The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema Where movies and music come alive! Wednesday 13th March – Sunday 17th March 2013
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Festival of 13-17 MARCH 2013 MARCH 13-17
ADMIT ONE ADMIT Silent Cinema
nce again it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Hippodrome’s Festival of Silent Cinema which has quickly become a xture on the calendar of all those who love the magic of early cinema. To see again, or for the rst time, classic O lms of the early twentieth century in the perfect surroundings of a contemporary ‘picture palace’ is a pleasure that can only be experienced here in Bo’ness. Last year’s packed houses were testimony to this and I have no doubt that 2013 will be the same. Fresh from the successful completion of our Hippodrome 100 centenary celebrations, the production team have brought together another amazing collection for your entertainment. Each lm enhanced by the fantastic musical accompaniment which makes silent cinema unique and a night at the Hippodrome so memorable.
As we move into the Hippodrome’s second century what better way to begin than by celebrating the best of the rst one. Ian Scott Chair, Falkirk Community Trust
Festival Funders & Sponsors
Bo'net anks
Oscar Askin (Metro), Daniel Bish (George Eastman House, NY), Fleur Buckley (British Film Institute), Bo’ness Community Council, Jen Davies, Bryony Dixon (British Film Institute), Tom Butler (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Doctor Macro, Allan Hunter, Friends of Kinneil, Jill McCue ( e Town Bistro), Angela Mcleod (Absolutely Sweet), Stuart McMartin, Ron Magliozzi (Museum of Modern Art NY), Mike Mashon (Library of Congress VA, US), Marlies Pfei er (Goethe-Institut, Glasgow), Robert Rider (Barbican), Dr Kelly Robinson, Pilla Scott Moncrie (EDFAS), Jasper Sharp, David Sheperd (Film Preservation Associates, Inc.), Town Centre Management, Ruth Washbrook (Scottish Screen Archive), Todd Wiener (UCLA Film and TV Archive, CA). anks to our colleagues in Falkirk Council, particularly in Development Services, Community Learning and Development team, Education Services, Webteam. And grateful thanks to all the Falkirk Community Trust sta and volunteers who have worked so hard to make the Hippodrome Festival of 2013 possible. 2012 Festival Photography by Graeme MacDonald. www.gmotiondesign.com
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Introduction e Hippodrome and the Festival of Silent Catch the Early Cinema have found a special place in the Bird Deal: book hearts of our audiences. ey use words your tickets like “warm and welcoming”, “delightful”, before Monday 25 “brilliant” and “amazing” to describe the February and get atmosphere, the programming, the building 10% o . Booking and the sta . If you have been part of the Information, page Festival in our rst two years you’ll know 22. to expect an exciting and varied selection of lms, the nest musicians performing superb lm scores and improvisations, and We love it live: from a pervading air of excitement and discovery. piano to double bass, accordion In our third year we look forward to to musical saw, bringing you all these elements that, see who’s coming combined, make the Hippodrome Festival to perform at the place where music and movies come the Hippodrome alive. Each event in the extended ve day this year. e programme has been carefully chosen and Performers, pages developed to inspire you with the thrill and 14-15. joy of silent cinema. Do join us.
Alison Strauss, Festival Director / Arts Development O cer (Film and Media), Stay for the day: Falkirk Community Trust Family Treasure Trail, James Bond Shona omson, Festival Producer classic cars, a Roman fortlet and Scottish Screen Archive Shorts more. Explore Bo’ness, pages 16-19.
Continuing our fruitful relationship with Like us on Facebook for all the the inspiring collections and curators at the Festival deals and news Scottish Screen Archive, we’ll be screening short Scottish silent lms before selected If you’re a tweeter, follow us features. All accompanied live by acclaimed @FalkirkCultural and mention silent lm pianists from the area, Mike us #HippFest Nolan and Forrester Pyke.
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e Artist
A chance to re-live the glamour, romance and drama of this modern silent sensation – a joyous homage to the glory of Hollywood’s silent era. George Valentin is a dashing silent movie superstar with a ra of swashbuckling roles under his belt. But the advent of the talkies destroys his career and he loses everything... except his memories of an obscure young woman who once held a torch for him and for whom stardom now seems to beckon…
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius | France | 2011 | b&w no dialogue | 1h 40m + SSA short With: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Wednesday 13 March | 19:30 Tickets £5.85 / £4.55 conc. | Orange Wednesdays applies Thursday 14 March
UK Premiere Screening Baby Peggy, the Elephant in the Room Recommended U Spellbinding documentary about the oldest surviving silent lm star. Cast in her rst role at just 19 months old, Baby Peggy’s career began in 1920 and ended suddenly in 1924 during which time she made over 150 lms, was one of A special guest from the lm will Hollywood’s rst merchandised celebrities and earned an introduce the screening which will astonishing $1million per picture (around $25million in be followed by a rare showing of the today’s money). For the next 50 years she disappeared from delightful Peg o’ the Mounted (1924) the spotlight emerging as an author and campaigner and starring Baby Peggy. ultimately the subject of this new documentary. Peggy’s story is inspiring and movingly told – not least when the star herself reects with in nite dignity on the turmoil of an infancy spent as the Studio System’s greatest asset. Dir. Vera Iwerebor | Netherlands | 2012 | 58m Dir. Alfred J. Goulding | US | 1924 | b&w | 12m | pre-recorded music by Günter A. Buchwald
ursday 14 March | 19:30 Tickets: £5.85 / £4.55 conc.
