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A Woman Redeemed 7.30pm, 14 June 2012 Cinema Museum, Lambeth, London On the bill tonight is a programme of little-seen British silent films, including a new print of the British crime film A Woman Redeemed (Sinclair Hill, 1927), starring Brian Aherne and Joan Lockton, with musical accompaniment fro...

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Beggars of Life 4pm, 29 April 2012 Barbican Centre, London William Wellman's drama was one of the first sympathetic portrayals of life on the run to emerge from Hollywood. Stars Wallace Beery with Louise Brooks in an outstanding performance as a cross-dressing criminal. With live accompaniment by N...

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Cryer on Arbuckle, with special guest David Yallop Cinema Museum Mon 30 April 2012 @ 19:30 British comedy writer Barry Cryer presents an affectionate and well-illustrated portrait of the life of director and comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Cryer will be joined on stage by world-renowned investiga...

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The Titanic Centenary, featuring “The Ill-fated Titanic” (1912) Cinema Museum Sun 15 April 2012 @ 16:00 To commemorate the sinking of the RMS Titanic on this very day a hundred years ago, film historian Luke McKernan presents films and extracts, fiction and non-fiction, concentrating particularly o...

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Arrgh! Please God, no!
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Dedec Valde thinks he is actually imitating Charlie Chaplin, he just looks and acts more like Jimmy Aubrey, so this has to come down to some sort of points off for not even looking like the person you're supposedly ripping off. What was that about pisspoor Chaplin impersonations, Richard? Wid's Dai...

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Well worth a read: http://www.archive.org/details/storylibertyloan00stcl" target="_blank

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Sunday, 6 February, 16:00 BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY (1927), MANHATTA (1921) Barbican Centre, London Walter Ruttmann’s definitive ‘city symphony’ is a lyrical dawn to dusk portrait of Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Divided into five movements, Ruttmann uses montage, cutting and editing to captu...

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Saturday, 19 February, 11am THE TRAGIC LAUNCH OF HMS ALBION BFI Southbank, London On 21 June 1898 the launch of the warship HMS Albion at Blackwall in London, attended by over 30,000 spectators, became one of the worst peacetime disasters in Thames history. The event was filmed by both RW Paul and ...

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Thursday, 23 June April, 1930-2230 THE SILENT WESTERN: JOHN OLIVER Cinema Museum, Lambeth, London, UK BFI archivist John Oliver presents a programme of classic silent Westerns, including THE COVERED WAGON (1923) and Tom Mix in THE FOREMAN OF BAR Z (1915). Directed by James Cruze, The Covered Wagon ...

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Thursday, 14 April, 1930-2200 THOSE SURPRISING SILENTS: KEVIN BROWNLOW Cinema Museum, Lambeth, London, UK Recipient of an honorary Oscar in 2010, renowned film historian Kevin Brownlow explains and demonstrates the rapid progression of film techniques during the silent era, from films lasting a min...

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Well the demand is there for these fabulous t-shirts, even if the supply is lacking. Count me in. But for those of us outside the US, can I recommend Brian sets up a stall on Etsy or somesuch website so he can take orders from all around the world.

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The BFI National Archive at Berkhamsted has in its possession Bebe's scrapbooks covering her career from her initial appearance in features for de Mille through to her stardom on radio, television and theatre in Britain. These contain newspaper cuttings, telegrams, fan letters, photographs and a sma...

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Musta borrowed the time machine belonging to the old lady with the cellphone ...

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Another outsider's perspective on the mid-Twenties UK film industry. As Carl Laemmle was railing against Brit actors for having the audacity to shave off their moustaches in order to pass themselves off as Americans, Marcus Loew was observing the behaviour of British exhibitors ... LOEW FINDS ENGLAN...

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LAEMMLE TALKS ON EUROPEAN CONDITIONS By Chester J. Smith Motion Picture News 21 October 1922, p2005 CARL LAEMMLE, president of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, just back from a trip to Europe where he went to investigate conditions in general, has no fear of an imminent menace to the indus...

