opens 4 August; members’ priority online and phone booking opens 11 August; public booking opens 15 August. Hope to see some of you there.
Lon Chaney in London After Midnight
When the news first starting buzzing across the wires that lost scenes from Metropolis has been discovered, many old hands in the film world suspected a hoax. There have been so many such bogus announcements, perpetrated by the naive, the over-optimistic, and – increasingly – the fraudulent. It is so easy to create a narrative, a plausible history bolstered up with links, pictures and air of expert knowledge, and then to have such rumours speed around the world, finding out the credulous.
The amazing thing about Metropolis, and the discovery last year of Bardelys the Magnificent, is that the rumours were true – the lost films had indeed been found. But the lost silent film that is most subject to fantasies of discovery, and which indeed probably comes at the top of many silent film buffs’ wish list of films that they would love to see discover, is London After Midnight. And today the rumours have gone flying around following a rambling but insistent account on a horror film forum that the 1927 Lon Chaney horror film had been found (the argument is that MGM had been hiding it under its alternative release title, The Hypnotist). Of course it hadn’t, as should be obvious to anyone with grain of sense who reads it – it’s riddled with naiveties and fantasies.
The last known print of London After Midnight is believed to have been destroyed in a vault fire at MGM in 1967. Ever since then the rumours have circulated that a print had survived somehow: that a 16mm copy was in secret circulation, that one or other of the renowned collectors was sitting on a print (not daring to announce its existence for fear of losing it to rights-holders MGM), that MGM itself was sitting on material that for assorted mysterious reasons it had chosen to suppress. Or, in the case of this most recent claim, that MGM was somehow unaware of what was lying on its own shelves.
This basic history you can get from Michael Gebert’s London After Midnight Myths pages (though beware that the first few pages do their best to tease the unsuspecting with ‘evidence’ that might indicate the film does exist). It is true that you can find London After Midnight on the TCM schedules every now and then, and on DVD accompanying Chaney’s The Unknown, but this is a 45-minute compilation by Rick Schmidlin of extant stills, recreating therefore what the film looked like. Until a print turns up one day to expose all the so-called experts to ridicule – who knows, as Metropolis has shown, it might be in South America – the Schmidlin recreation is the nearest to this most celebrated of all lost silent films that we have.
For more on lost films, see Moving Image Collections’ Lost Films list, the Deutsche Kinematek’s Lost Films wiki and Silent Era’s Presumed Lost section. And continue to dream.
The Bioscope is naturally delighted to record the release of Delhi-based K.M. Madhusudhanan‘s feature film Bioscope. The film’s subject is silent film in India. Set in Kerala, it tells of Diwakaran, who in the early years of the twentieth century encounters the Bioscope (a film projector), being operated by a Frenchman. He purchases the machines and tours local villages with his films, but he is beset by problems: practical, social and familial, as modernity clashes with tradition. Madhusudhanan says that his hero is based on a real figure, Varunni Joseph, who ran a Bioscope shows in Kerala in 1907.
Bioscope received its world premiere last week. It is produced by the National Film Development Corporation Ltd., India, it’s 94mins long, and in Malayalam and Tamil, with English subtitles. The film’s website has interesting background information on early film in India and assorted production stills. This article from ExpressIndia.com describes the film and its intentions:
Reel Beginnings
A filmmaker goes in search of the first flicker of cinema in Kerala
Anushree Majumdar
Flickering on a white sheet stretched across the wall, the image of a train entering the platform emitted a collective gasp. In 1906, the unsuspecting villagers at Thrissur Pooram in Kerala, who’d bought a ticket to the bioscope show, couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Surely this was the work of the devil. Instead, it was the work of man — the advent of cinema in India. This fascination with cinema and images is what Delhi-based filmmaker K.M. Madhusudhanan has lyrically portrayed in his first feature film, suitably titled Bioscope.
The film saw its worldwide premiere at the Osian’s Cine Fan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema last week and has been awarded the NETPAC Jury Award for “crystallising a turning point in a country’s colonial past with meditative images and a strong metaphor evocative of cinema’s magical powers”.