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Friday Night Gala
Stage Struck Recommended U
Seize this chance to hear world-class improvising pianist and composer Neil Brand perform for the glamorous Gala screening of Stage Struck. Gloria Swanson gives a star turn as overworked waitress Jenny who dreams of becoming an actress in order to earn the adulation of the man she loves, whilst he only has eyes for the exotic creatures on the visiting show boat. Familiar to audiences today as the bitter and forgotten silent movie queen Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., Swanson here displays her real credentials as a beautiful, talented actress with a air for comedy, and even slapstick. Delightful, funny and notable as one of Swanson’s most popular lms of the day, the lm features an extended Technicolor sequence in which she marvellously spoofs her own diva image.
Dir. Allan Dwan | US | 1925 | b/w & Technicolor | 1h 18m + SSA short With: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Gertrude Astor. Live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand Canapés courtesy of e Town Bistro, Bo’ness
Friday 15 March | reception 18:30 | screening 19:30 Tickets: £10 / £8 conc. | incl. ‘champagne' reception Dress: Glad rags!
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Jeely Jar Screening Chaplin and Keaton Double Bill
A double-bill starring two of the greatest lm comedians ever! Chaplin’s best-loved short: e Immigrant followed by Keaton’s One Week in which Buster and his new bride must build a house from a DIY pre-fab kit. Featuring great sight-gags, balletic timing and, in the case of Keaton, eye-wateringly impressive stunts… these lms show the two stars at the height of their art. And to make the morning even more perfect, both lms will be accompanied by improvised piano playing courtesy of mighty showman: Neil Brand.
Dir. Charlie Chaplin | US | 1917 | 25m In our now traditional Hippodrome Festival Dir. Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton | US | 1920 | 25m fashion, come dressed as your favourite silent Plus SSA short lm star to be in with a chance of winning Live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand our fancy dress competition. No upper age limit! Prizes sponsored by Town Centre Saturday 16 March | 10:30 Management. Tickets: £2.25 | bring a clean empty jam jar with matching lid for 2-for1 tickets. Not eligible for Early Bird discount.
The Dodge Brothers… Recommended PG e Ghost at Never Returns
With a barn-storming line-up of washboards, banjos, double-bass and harmonica, accordion, ukulele, mandolin, guitar and piano, e Dodge Brothers make music for a lm that you may not have heard of but you will never forget! In an un-named South American country, a jail warder stalks an escaped prisoner on trains and across barren landscapes in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Looking to the protest songs of Woody Guthrie for Book your tickets early for the rst inspiration, their accompaniment for the little-known ever Scottish appearance by e Dodge Soviet gem, celebrating the triumph of the powerless over Brothers – featuring Mike Hammond, their oppressors, o ers a cinema experience like no other… Mark Kermode, Aly Hirji, Alex Hammond and Neil Brand. Dir. Abram Room | USSR | 1929 | 1h 10m approx. With: Boris Ferdinandov, Olga Ziznyeva, Maksim Stralikh Live accompaniment by e Dodge Brothers
Saturday 16 March | 14:00 Tickets £10 / £8 conc.
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Goethe-Institut Glasgow Presents
e Oyster Princess Recommended PG
In partnership with the Goethe-Institut Glasgow the Hippodrome Festival is delighted to welcome Günter A. Buchwald – one of the most experienced, talented and pioneering silent lm musicians in the world – to perform for this glorious comedy directed by legendary subversive Ernst Lubtisch. By the time he directed classics like Ninotchka, e Shop Around the Corner, and To Be or Not to Be, Lubitsch already had over twenty years of lmmaking under his belt, typi ed by this delirious and saucy comedy. Ossi Oswalda (known as ‘the German Mary Pickford’) plays the spoilt and thoroughly modern heiress who sets her heart on marrying royal blood.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch | Germany | 1919 | b/w | 1h With: Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke Live piano and violin accompaniment by Günter A. Buchwald
Saturday 16 March | 17:00 Tickets £8 / £6 conc.
The Japan Foundation Presents Jujiro (Crossways) Recommended PG
Kinugasa’s classic of the avant-garde, with a new score performed live by leading UK contemporary electronic ensemble Minima. One of the rst Japanese lms ever shown in the West, Jujiro (aka Crossways) was the director’s follow-up to his better-known Page of Madness (1926). Set in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara pleasure district, this expressionistic and dream-like lm was described by its director as a “samurai action lm without sword ghts”. e magnetic story follows a young woman and her brother whose dangerous obsession with a cold-hearted geisha has tragic consequences.
Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan | 1928 | 1h 12m approx. + SSA short With: Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando, Yukiko Ogawa Live accompaniment by Minima. anks to Jasper Sharp (Zipangu Fest) Saturday 16 March | 20:00 Tickets: £10 / £8 conc.
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Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema Commission New Found Sound Recommended U
Each year, we commission secondary school pupils across the Falkirk Council area to compose and perform live soundtracks for rare lms from the Scottish Screen Archive. Working under the mentorship of award- winning composer/conductor Tom Butler of e Royal Back for its third year, New Found Conservatoire of Scotland, this year's crop of talented Sound is a chance to be inspired young composers o er innovative interpretations on the by the silent lm composers and themes of travel, sport and industry. is is the world accompanists of the future. premiere of their scores performed by fellow pupils taking instrumental lessons and the Falkirk Schools Traditional Music group. Stay for the opportunity to hear more about the creative process in a post-screening Q&A with the composers, performers and teachers.
