Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator with live musical accompaniment by Meg Morley

Name: Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator with live musical accompaniment by Meg Morley
Start: 2024-09-29T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-29T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Church Street,Eccleshall,ST21 6BY,GB

Schedule

Sun Sep 29 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Church Street,Eccleshall,ST21 6BY,GB | Stafford, EN

Join us for a night of classic silent films Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator with live music by Meg Morley - it's gonna be epic!
Join us for a special screening of Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator at Holy Trinity C of E Church in Stafford, England! Experience these classic silent films with live musical accompaniment by Meg Morley . It's a unique opportunity to enjoy these timeless movies in a historic setting. Don't miss out on this unforgettable event!
These screenings will be accompanied by a live piano score, performed by BFI Southbank’s resident pianist Meg Morley. Since performing for her first silent film in 2016, Meg has quickly become one of the UK’s pre-eminent silent film accompanists, performing at various international film festivals and playing regularly at the London Cinema Museum. Meg is also somewhat of a mainstay of our Pocket Film Festival, having performed at every festival since 2017… This double-bill event is not to be missed!
Sherlock Jr.
Buster Keaton’s third feature is a breathtakingly virtuosic display of every silent comedy technique imaginable, from his own formidable physical skills to some then ground-breaking camera trickery. The detective fantasy Sherlock Jr. largely takes place inside the head of a hapless and wronged cinema projectionist (Keaton) who dreams himself into the screen only to be flummoxed by the film’s editing.
The Navigator
Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbour across the street, Betsy O’Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy’s rich father has just sold to a small country at war.