As an artist, photographer and filmmaker, it was only natural that Madhusudhanan strung together a historical narrative with images that would embody the wonder that is the cinematic experience. “I wanted to show the curiosity of the human gaze through the film. The appearance of the bioscope in Kerala was something that drew me even closer to the subject,” says Madhusudhanan, who spent his formative years in Kerala before moving to Vadodara to study printmaking.
Set in the first decade of the 20th century in Kerala, Bioscope traces the life of Diwakaran, whose life is completely altered after his first brush with the bioscope and moving images. He buys the device from a Frenchman who ran bioscope shows and decides to take the instrument and its wondrous images to nearby villages. But suspicion, superstition and the lack of family support make it difficult for Diwakaran to fulfil his purpose. “I started to work on a project about silent films and early cinema. My research brought me to that time in history when Kerala had its first bioscope show and I found my story emerge from there,” says Madhusudhanan who is also painting an entire series on silent films as well. The entire series consists of 35 paintings in which film reels contain hazy images, and cameras share space with the artist’s imagination.
Funded by the NFDC, the film will soon head to various international festivals and by December, the sequel to the film will go on floor. “Bioscope is the first part of a trilogy. The second part is titled Kannadi Kottaka (Mirror Cinema Hall) and is set in contemporary Kerala. It is about a movie house and three people who are connected to it,” says Madhusudhanan.
It’s getting hard to keep up with the mini-rush of Indian films and books which are taking silent cinema as a theme and the bioscope (the sometime Indian name for a cinema) as redolent term. Probably calls for a round-up post on the subject some time soon.
A new book on the master French animator, Emile Cohl, is due to be published in France on 20 August. The publication of Emile Cohl: L’inventeur du dessin animé, written by Pierre-Courtet Cohl (the filmmaker’s grandson) and Bernard Génin, coincides with the centenary of Cohl’s best-known film, Fantasmagorie, generally held to be the first fully animated film. The book is both a biography and a comprehensive study of his films, but what is most exciting is that it will come with a two-disc DVD, produced by Gaumont-Pathé Archives, which is said to include almost all of his surviving films (around thirty-seven are thought to survive).
One cannot judge as yet whether the book will surpass the exceptional 1990 biography by Donald Crafton, which for the multi-lingually-challenged such as myself holds the inestimable advantage of being in English, but the DVDs will bring a great number of Cohl’s films out of the archives and into the public consciousness for the first time in nigh on a century (as an earlier post notes, very few Cohl films are currently publicly available). The book also has 600 illustrations, which should be more than an attraction in itself.
Book and DVDs are to be published by Omniscience, which has information on book, author and subject on its site (in French), but not on the DVD’s precise contents.
Update: See comments for more DVD information.
The Sport of the Gods
The US Postal Service has issued a series of stamps celebrating African-American performers in early (i.e. pre-1950) films. The titles chosen are each represented by posters and include the 1921 all-black cast The Sport of the Gods, directed by Henry J. Vernot and starring Elizabeth Boyer and Edward R. Abrams. Read more.
Shakespeare goes Hollywood
Director Scott Palmer and the theatrical company Bag & Baggage Productions are putting on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that is set in the world of silent-era Hollywood. Chaplin, Lloyd, Valentino, Theda Bara and Louise Brooks are all referenced, while Puck echoes Murnau’s Nosferatu. The production is being put on for Oregon State University’s Bard in the Quad at Corvallis. Read more.
Telegu silent once more
Telugu comedy actor Brahmanandam, who is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for having appeared in the most number of films in a single language, is to star in a silent film, which is reckoned will be the first Indian silent commercial feature film since the classic Pushpak. The film, Brahmanandam Drama Company, is a Telegu remake of the 2006 Hindi film Bhagam Bhag. Read more.
‘Til next time!
The programme for Strade del Cinema, the festival of silent film and live music held annually at Aosta, Italy, has been published. This year’s festival takes place 10-17 August. The major strand is the Young European Musicians Contest, which gives the opportunity to young musicians to accompany silent films in competition, with the winner to be awarded 1500 Euros to score a silent film from the National Museum of Cinema of Turin. Another feature is the SilentARTmovies Contest, which is inviting contributions from artists in a variety of media on the theme of ‘passion in silent movies’.