Sunday 17 March | 11:00 | 1h 15m approx incl. Q&A Tickets: £5 / £4 conc.
Another Fine Mess with Laurel and Hardy With the aid of his violin and piano, master improvising musician Günter A. Buchwald will accompany the boys in three of their hilarious silent shorts. Putting Pants on Philip, their rst o cial joint billing, casts Ollie as a pompous man-about-town reluctantly put in charge of Stan’s Scottish dandy with an unswerving eye for the ladies. Next up is eir Purple Moment where the pair try to earmark family funds for an illicit night on the town, only to be caught A rm Festival favourite – our short when their wives get the better of them. Finally triple bill celebrating cinema’s Double Whoopee, co-starring the "blonde bombshell" Jean most enduringly popular Harlow, in which the duo wreak havoc on the guests at comedy duo. a swanky hotel which has unadvisedly taken them on as footmen. Dir. Various | US | 1927-1928 | 1h 5m approx. + SSA short Live piano accompaniment by Günter A. Buchwald
Sunday 17 March | 13:30 Tickets £8 / £6 conc.
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Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema Commission e Film Explainer Returns Recommended U
Following the success of his 2012 Festival performance and the subsequent national tour, the Hippodrome Festival is delighted to present a new Film Explaining commission created by renowned storyteller Andy Cannon with Musical Director, Frank McLaughlin.
Taking his cue from the elocutionists, narrators and amboyant showmen of lm’s early non-speaking days Andy has created entertaining interpretations of lms from the Scottish Screen Archive, blending theatrical storytelling, traditional stories and live music. Oen more Live accompaniment by acclaimed celebrated than the screen stars for whom they spoke, traditional folk musicians Frank the art of the Film Explainer has been largely forgotten McLaughlin and Stewart Hardy. but is now brought magically to life with this unique and With thanks to the Scottish Screen remarkable blend of cinema and live performance. If you Archive. missed out last year, don’t make the same mistake again… book now for an unparalleled treat, including a rare early lm version of the Rob Roy story.
Sunday 17 March | 16:30 | 1h 15m approx. incl Q&A Tickets: £8 / £6 conc.
Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema Commission
e Goose Woman Recommended PG
e Hippodrome is proud to present a world premiere of a new music commission by Jane Gardner. e lm inspiring tonight’s performance is a rarely screened silent drama, directed by Hollywood veteran Clarence Brown, who went on to direct some of the era’s greatest stars including Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo. Based on a still-unsolved, real- Courtesy of Photoplay Productions life murder case this unusual drama features a magni cent is work and pre-event workshops for performance by Louise Dresser as a faded opera star who secondary schools were supported with blames her halted career on the birth of her now estranged funds from the PRS for Music Foundation. son and sees her chance to recapture the glory and fame of www.prsformusicfoundation.com her youth by testifying against him in a murder trial. is presentation of e Goose Woman by arrangement with Photoplay Productions. Dir. Clarence Brown | US | 1925 | 1h 20m approx. + SSA short Dir. Various | US | 1927-1928 | 1h 5m approx. + SSA short With: Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford Pre-screening cake bites courtesy of Live piano accompaniment by Günter A. Buchwald Live accompaniment by Jane Gardner, Hazel Morrison and Su-a Absolutely Sweet, Bo’ness Lee on piano, ugelhorn, percussion, musical saw and cello Sunday 17 March | 13:30 Tickets £8 / £6 conc. Sunday 17 March | reception 19:30 | screening 20:00 Tickets: £10 / £8 conc. | incl. reception
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The Cuppa 'Bright, Steady and Free from Flicker': Early Cinema in Bo'ness and Beyond
With more cinema attendances and cinemas per capita than anywhere else in the UK, Scottish folk embraced the century’s new art form with gusto. But what was it really like to go to the cinema in Scotland a hundred years ago? La Scala Cinema, Who went to the movies and what did they watch? Grangemouth, circa 1920. Photo courtesy of Falkirk Including a special focus on the history of Bo’ness, Dr Archives. Maria Velez-Serna and Prof John Caughie of the University of Glasgow uncover the real experience of “goin’ tae the pictures”. is presentation of the ndings of their new AHRC-funded research into this fast-changing chapter in the history of early cinema in Scotland will be generously illustrated with historical maps, local newspapers and footage from the Scottish Screen Archive.
Friday 15 March | 14:30 | 1h 30m incl. Q&A Tickets: £5.85 incl. tea/co ee and a cake / £2.90 talk only
Public dance workshop A Chance to Dance
Immerse yourself in the spirit of the Roaring Twenties and join a dance troupe for the aernoon. Under the expert and friendly guidance of choreographer and community dance leader Kaye Finlay you will be taken through the steps for a big production number worthy of the silent era’s glitziest With thanks to Bo’net, Zieg eld chorus-line. A fast-paced, high energy session the Bo’ness community with Charleston, Black Bottom and early jazz steps, plus networking group. plenty of kicks and jumps to keep you on your toes. No experience or partner required… just a big showtime smile and happy feet!
Bring water and wear comfortable clothes (dance shoes optional). Note: the venue for this session is Bo’ness Town Hall, Stewart Avenue, Bo’ness EH51 9NJ
Sunday 17 March | 14:00 – 16:30 Tickets: £5 / £4 conc. 16+ years
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Primary Schools Workshop Make Movie Music!
