The Cinema Museum, London

Entries from September 17th, 2013

Flux Soup: live music + screening of Ménilmontant (1926)

September 2013 · Events

Multi-talented musicians perform and improvise to an imaginative programme of clips and shorts from independent film-makers. A spontaneous fusion of jazz, classical and electronic instruments and apparatus!

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The Picture Palace Project

September 2013 · News · Featured Article

The Elephant & Castle was once home to an extraordinary number of picture houses and was known as the Piccadilly Circus of the South. The Cinema Museum’s Picture Palace Project is a community heritage scheme supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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5 Broken Cameras (2011) – screening

September 2013 · Events

Emad Burnat’s and Guy Davidi’s critically-acclaimed and deeply personal first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements.

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Hanging Out: Youth Culture Then and Now + Q&A

September 2013 · Events

Memories and parallels, with rare 1950s/60s footage and iconic images, in this documentary from Lorna Holder and Yvonne Deutschman.

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Bird Radio: The Boy and the Audience album launch

September 2013 · Events

Bird Radio gives a special performance to celebrate the launch of his debut album.

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Saturday Morning Pictures

September 2013 · Events

Vintage cartoons, cliffhangers, choc-ices and choice entertainment. A fun-filled morning for all the family. Tickets will sell fast, so book early!

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Picture Palace Project Exhibition & Walk

September 2013 · Events

Hear and contribute to a wonderful bank of memories of grand Picture Palaces and “cosy” cinemas! Free entry and Museum tours. Plus, at 10.30 a free guided walk (only 20 places!), exploring Picture Palaces from Waterloo via the Elephant to the Cinema Museum, with an exclusive peek inside the Coronet Theatre on the Old Kent Road, and at 14.00 a screening of We Are All One, a film about Bermondsey made by young people from the Downside Fisher youth club.

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The Black Pirate (1926) – screening

September 2013 · Events

This silent adventure film shot entirely in two-strip Technicolor stars Douglas Fairbanks. Donald MacKenzie, well known as the organist from the Odeon Leicester Square, will both introduce the film and accompany it live on the piano.

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