'Notched' 9.5mm at Kennington Bioscope - always something to learn at The Cinema Museum !

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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29 January

Some Tweets about a 9.5mm programme, introduced by Kevin Brownlow for Kennington Bioscope, at The Cinema Museum

Our next Bioscope event brings another of our popular annual & revelatory evenings with Kevin Brownlow showing rare films from his 9.5mm gauge collection with live accompaniment. Join us for more treasures Wed. 29th Jan 7.30pm @CinemaMuseum Reserve via email kenbioscope@gmail.com pic.twitter.com/4goi32i9XT

— Kennington Bioscope (@kenbioscope) January 12, 2020

Being open to inter-titled / sur-titled / sub-titled cinema :

Tous les troux dans les paroles prévenant ont leures origines de ne pas avoir utilisé des méthodes d'Internet pour vérifier les mots justes...

Merci encore, et bon soir !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 29, 2020

Thanks to all who Retweeted (or Favourited) this Tweet !

Now, here is - much later than intended, by virtue of @Tate and then @CinemaMuseum - an uncorrected proof version of #UCFF's first-thoughts about hearing that wondrous recital :https://t.co/UtaC9XSAAP https://t.co/wruXZ7GuvA

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2020

The main matter :

An excellent group of people attended to-night's screenings, from original 'notched' 9.5mm cassettes or cartridges, of films from Kevin Brownlow (or via his connections), which maybe - for some as well as The Agent ? - cocked a snook at shunning other languages or their cinemas !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2020

Film collector Chris Bird sent me this review for THE OVERLAND LIMITED (1925) written by a 17-year-old Kevin Brownlow for Amateur Cine World Nov 1955. Amazing to me that he reviewed the film 30 years after its production & last night we saw it with him 95 years after it was made! pic.twitter.com/Yi5sf1JjQe

— Michelle Facey (@best2vilmabanky) January 30, 2020

More than hinting, too, at popular Golem-esque qualities of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) and its frame ?

The Overlander (1925) could have played a trick on us, and had 'The Half-Wit' whisk all to safety [no #mh stereotype of dangerousness or destructiveness there, then ?]

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2020

And, also to be noted, in (relatively) uncharted territory - another popular trope - for the significant moments, being, respectively, the rurality and wildness of Brittany [folkloric qualities here], and the 'unconquered' hinterlands of the States#TravelHereFromTheCityInPeril

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2020

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'We have the technology' :

Which meant that detail might have been lost in both by actually 'skipping past' it, rather than - as such - 'in translation', but no matter :

The overall thrust was the same, i.e. tales of forces that - feeding into the Svengali typology or otherwise - threatened lives & safety

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2020

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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)