A fun- lled session for schools led by members of the acclaimed Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Using the inspiring classic Berlin, Symphony of a City (Walter Ruttman, Germany, 1927), musicians Una and George will explore the art of creating an improvised musical accompaniment for silent lm, introducing the session with their own performance and then working with the participants to create and perform their very own movie With thanks to the Goethe-Institut Glasgow soundtrack. and Caledonian Produce. ursday 14 March | 10:00 – 11:30 Tickets: Pupils £2.25, accompanying teachers/adults free. Pre-booking essential
#HippFest @ FUSION
Fusion is the place for young people in Bo’ness to kickback in a safe environment of a Saturday night and the Hippodrome is again taking over during the Festival with artist Jason Singh, one of the UK’s foremost human beatboxers. Using his incredible vocal talent, Jason will be working with Fusion members to create silent lm soundtracks with only their voices as instruments to respond to visuals on screen. Fusion is run by Falkirk Council Education Service and Community Learning and Development Team with St Andrew’s Parish Church, Bo’ness. With thanks to Caledonian Produce. Saturday 16 March, 19:00 – 20:00 Bo’ness Recreation Centre, Gauze Road, Bo’ness EH51 9QB Admission: free Age: S1 - S6
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Date Time Event Venue Page Mon 11 Feb - See listing Hipp100 Public Art Bo’ness Library 17 Tue 19 Mar Schools Project Sat 9 Mar - See listing Now Showing: A Century Kinneil Museum 17 Tue 19 Mar of Cinemagoing in the Falkirk Area Wed 13 Mar 19:30 e Artist (PG) Hippodrome 4 u 14 Mar 10:00 Primary Schools Workshop: Hippodrome 11 Make Movie Music! 19:30 Baby Peggy, e Elephant Hippodrome 4 in the Room (U) Fri 15 Mar 14:30 Talk: Early Cinema in Hippodrome 10 Bo’ness and Beyond 18:30 Friday Night Gala: Hippodrome 5 Stage Struck (U) Sat 16 Mar 10:00 Guided Tours of Kinneil Kinneil House and Estate 17 House 10:30 Jeely Jar Screening: Chaplin Hippodrome 6 & Keaton Double Bill (U) 14:00 e Ghost at Never Hippodrome 6 Returns (PG) 17:00 e Oyster Princess (PG) Hippodrome 7 19:00 #HippFest @ FUSION Bo’ness Recreation Centre 11 20:00 Jujiro (Crossways) (PG) Hippodrome 7 Sun 17 Mar 11:00 New Found Sound (U) Hippodrome 8 13:30 Another Fine Mess with Hippodrome 8 Laurel & Hardy (U) 14:00 Workshop: A Chance to Bo’ness Town Hall 10 Dance 16:30 e Film Explainer Hippodrome 9 Returns (U) 19:30 Closing Night Gala: e Hippodrome 9 Goose Woman (PG)
Looking for a place to eat? Go to pages 18-19 for a list of cafes, bistros and restaurants within walking distance of the Hippodrome.
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Neil Brand Andy Cannon, Frank Kaye Finlay Friday Night Gala: Stage Struck, Jeely Jar McLaughlin and A Chance to Dance Screening: Chaplin & Keaton Double Stewart Hardy Bill, e Ghost at Never Returns e Film Explainer Returns Kaye has been teaching dance since she was 16 working with schools, One of Scotland’s most respected theatre companies and community director/performer/writers, Andy groups all round the Falkirk and Cannon co-founded family theatre Perth area. Kaye ran the Crash Bang company ‘Wee Stories’, has just Wallop Dance Company where she completed an artists’ residency at developed her high-energy approach e Platform, Easterhouse and and her passion for dance as a toured the country with Scota-land, creative form of personal expression a London 2012 Festival storytelling accessible to everyone. performance commission with Pianist, composer, performer, Mull eatre. Renowned guitarist/ Jane Gardner, Hazel writer and actor, Neil has been piper Frank McLaughlin and ddle Morrison and Su-a Lee accompanying silent lm for over 25 virtuoso Stewart Hardy possess a years throughout the UK and lm rare musical kinship as they explore Closing Night Gala: e Goose festivals worldwide, and this will be music rooted in the traditions Woman his third year at the Hippodrome of Scotland, the Borders and Festival. Since the 2012 Hippodrome Northumbria while incorporating Festival, Neil has been garnering sensibilities from the worlds of 4- and 5-star reviews for high-pro le classical, blues, klezmer and jazz. performances of his orchestral scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail and Anthony Asquith’s Underground, e Dodge Brothers working on a new BBC radio e Ghost at Never Returns drama commission, lming a BBC4 television series, and has played the piano for the Queen. It’s an honour to welcome Neil back to the Hippodrome! Jane has been accompanying silent lms at festival and venues around the UK since 2005. Her music has Günter A. Buchwald been commissioned and performed e Oyster Princess, Another Fine widely by groups including the Mess with Laurel and Hardy Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO). As a music copyist and Renowned for playing the hell out orchestrator, she regularly works of classic Americana, e Dodge with composer/producer Jim Brothers are an exuberant hybrid of Sutherland, most recently on Disney country blues, rockabilly, jugband Pixar's Brave soundtrack. Hazel and skie. e line-up features Mike Morrison has extensive experience Hammond (lead guitar, lead vocals, as a percussionist and singer from banjo), broadcaster and lm critic performing with the RSNO to Mark Kermode (bass, harmonica, touring and recording with Glasgow vocals), Aly Hirji (rhythm guitar, band e Bathers. Hazel is currently Günter A. Buchwald is known mandolin, vocals), Alex Hammond working on a new album featuring internationally as a world-class (washboard, snare drum, percussion) Louis Abbot (Admiral Fallow). Hazel silent lm improviser. A conductor, and for lm performances h and Jane treated us to a wonderful pianist, violinist and composer, Dodge Brother, Neil Brand. ey Closing Night Gala with e Black Günter’s performance style is have performed on Radio 2, Pirate at last year’s Festival and hugely versatile, and he plays across Radio 5, at the Royal Albert Hall, e are joined this year by Su-a Lee, a musical genres from baroque to jazz, Jazz Café, the Barbican and sell-out graduate of the Juilliard School in sometimes playing two instruments gigs at London's Borderline. eir New York and Asst-Principal cellist at once! Across his career, he has performance at the Hippodrome will of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. accompanied more than 2,100 silent be their rst Scottish gig. ese guys No stranger to musical adventure, lms in more than 2,500 concerts play with dust in their Levis and the Su-a oen plays outside the classical around the world. A rst-time road in their hearts. sphere across art forms and the visitor to the Hippodrome, we’re musical spectrum. is is the rst looking forward to Günter’s dynamic appearance of a musical saw at the performances full of energy and Hippodrome Festival! expression.
