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Here follows a tweet thread of the events in our upcoming, long-awaited SILENT LAUGHTER WEEKEND 2022!! Book your full passes, one-day passes & other tickets here + get your vegan dinner tickets purchased (if insufficient sold, dinner will be cancelled!) tickettailor.com/events/kenning…

The first film kicking us off in style 10am Saturday morning 23rd April in our weekend programme @CinemaMuseum is a @BFI 35mm print of WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? (1929), starring, written & dir. by Walter Forde, premier British screen comedian of the ‘20’s. Author Geoff Brown intro’s.

11.40 In a recorded presentation, Steve Massa will give a guided tour through Roscoe Arbuckle’s career & works, complete w/generous selections of film clips & rare photographs. The closer for the show is a screening of HIS WIFE’S MISTAKE (1916), an overlooked gem shot in Fort Lee

2pm Film director & editor Chris Bird introduces a 16mm print of Mary Pickford’s final silent film, MY BEST GIRL (1927) directed by Sam Taylor & co-starring Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers (the two would later marry), photographed by Charles Rosher who shot Mary’s pictures for ten years

At 3.40pm, Sat. 23rd April, we have a fabulous assortment of (ALMOST) LOST LAUGHS!
these are silent comedies which have recently been recovered – or partly recovered – thanks to the efforts of film buffs & archives worldwide. Charleys Bowers & Chase, Edward Everett Horton & more!

5.30pm sees the appearance of THE STRONG MAN (1926) starring Harry Langdon. Years before Chaplin’s City Lights, Langdon featured a blind heroine (Priscilla Bonner) in his most successful film, dir. by Frank Capra. Matthew Ross of @The_LostLaugh intro’s & much laughter follows!!😂

After dinner, at 8pm, we’ll marvel, chortle and gasp at Harold Lloyd’s most famous film, SAFETY LAST (1923) directed by Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, introduced by film collector, director & editor, Chris Bird. All films, all day w/live music @CinemaMuseum 🎟tickettailor.com/events/kenning…

Sunday 24th April 10am - we start off with THE WRIGHT IDEA (1928) on 16mm. Unseen since its original release, this is the premiere of the only surviving print! It stars Johnny Hines, a successful light comedian throughout the 1920’s, in his last silent film, intro’d by Chris Bird

At 11.40am we’ll be treated to a bevy of Billy Bevan films when Dave Glass presents a bonanza of shorts starring the Australian star of the Mack Sennett Studios. Daves Glass & Wyatt have produced a DVD of restored films, ‘Billy Bevan - Silent Comedian’, which they’ll be plugging!

After lunch, you’ll be glad of the fortification, ‘cos at 2pm you’re going to use up an awful lot of energy shaking with laughter at WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES (1926), a Universal Jewel & a gem of a comedy picture starring brilliant Reginald Denny! Read up: silentlondon.co.uk/2022/04/07/reg…

3.40pm 24th April @CinemaMuseum Join us & Matthew Ross in conversation with special guest Sara Lupino Lane, granddaughter of LUPINO LANE! Newly restored films will include JOYLAND (1929), plus never-before-seen ‘20’s Hollywood home movies & photos courtesy of our special guest.

At 5.20pm our own Michelle Facey @best2vilmabanky introduces THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE (1924) & talks about two of her favourite screen people, director of the film, Ernst Lubitsch & its star, Marie Prevost! See Papa’s revolutionary sex comedy, his first for Warner Bros., w/#livemusic

At 8pm, taking us up to the finish line, there can be no finer finale than one spent with Laurel & Hardy in the company of @NeilKBrand who brings us a fully illustrated show, with stills, clips & Neil’s superlative piano accompaniment, culminating in a screening of LIBERTY (1929)

So that’s your lot for the SILENT LAUGHTER WEEKEND 2022… and, WOW!, it’s a hell of a lot!!! Comedy gold, two days running @CinemaMuseum honestly, you can’t go wrong!!🤣 Book your full passes/tickets/dinner for Sat/Sun 23/24 April, NOW!!👍🏻📽🎞🎹🍽🍻🍷☕️🎟🔜tickettailor.com/events/kenning…