A Night at the Cinema 1914

A Night at the Cinema 1914:A BFI National Archive compilation

Wed 8 Oct 7.30pm      Book Now

Duration:85mins
Tickets£5

A BFI National Archive compilation of clips and shorts that would have been seen 100 years ago.

Marking the centenary of the start of World War I, this glorious miscellany of comedies, adventure films, travelogues and newsreels recreates a typical night out at the cinema in 1914.

Among the highlights of this programme of 14 shorts films are 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…
The BFI has commissioned composer and pianist Stephen Horne, one of Britain’s leading accompanists of silent film, to create a new improvised score – with abundant references to music of the period – which reflects the spirit in which the films were made.