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George Burt and Una Minima Forrester Pyke McGlone: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Jujiro (Crossways) Scottish Screen Archive Shorts (GIO) Make Movie Music!
At the forefront of bands A keen musician and composer George Burt is a guitarist and accompanying silents today, with a successful career as a teacher composer based in Falkirk and Minima’s music o ers an audacious and musical director, Forrester is member of GIO. His work includes 21st century interpretation of the one of the leading lights in silent establishing BMacD one of the images of silent and avant-garde lm accompaniment in Scotland. leading partnerships on the modern/ lm. e line-up includes electric Performing at many venues, free scene in Scotland, recording guitar, bass, drums and sometimes including the Glasgow Film eatre, two concept albums and working cello. eir repertoire includes set the Edinburgh International with the likes of Harry Beckett, Keith scores to surrealist lms, horror and Film Festival, Summerhall and Tippett and Lol Coxhill. Founder science ction, as well as silent short most recently during the Alfred member and Education Manager lms and improvised performances. Hitchcock Silent Seven season at at GIO, Una McGlone is an active Minima are renowned for their the Filmhouse Edinburgh. We’re double-bassist in many di erent entirely live inventive scores that delighted to welcome Forrester back musical areas, collaborating with will haunt you long aer the icker to the Hippodrome aer his popular musicians ranging from David Byrne has gone. performance of Yasujiro Ozu’s I Was to folk musician Savourna Stevenson. Born, But at last year’s Hippodrome She is also a regular addition to the Festival. bass sections of Scottish Opera, BBC Mike Nolan Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Scottish Screen Archive Shorts Jason Singh #HippFest @ FUSION GIO is a large ensemble of musicians Mike has accompanied silent lm screenings in Scotland for almost 20 from diverse artistic origins as such Jason is one of the UK’s leading as free improvisation, experimental years, including several commercial releases, together with recordings Human Beatboxers working as music, jazz, classical, folk, and a multi-disciplinary artist who pop. e GIO has established and live performances for the Scottish Screen Archive (SSA). In creates, facilitates and collaborates a reputation, both locally and through the media of sound, music, internationally, for innovative and 1996, he was the accompanist for the SSA’s 'Movies on the Move' mobile photography, poetry and moving critically acclaimed improvised image. His work is rooted in music. cinema tour of Scotland and also appeared at the Il Cinema Ritrovato inspiring people to engage in exciting Festival in Bologna. Aer working creative experiences, through for several years in community performance and participation, music, he retrained in Nordo - and his astonishing vocal dexterity Robbins music therapy. He continues reaches beyond the ordinary into to work across Scotland as a freelance the extraordinary. Jason is currently composer and performer, with a touring his live vocal score to particular interest in improvising John Grierson’s silent lm Dri ers silent lm accompaniment. (1929). Using techniques of pre- recorded vocal sequences, live vocal processing and sampling, he creates a sonic lm backdrop of ambient textures, experimental atmospheres and rhythms created solely by the use of the voice.
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Bo’ness (full name River Forth. Historic Scotland Borrowstounness) is a now run the site and the castle beautiful historic town was used as a lm set for Franco nestled on the Firth of Forth Ze relli’s Hamlet starring Mel with lovely views over the Gibson. Its dramatic location Ochil Hills and the Forth makes it a lovely spot for a Road and Rail Bridges. picnic and a stroll along the water’s edge aer exploring Formerly a major port, the town within the castle walls. was a centre for heavy industry and coal mining. Nowadays, Once the northernmost frontier it has a growing number of of the Roman Empire, the independent shops, cafes and Antonine Wall passes through restaurants (see pages 18-19 Bo’ness at the Kinneil Estate for o ers exclusive to Festival (see opposite page). Beautiful ticketholders) and is home to woodland walks are accessible popular attractions such as the on the surrounding parkland Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway Estate and along the Bo’ness and the Museum of Scottish foreshore, which is home to a Railways: Scotland’s largest range of wildlife. railway museum. e Bo’ness Motor Museum houses a private Around the town, there is also Accommodation collection of famous vehicles a Murder Mystery themed o er for Festival and props from lms and TV treasure trail. Perfect for goers series such as James Bond, families, the circular trail will Stay for a night Harry Potter and Doctor Who. last two hours and provide or two while you Bo'ness Recreation Centre also you with some great views take in the movies o ers a full range of sporting over the Firth of Forth. Pick and the sights. facilities. Special o er of £60 up your trail guide from local per night for two stockist, Inkspot and Silverleaf people including full A short drive from Bo’ness is Booksellers (see page 19 for Scottish breakfast at the formidable Blackness Castle, contacts) or buy online at e Richmond Park a 15th century ship-shaped www.treasuretrails.co.uk. Hotel, Bo’ness. See fortress which juts out onto the page 19 for details or go to www. For more information on Bo’ness and the Falkirk area, richmondparkhotel. please visit www.falkirk.gov.uk/visitfalkirk com to book.
