online: July 8th, KBTV silents about filmmaking and filmgoing

[tadao]

For our sixth live broadcast, free worldwide on YouTube, Kennington Bioscope's KBTV are showing several silent shorts with live piano scores during the broadcast from John Sweeney and Cyrus Gabrysch, along with two recorded yesterday by BBC Radio 4's Colin Sell. The loose theme this week is Filmmaking and Filmgoing, with a walk around Los Angeles before its rise to de facto world centre of movie making, Arthème Opérateur's shenanigans in a projection booth, Clara Kimball Young falling for The Picture Idol Maurice Costello, and a 1919 behind the scenes studio tour with a chance to meet Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Anita Loos, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, Mary Miles Minter, and John Emerson on the way in an episode of Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement, called 'Our Film Stars' in the uniquely surviving Dutch prints, all by kind permission of EYE Filmmuseum, with several of the items from their Jean Desmet collection.

The show will conclude with Four Square Steve, a two reel western short with Fay Wray, from a rare 9.5mm copy courtesy of film collector and documentarian Christopher Bird.

http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2020/ken ... filmgoing/

All at 19.30 BST (UTC+1) as usual, that's 2.30pm in New York (and Fort Lee!), 11.30am on the West Coast, and available to watch on replay afterwards as usual, at
https://www.youtube.com/kenningtonbioscope

[tadao]

Thanks to our wonderful audience who joined us live for some very sunny shorts streaming from a very rainy London. The replay's now active at the below address. The embed should now work for this and previous shows (YouTube live seems to default with it off...)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp86YqMb8h8

[oldposterho]

The Photoplay Magazine was particularly good to see. Thanks.