Yorkshire Silent Film Information

Thursday and Friday 16 & 17th June screening (and future screening) information can be found here. Found on the website of Silent Pianist Jonathan Best.  Ticket information can be found here.

Horror Still Of The Day

Over at the Scare Me blog we are celebrating this 8th day of the Countdown To Halloween by passing the time with films from one of my all time favorite directors:  Alfred Hitchcock.  Hitchcock actually started in the motion picture business in his native Britain in the early 1920's and completed several silent films, of which the most famous--and most menacing--it The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog, loosely based the Jack The Ripper killings.  Which is where this still comes from.

Hitchcock on the set of The Lodger

The Farmer's Wife (1928)

Believe it or not, this farce was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

The ? Motorist (1906)

Also known as "The Made Motorist" it is listed on the catalogs of Science Fiction films.  It is certainly a hilarious little fantasy, that showcases some early slipstick in the Keystone Kops vein.