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Kinneil House, Museum and Estate Bo’ness Library During the Festival, there will be a rare Based in a renovated 17th century building this opportunity for guided tours of the magni cent friendly local hub o ers free high speed internet Kinneil House which dates back to the 15th and access and Wi-Fi (contact the Library to con rm 16th centuries. Guides from e Friends of Kinneil forms of ID accepted). We’re delighted that the will be on hand to take you through this historic Library will be hosting two exhibitions during House and tell its fascinating story. Look out for the Festival. the extraordinary renaissance wall paintings – said to be the best in Scotland – and the resident ghost. Hippodrome 100 Public Art Schools Kinneil Museum is located in the 17th century Project stable block of the adjacent Kinneil House and acts as an interpretative centre for Kinneil Estate. e A special display of artwork and ideas inspired exhibition 2,000 Years of History tells the story of by the Hippodrome as part of the cinema’s the park from Roman times to the present day. centenary project. Over 150 children from all six Bo’ness primary schools have been Now Showing: A Century of exploring visual language and expression with Cinemagoing in the Falkirk Area artist Susheila Jamieson with the aim of taking an active and informed role in the future Kinneil Museum will also be host to Now Showing, commissioning of public art for their area. the Hippodrome’s centenary exhibition. Charting the rise, fall and resurgence of local cinemas Great Adaptations through the history of the Hippodrome, Now Showing draws on the reminiscences, photos and e return of this exhibition curated by the artefacts held in the Falkirk Community Trust Bo’ness Library team and gathered from the Archives, the National Library of Scotland and the collections exploring the relationship between Cinema eatre Association. Cinema and Literature.
Saturday 16 March only | Kinneil House open Monday 11 February – Tuesday 19 March 10:00 – 12:00 & Museum open 10:00 – 16:00 Opening times as per Library Saturday 9 March – Tuesday 19 March | Museum Bo’ness Library, Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness and Exhibition open Mon - Sat 12:30 – 16:00 EH51 0AH Admission: free Admission: free www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/libraries Kinneil Estate, Bo’ness EH51 0PR www.kinneil.org.uk
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e Hippodrome is e Baby Box – e Bo’ness Motor located in the heart Childrens & Babies Museum of the Victorian town Clothes Shop Classic cars and memorabilia centre of Bo’ness where We stock children’s clothes including famous lm cars: traditional independent from birth – 6yrs, baby shoes, James Bond, Harry Potter, 51st shops, restaurants and pram covers, so toys, socks, State and more. 007 themed hotels provide a friendly, hats & mits, fair tiaras, dolly bar and cafe. Located 1 mile individual service within bags, handmade cards. All east of Bo’ness town centre easy walking distance of the year club and gi vouchers with free parking. Bridgeness cinema. Show your Festival available. 95 North Street, Road, Bo'ness EH51 9JR. Bo’ness EH51 9ND. Tel: 01506 827 007 Email: ticket to take advantage Tel: 01506 826031 [email protected] of special deals o ered www.motor-museum.bo-ness. by participating local Back To Basics org.uk businesses. ese Shop Discount Store Local pages are generously e Bo’ness Toy Shop supported by Bo’ness Town Deal: 20% discount on Your local independent toy Centre Management. production of this voucher. Something for everything at shop stocking well-known your local discount store on brands of toys and pocket A & J Newsagents North Street in Bo’ness town money crazes including If you are looking for a centre. Tel: 01506 822518 Moshi Monsters. Follow us on headline performer pop into Facebook for special o ers and A & J Newsagents just e Bo’ness Bakery updates. around the corner from the 13 North Street, Supplier of designer cakes, Hippodrome for papers, mags Bo’ness EH51 9HE. cupcakes and traditional and lots on o er. 27 South Tel: 01506 828002. bakery products, fresh co ee Street, Bo’ness EH51 9HE. www.thebonesstoyshop.com and takeaway food. Like us on Tel: 01506 517002 Facebook. 122 North Street, Brian’s Café & Bo’ness EH51 9NF Takeaway Absolutely Sweet Tel: 01506 825336 Deal: We sell luxury cupcakes, During the Festival period pop tasty treats, bespoke cakes. Bo’ness Chiropractic into Brian’s café for a friendly Come into the shop before & Sports Massage welcome and fantastic food, 18 March and get 20% o . including his award winning Don't let the aches and pains Quote “silent2013”. Find us on soup. From family favourites, brought about by ill health, Facebook. 