SILENT SHERLOCK: THREE CLASSIC CASES [With Live Musical Accompaniment]

🎥 In its first screening since the world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in 2024, the BFI National Archive’s restoration of a trio of classic Sherlock Holmes films screen at Pictureville Cinema with a live musical accompaniment by Neil Brand and Jeff Davenport.

📆Wednesday 17 September, 19.00

Before Benedict Cumberbatch, or even Basil Rathbone there was Eille Norwood, who still holds the record for playing Sherlock Holmes most times on film, back in the days of silent film. These films are showing for the first time since the world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in 2024.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series (1921–1923), so popular it went to 45 episodes and two features, was sanctioned by Conan Doyle himself, who thoroughly approved of Norwood as Holmes.

This programme, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, is a selection of three episodes, A Scandal in Bohemia, the one where Holmes falls for ‘the woman’, The Golden Pince-Nez , where we see Holmes’ deductive powers, and The Final Problem where he encounters the sinister Professor Moriarty.

This screening will feature an introduction by Bryony Dixon, Curator of Silent Film at BFI National Archive.

The screenings will feature an improvised musical accompaniment by Neil Brand, a composer, performer, writer and broadcaster who has been accompanying and composing for silent films for over 30 years.

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