Festival Theatre presents: A Night at the Cinema 1914

Will Pickvance recreates a typical night out at the cinema in 1914, accompanying this glorious miscellany of comedies, adventure films, travelogues, and newsreels. 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…