From Lumière to Speedy: Silent Cinema with Live Organ and Paul Merton
Join us for a special anniversary celebration of silent cinema marking 130 years since film history began within these very walls. In 1896, the Lumière brothers brought their cinematograph to Regent Street, presenting the first moving pictures ever screened to a paying audience in the UK. This unique event looks back to that extraordinary moment with an evening of silent film curated and presented live by Paul Merton, who will be in attendance to introduce and reflect on the films as they unfold. The programme begins with a selection of early short films and classic silent comedies, capturing cinema in its infancy — playful, inventive, and endlessly inventive. These pre-interval films will be accompanied live on the cinema’s historic organ, recreating the atmosphere of early film exhibition. After a short interval, the evening culminates with a full screening of Speedy (1928), Harold Lloyd’s exuberant silent feature, shown with a score by the legendary composer Carl Davis. An immersive journey from cinema’s earliest experiments to one of the great masterpieces of the silent era, this is a rare opportunity to experience silent film as it was originally intended — live, communal, and full of wonder.ComedyPT1H25MTBC2026-02-13Harold Lloyd
Ann Christy
Bert Woodruff
Ted Wilde
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From Lumière to Speedy: Silent Cinema with Live Organ and Paul Merton"From Lumière to Speedy: Silent Cinema with Live Organ and Paul Merton"Showtimes
February 13, 7:30 pm
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