62 South Street, snacks or takeaways, there’s accident, or the rigours of Bo'ness EH51 9HA. plenty to choose from, the only modern life interfere with your Tel: 01506 825741 problem is what to choose. daily activities. We can help Make this part of your visit. get you back to work or back 9 Hope Street, Ada Polish Food Store to your sporting endeavours, Bo’ness EH51 0AA. For something a little di erent feeling t and functioning at Tel: 01506 823815 come along and try out Ada’s your best! 1 Market Square, delicatessen supplying all Bo’ness EH51 9AD. Polish goods and a wide range Tel: 01506 828 828 of the basics at good prices and www.bonesschiropractic.co.uk fantastic quality. 9 North Street, Bo’ness EH51 0AQ. Tel: 01506 827345
Page 18 Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema 2013 | Box o ce: 01324 506850 Love Bo'ness... Shop Local omas Burns, e Ivy Tea Room e Richmond Park Butchers & Sons Hotel Winner of last year’s Festival Traditional family butchers and Window Display Competition. Deal: £60.00 for a double/twin delicatessen. Supplier of gold We specialise in home cooking. room and £45.00 for a single award steak pies, locally sourced Deal: Free drink with any room, includes breakfast. Quote beef and takeaway quality meals meal over £4.50 on production ref: RPH1317. e Richmond as an exciting new line. Special of Festival ticket. Find us on Grill Restaurant and Bar is open requests catered for. 10 Market Facebook. 68 South Street, to residents and non-residents. Street, Bo’ness, EH51 9AD. Bo’ness, EH51 9HA. Tel 01506 26 Linlithgow Road, Bo’ness Tel: 01506 822764 823389 EH51 0DN. Tel: 01506 823213. www.richmondparkhotel.com e Corbie Inn Logistic Computer Services S & S Shoes Another star performer – o ering good food, real ales, and Computer and games console We sell bags, brollies, purses, a family-friendly atmosphere. repair specialists. Free call out & accessories for all occasions, Only 10 minutes’ walk from the and free estimates. 3-month catering for larger sizes and Hippodrome cinema. warranty on all hardware extra wide tting. 43 South 84 Corbiehall, Bo’ness EH51 0AS. repairs. 50 North Street, Bo’ness Street, Bo’ness EH51 9HA. Tel: 01506 825307 EH51 0AG . Tel: 01506 827 427 / Tel: 07932 423737 www.corbieinn.co.uk 0800 612 6404 www.logiccomputerservice.co.uk Sweets ‘n’ ings Fletcher Neil & Co Barbers Paper Ribbons We o er a great choice of pick 'n' mix, traditional sweets, Stylish upmarket gents’ barbers. We are a contemporary card, gi dancewear, gis and accessories. 39 South Street, Bo’ness EH51 and jewellery boutique o ering Like us on Facebook. 6 Hope 9HA. Tel: 01506 826085 a one stop shopping experience. Street, Bo'ness EH51 0AA. Follow us on Facebook for all Tel: 01506 826296 Happy Feet our news and latest product www.sweets-n-things.co.uk ranges. 24 South Street, Bo'ness Children’s shoe boutique. EH51 0EA. Tel: 01506 822599 e Town Bistro Stockist of Hush Puppies, www.paperribbons.co.uk Primgi, Lelli Kelly, Lea Lelo, e Town Bistro o ers a Pediped, Poddlers, Tinny, Crocs, Pebbles relaxing atmosphere to enjoy a Hunters, Aigle, Sketchers, lunchtime snack or an evening Rondinella, Hop ‘n’ Squeak. Deal: Pebbles are delighted meal. We are perfectly located Also stocks tights, socks, to o er Festival ticketholders for visitors coming to the legwarmers, wellie liners, 10% discount on our fabulous Hippodrome and our local Stephen Joseph backpacks, exclusive jewellery and attractions. Book in advance! lunchboxes and penny pals. accessory ranges. Located very Open Monday- ursday Find us on Facebook. 37 North close to the Hippodrome, we’d 9.30am-4.30pm, Friday- Street, Bo’ness EH51 0AQ. love to see you before or aer Saturday 9am-7.30pm (last food Tel: 01506 825891 any of the daytime screenings. orders), Sunday 12pm-7.30pm. Follow us on Facebook and 17 South Street, Bo’ness EH51 Inkspot & Silverleaf Twitter (@Pebblesjeweller). 0EA Tel: 01506 829946 Booksellers 43 North Street, Bo’ness EH51 0AA Tel: 01506 826863 Deal: A nationally renowned, www.pebblesjewellery.co.uk small independent bookshop Look out for in the heart of Bo'ness. Present e Pet Store competitors in your Festival ticket for 10% the Festival’s discount on all books! (O er Silence is golden. Keep your Window Display ends 31/03/13. One discount per pet occupied with a toy or treat transaction.) 76-78 South Street, from e Pet Store. 9 South Competition Bo’ness EH51 9HA. Street, Bo’ness EH51 0EA. taking place Tel: 01506 204450. Tel: 01506 825841 throughout the www.inkspotandsilverleaf.co.uk www.thepetstoreonline.co.uk Festival.