Here’s the main programme:
AUGUST 10
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM
Opening event in collaboration with AOSTACLASSICA
50th anniversary of I soliti ignoti, by Mario Monicelli, Italy 1958
with Stefano Della Casa and the SFOM orchestraAUGUST 11
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM
YOUNG EUROPEAN MUSICIANS CONTESTRetrospettiva Buster Keaton 2
Haunted House, music by Federico Ferrandina
USA, febbraio 1921, Distribuzione: Metro Pictures,, Produttore: Joseph
M.Schenck, Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin
Lessley; Cast: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox, Eddie Cline.Blacksmith, music by Eri Kozaki
USA, 21 luglio 1922, Distribuzione: First National, Produttore: Joseph M.
Schenck, Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Mal St. Clair, Fotografia, Elgin
Lessley; Cast: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox.AUGUST 12
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM
YOUNG EUROPEAN MUSICIANS CONTESTRetrospettiva Buster Keaton 2
The high Sign, music by Rumur Hang
USA, aprile 1921, Distribuzione: Metro Pictures, Produttore: Joseph M.Schenck,
Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin Lessley;
Cast: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett Zane, Al St John.Convict 13, music by Untel
USA, aprile 1920, Distribuzione: Metro Pictures, Produttore: Joseph M.Schenck,
Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin Lessley;
Cast: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton.AUGUST 13
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM
YOUNG EUROPEAN MUSICIANS CONTESTRetrospettiva Buster Keaton 2
Cops, music by Mathieu Hourteillan
USA, marzo 1922, Distribuzione: First National, Produttore: Joseph M.Schenck,
Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin Lessley; Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Eddie Cline.The boat, music by Benjamin Constant
USA, novembre 1922, Distribuzione: First National, Produttore: Joseph
M.Schenck, Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin
Lessley; Cast: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Eddie Cline.AUGUST 14
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM
YOUNG EUROPEAN MUSICIANS CONTESTRetrospettiva Buster Keaton 2
The playhouse, music by Davide Longo
USA, ottobre 1921, Distribuzione: First National, Produttore: Joseph M.Schenck,
Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin Lessley; Cast:
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox.The Frozen North, musicato da Phi 4
USA, agosto 1922, Distribuzione: Associated-First National, Produttore: Joseph
M.Schenck, Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin
Lessley; Cast: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox.AUGUST 15
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM
YOUNG EUROPEAN MUSICIANS CONTESTRetrospettiva Buster Keaton 2
Daydreams, music by La Fabrique Illuminée
USA, novembre 1922, Distribuzione: First National, Produttore: Joseph
M.Schenck, Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin
Lessley; Cast: Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts, Eddie Cline.One week, music by Martino Pini/Emmanuele Pella
U.S.A., 1920, diretto da Edward F. Cline e Buster Keaton; sceneggiatura di Edward F. Cline e Buster Keaton; con Buster Keaton e Sybil Seely; b/n; durata 19′.ENGLISH PUB – 11.30 PM
The Electric House, music by Luca Bertinaria e Emmanuele Pramotton
USA, ottobre 1922, Distribuzione: Associated-First National, Produttore: Joseph
M.Schenck, Regia e soggetto: Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline, Fotografia, Elgin
Lessley; Cast: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox.AUGUST 16
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM – EVENTS
IN COLLABORATION WITH MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI TORINO
Events: Tribute to Segundo de Chomon
Le spectre rouge
La guerra e il sogno di Momi e due altri cortometraggi Lulù
Music by Stéphan Oliva DuoAUGUST 17
ROMAN THEATRE – 9.30 PM – EVENTS
Events: F.W. Murnau
Nosferatu
Music by Daniele di BonaventuraNosferatu
USA, 1922, 80 min; Regia, F.W. Murnau; Sceneggiatura, Henrik Galeen; Fotografia, F.A. Wagner, Cast: Max Schreck (Graf Orlok), Gustav von Wangenheim (Hutter), Greta Schröder (Ellen Hutter, sein Frau)
Further details are to be found on the festival’s somewhat confusing website (there are blank pages, and – currently – films listed under the ‘Booking’ section which are films featured in last year’s festival).
The Bioscope 