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Virtually the entire run of Variety magazine from 1906 onwards is now available to view online: http://www.varietyultimate.com/index.asp?. The bad news is that an annual subscription to the archive will set you back $600. Alternatively you can access 50 issues over the course of a month for $60. Odd...

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HITCHCOCK'S SILENTS Alfred Hitchcock's landmark silent films with live music accompaniment Barbican Centre, London 19 September 16.00pm THE LODGER (1926) This performance is accompanied by six piece ensemble Harmonie Band, which has been in the vanguard of silent film music since its formation in 1...

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21 September 18.20pm BURLESQUE, SLAPSTICK & THE AVANT GARDE British Film Institute Dr Alex Clayton, Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of Bristol, looks at how typical aspects of slapstick and comic burlesque – lack of narrative logic, formal tricks such as stop-motion, a play on speed - were es...

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Wednesday 22 September, 1930-2130 CHAPLIN'S LONDON IN HOLLYWOOD Cinema Museum, Lambeth, London, UK A hundred years ago on this very day, Charlie Chaplin left England for America. Fim historian David Trigg marks this event with a screening of THE IMMIGRANT (1917) and shows, with extracts from his oth...

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A 93-minute version of For the Term of His Natural Life is available to view at the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/ForTheTe ... aturalLife

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Thank you for a brilliant report.

Incidentally, does anyone know who precisely runs the festival? Who are the individuals behind "Silent Film Australia Ltd"? There's no information to this effect on the festival website.

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This is an incredibly exciting project. But aside from David Pierce's initial postings to archive.org, when does the rest of this material start becoming available?

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http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=4613506&iSaleNo=18245&iSaleSectionNo=1# Lot No: 1025 A Buster Keaton group of manuscripts from "The Buster Keaton Show," 1950 Six sets of typed documents relating to the comedian's short-...

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May I also throw in a good word for http://www.liveauctioneers.com. It's an aggregator site for some of the traditional auction houses, many of whom don't trade on eBay. Admittedly it's rare to find silent comedy material there but sometimes they do turn up interesting long-forgotten items from dece...

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Well worth investigating are the chapters on the 1910s and the 1920s in the new book, George Lucas's Blockbusting . The book looks in detail at the biggest movies of every decade adjusted for inflation so as to provide an accurate comparison of box office over the years. Then check out the blog writ...

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Weird or what? Lousie Brooks, in a handwritten letter from 1983, claims that Roddy MacDowall of all people was the person, who alongside Eleanor Keaton, discovered Buster's body on the night he died. The letter is currently up for auction and can be viewed at http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7017...

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He may not measure up to Richard's exacting standards, but let's give Paul Merton his due. Anybody who is willing to drop £20K of his own money to pay for a new silent film score is all right in my book, as is someone prepared to leverage his vast popularity as a TV comic in the UK as a means to int...

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LONDON, UK 14 June: A WOMAN REDEEMED (1927)

LONDON, UK 29 April: BEGGARS OF LIFE (1928)

LONDON, UK April 30: CRYER ON ARBUCKLE, W/- DAVID YALLOP

LONDON, UK April 15: THE ILL-FATED TITANIC (1912)

Re: Criterion Blu Ray/DVD for the Gold Rush

Re: The Al Joy-less street

Ted Healy & His Stooges

Re: Farrelly Bros Three Stooges Movie

Re: Liberty Bond Rally films

London, England: BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY (1927)

London, England: THE TRAGIC LAUNCH OF HMS ALBION (1898)

London, England: THE COVERED WAGON (1923), EARLY WESTERNS

London, England: KEVIN BROWNLOW'S THOSE SURPRISING SILENTS

Variety magazine archive

London, England: HITCHCOCK'S SILENTS 9/19, 10/3, 10/31

London, England: BURLESQUE, SLAPSTICK & THE AVANT GARDE

London, England: CHAPLIN'S LONDON IN HOLLYWOOD 9/22

The Buster Keaton Show

Louise Brooks on Buster Keaton