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100 years old and screening the best major releases, independent lms and classics all year-round. Scotland’s oldest purpose-built cinema
‘Cuppa’ screenings with co ee/tea & Free parking in Bo’ness town centre cake included in your ticket price Baby-changing facility Saturday morning screenings for families Buggy-parking Hippodrome for schools programme Orange Wednesdays Special events, Q&As, workshops Café and Licensed Bar
Refreshments Access e Hippodrome Café o ers Please note: Children and 3 wheelchair spaces on lower popcorn, ice-cream, sweets, young people are not permitted oor tea, co ee and so drinks. It to approach the bar. No person Accessible toilet opens 30 minutes before the under the age of 18 years is Infra red sound transmission rst Festival screening of the permitted to purchase alcohol. Induction loop (in cinema and day and closes at the start of Proof of age may be requested. at box o ce) the last screening. Only food and drink purchased on the premises may be Please advise Box O ce sta A selection of beer, wine and consumed. of any access requirements spirits is available from the when booking. Hippodrome Licensed Bar. Opening hours during the Baby Changing Facility Festival (subject to licence): A baby changing room is Wed / u / Fri: as per the located on the ground oor. Café Sat / Sun: open from 12:00 and closes at the start of the last screening
Pick up a programme or join our free mailing list: send your name, email and/or full postal address to: [email protected] or write to Freepost RSSR-SGEA-KRKT, e Steeple Box O ce, High Street, Falkirk FK1 1NW. Let us know what you’re interested in (arts / heritage / libraries / sport / tness / parks / outdoors).
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Car: Bus: Bo’ness lies on the south bank of the Firth of ere are regular bus services to Bo’ness from Forth. Travelling from the west, exit the M9 Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Bathgate, Falkirk, at J5 onto the A905 then take the A904 into Stirling, Cumbernauld and Glasgow. e Bo’ness. From the east, exit at J3 onto the A803 services are operated by First Group. Call then take the A904 into Bo’ness. Traveline Scotland on 0871 200 22 33 for bus Parking: timetables or visit www.travelinescotland.com e Hippodrome is within easy walking distance of free parking in Bo’ness town centre. Bike: Train: e Round the Forth Cycle Route (National Cycle Network Route 76) runs for 91 miles e nearest station to Bo’ness is Linlithgow, from Edinburgh along both coasts of the Firth which is served by regular trains from of Forth through Bo’ness. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling/Dunblane. Details of rail services are available from Taxi: National Rail Enquiries on 08457 48 49 50 or www.nationalrail.co.uk. From Linlithgow Rail Station, the average taxi fare is £6.00 and will take approx 15 mins. Buy PLUSBUS with your train tickets for cheap, ere are a number of rms operating in the unlimited bus travel to Bo’ness and within area including: Express Taxis 01506 824244 and the Linlithgow area including to and from the Fourways 01506 823607 railway station. For more information visit www.plusbus.info. Air: Edinburgh Airport (13.5 miles), Glasgow Airport (42.1 miles), Prestwick Airport (65.2 miles)
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THIS WORKING LIFE
MondayS 11TEEL March & Monday 25 March
Early Bird Discount! Online Steeple Box O ce Book before Monday 25 hippfest.co.uk High Street, Falkirk, FK1 1NW February and save 10% on Tel: 01324 506850 your Festival tickets (excludes Online bookings are subject to [email protected] Schools Workshop and Jeely Jar a booking fee of 12.5% of the Open Monday - Saturday Screening). transaction value + £1.95 for 09:30 – 16:45 postage. Please note there is no Jeely Jar Screening postage fee if tickets purchased Most debit and credit cards are online are collected from the accepted by phone. Tickets can www.glasgowfilm.org/steel Once a season we revive the Hippodrome Box O ce on the be sent directly to the customer Hippodrome tradition when day of the event. (50p for postage) or collected Glasgow Film Theatre presents two archive film programmes about a youngsters could get their ticket from the Hippodrome Box once-major British industry, its highly skilled workforce and some of the in exchange for a jeely (or jam) Hippodrome Box O ce on the day of the event. jar. Bring a clean empty jam O ce breathtaking feats which the industry routinely achieved. jar with matching lid to this Refunds screening for 2-for-1 tickets 10 Hope Street, Bo’ness, (Saturday 16 March 11:00 EH51 0AA Tickets will not be exchanged Chaplin / Keaton double bill). (Saturday 16 March 11:00 Chaplin or money refunded aer For online bookings quote / Keaton double bill)’ at end of 2nd Box o ce opening hours purchase except in the event “jeely” but remember to bring sentence. outwith the Festival: Saturdays of cancellation of screening/ your jam jar on the day! 10:15 – 14:30 activity by Falkirk Community Trust. e Ghost at Never Also opens 45 minutes before Returns - e Dodge and closes 15 minutes aer the Concessions Brothers start of each regular screening. Concession tickets are available Screening times can be found Please note there is a limit of for children under 16 years, at www.falkirkcommunitytrust. four tickets per person for e unemployed in receipt of org/venues/hippodrome Ghost at Never Returns on bene ts, full-time students, Saturday 16 March at 14:00. OAPs, Young Scot Card Holders Box o ce opening hours and Falkirk Community Trust during the Festival: Leisure Card holders. Proof of Wednesday 18:45 - 19:45 concession eligibility must be ursday 18:45 - 19:45 shown before purchase. Friday 14:00 - 19:45 Saturday 10:00 - 19:45 Sunday 10:30 - 20:00
We recommend booking in advance to avoid disappointment. Seating is unreserved. Due to the nature of the live Festival performances, some seats may have restricted view. Guests and performers listed in the Festival programme are correct at the time of going to print.
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MondayS 11TEEL March & Monday 25 March
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Glasgow Film Theatre presents two archive film programmes about a once-major British industry, its highly skilled workforce and some of the breathtaking feats which the industry routinely achieved. Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema e Hippodrome, Bo’ness 10 Hope Street, Bo’ness EH51 0AA 01324 506850 [email protected] hippfest.co.uk
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Falkirk Community Trust gratefully acknowledge the support of Falkirk Council Falkirk Community Trust Registered Charity No. SC042403