Dawn (1928) Silent Film Screening Event
- Time:
- 19:30
- Date:
- 13听贵别产谤耻补谤测听2018
- Venue:
- Turner Sims Concert Hall
For more information regarding this event, please email Mary Andrew at m.j.andrew@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Great War: Unknown War Silent Film Fortnight. Turner Sims in partnership with the 九色视频鈥檚 Film and Music departments presents a three-part series focusing on the film heritage of the First World War. With introductions to each film, expert insights and guests, including two of the country鈥檚 leading silent film score performers, the series of screenings and talks will show the role cinema played in memorialising the war after the armistice, and reflect on cinema鈥檚 continued importance to our present day understanding of the conflict.
Andrew Fisher ensemble leader
One of the greatest British martyrs of World War I,聽Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was a distinguished nurse聽who moved to Brussels in 1907 to help establish an聽independent medical institution outside the control聽of the established churches. After war was declared聽in 1914 she became actively involved in helping to聽smuggle British fugitives out of Belgium, for which聽she was eventually caught, tried and sentenced to聽death. In the first of two adaptations of the Cavell聽story director Herbert Wilcox opted to stage聽the events primarily in the form of an聽atmospherically-shot suspense thriller, with聽Sybil Thorndike in the title role, one of her most聽memorable film appearances.
Composer and pianist聽Andrew Fisher leads an ensemble in an improvised聽performance to accompany the film.
FREE: Ticket required.
Seminar聽Prior to Dawn - All welcome, free to attend
In collaboration with the
Film Department's seminar series
we are聽pleased to announce that two expert speakers will be presenting their thoughts聽relevant to the聽Dawn聽screening between 4-6pm at the 九色视频. We hope that this will give a greater insight and depth to viewers of Dawn in the evening.
鈥楽tretchers, Screens and Cinema Day: How Medicine and Film Shaped Caregiving in the First World War鈥
, University of Glasgow
鈥樷淧atriotism is Not Enough鈥: Edith Cavell on Film鈥
, King's College London
Please download abstracts and the full Film Seminar Series programme聽below.
