Nell Shipman was a true pioneer, and not just in screen nudity.A movie star who started writing her own scenarios, she wound up starring, writing, directing, producing and training the animals for her wilderness epics, climaxing with Alaskan Gold Rush adventure The Grub-Stake in 1923. Genuinely suspenseful and exciting, this northern western is also by turns silly, romantic, spectacular and moving: the total entertainment package.Unfortunately, Shipman and her co-director fell afoul of the industry when she denounced distributors who recut one of her previous films, and they found themselves frozen out of the business. Their little Spokane-based studio, with its own private zoo, moved to Idaho but ceased production in 1926.But for a while there they were really trailblazing. Shipman begins The Grub-Stake as a laundress / artist's model, appearing swathed in gauze as she poses for eager sketchers. This seems like a cheeky reference to one of her previous claims to fame,...
- 3/30/2017
- MUBI
Going live at the Hippfest launch Photo: Lisa Evans
The full programme for Hippfest 2016 was revealed today at the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness, Scotland's oldest purpose-built cinema. There was music from Herschel-36 and Jane Gardner, who are composing new live scores for festival films, and it was announced that the opening film will be 1930 Soviet classic Earth, rarely seen but widely considered to be one of the best films ever made.
Wunder Der Schöpfung
The festival, which secured funding in November, is the country's only event dedicated entirely to silent film. It will close with the original Stella Dallas, starring Belle Bennett, which was later reworked as a vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck. Also in the programme are a Laurel and Hardy triple bill, a Buster Keaton short whose ending has only just been discovered after being lost for decades, and 1925 German documentary Wunder Der Schöpfung (literally 'the miracle of creation'...
The full programme for Hippfest 2016 was revealed today at the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness, Scotland's oldest purpose-built cinema. There was music from Herschel-36 and Jane Gardner, who are composing new live scores for festival films, and it was announced that the opening film will be 1930 Soviet classic Earth, rarely seen but widely considered to be one of the best films ever made.
Wunder Der Schöpfung
The festival, which secured funding in November, is the country's only event dedicated entirely to silent film. It will close with the original Stella Dallas, starring Belle Bennett, which was later reworked as a vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck. Also in the programme are a Laurel and Hardy triple bill, a Buster Keaton short whose ending has only just been discovered after being lost for decades, and 1925 German documentary Wunder Der Schöpfung (literally 'the miracle of creation'...
- 2/9/2016
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Scotland's only silent film festival was born of the determination of a Bo'ness local to bring the big screen to his doorstep
Festival name: Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema
Location: Bo'ness, Falkirk
Website: www.hippfest.co.uk
Dates: Annually, mid-March
About: With the best will in the world, Bo'ness seems an unlikely venue for a film festival, even something as quaint-sounding as a silent movie festival. But Bo'ness, a town with a population of about 14,500, perched on the banks of the Firth of Forth between Edinburgh and Falkiri, is the home of Scotland's only silent film festival. And it's all in honour of a local hero.
Louis Dickson, an electrical engineer turned cameraman, was a big noise in the early Scottish film business, grandly named the official "Kinematographer" of the Scottish National Exhibition in 1908. While he went on to take other official positions within the national film industry, Dickson's heart...
Festival name: Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema
Location: Bo'ness, Falkirk
Website: www.hippfest.co.uk
Dates: Annually, mid-March
About: With the best will in the world, Bo'ness seems an unlikely venue for a film festival, even something as quaint-sounding as a silent movie festival. But Bo'ness, a town with a population of about 14,500, perched on the banks of the Firth of Forth between Edinburgh and Falkiri, is the home of Scotland's only silent film festival. And it's all in honour of a local hero.
Louis Dickson, an electrical engineer turned cameraman, was a big noise in the early Scottish film business, grandly named the official "Kinematographer" of the Scottish National Exhibition in 1908. While he went on to take other official positions within the national film industry, Dickson's heart...
- 3/18/2014
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Lucky Star is the Friday night gala. The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Film has begun in Bo'ness, West Lothian, and celebrates its fourth edition with a gala screening of Frank Borzage's Lucky Star tonight, featuring live accompaniment by Neil Brand.
Other highlights include a Jeely Jar Saturday morning screening (March 15) featuring Buster Keaton’s The Blacksmith (showing for the first time with half a reel of lost footage) alongside two unsung comedy heroes of the silent screen- the anarchic and inventive Charley Bowers and master of the comedy-of-embarrassment Charley Chase.
They will also host the first ever Scottish performance by The Aljoscha Zimmermann Ensemble with Nosferatu director F.W Murnau’s influential masterpiece of German cinema Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) (March 15)
Plus Jane Gardner has created and will perform an exclusive new score for Yasujirô Ozu’s take on the American gangster genre Dragnet Girl (Hijôsen No Onna) (March 15). Featuring good-time gals,...
Other highlights include a Jeely Jar Saturday morning screening (March 15) featuring Buster Keaton’s The Blacksmith (showing for the first time with half a reel of lost footage) alongside two unsung comedy heroes of the silent screen- the anarchic and inventive Charley Bowers and master of the comedy-of-embarrassment Charley Chase.
They will also host the first ever Scottish performance by The Aljoscha Zimmermann Ensemble with Nosferatu director F.W Murnau’s influential masterpiece of German cinema Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) (March 15)
Plus Jane Gardner has created and will perform an exclusive new score for Yasujirô Ozu’s take on the American gangster genre Dragnet Girl (Hijôsen No Onna) (March 15). Featuring good-time gals,...
- 3/14/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Goose Woman (1925), directed by Clarence Brown, just screened at the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, accompanied by one of the finest and most remarkable live scores it's ever been my privilege to experience. Jane Gardner's soundtrack, incorporating piano, violin and drums, but also baby cries and a musical saw, was so good I wondered if it might be causing me to overrate the movie, in essence a moderately soapy melodrama, but the fact that no less a figure than Kevin Brownlow, who rediscovered and restored the lost film and supplied the print for the screening, considers it one of his very favorites, reassures me that I haven't taken leave of my critical faculties in a musical rapture.
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
- 3/21/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
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