At the Pictures

The BSFFS started as a sort of spin-off from the British Silent Film Festival which had run at Nottingham and then Leicester since around 1998.

We went to see Wicked: For Good in the Majestic in King’s Lynn last week.

The British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 will take place on Friday 10th April at the Cinema Museum in Kennington.

Newcastle Corporation Tramways Band 1910 (from the galleries of the International Bandsmans Enquire Within) For reasons which may or may not become clear, I have recently become interested in the Newcastle Corporation Tramways Band.

This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024.

‘It’s coming on Christmas, they’re cutting down trees.’

I lived with Mark since 2006.

Recalling the early days of cinema in Newcastle, Kinematograph Weekly noted that in 1906 there was only one film renter in the city, and that was George Henderson.[1] As I discussed in an earlier post, Henderson was already almost 50 when he entered the f…

Here is George Henderson.

‘Whilst many persons are railing against the cinema as a disseminator of disease, there is, I am glad to find, one gentleman who is putting theatre to good account as an influenza combatant.’[1] Previously I reported on some of the debates that the influe…