The Kennington Bioscope is a regular cinema event featuring live accompaniment to silent films that takes place at the Cinema Museum.

Kennington Bioscope hosts a series of silent films based around Greek and Roman antiquity, presented by Professor Maria Wyke from the Department of Greek and Latin, UCL, London.

There will be a Q & A following the screenings.

The programme (subject to change) will be:

Visit to Pompeii (1901), directed by George A. Smith and Charles Urban, Warwick Trading Company, UK. This British travelogue documents, in long panning shots, the state of the excavations at Pompeii in 1901 and the journey up to Vesuvius in a railway carriage.

Julius Caesar (1908). An America version of Shakespeare’s play.

The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927). Two fragments from an America burlesque of the Trojan War, directed by Alexander Korda.

Interval

The Odyssey / L’Odissea (1911), directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, and Giuseppe de Liguoro, Milano Films, Italy.

Bending Hur / Roaming Romeo (1928). Comedy directed by and starring Lupino Lane.

Live piano accompaniment.

Silent film with intertitles which may be suitable for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Tickets & Pricing

£8. Seats are limited, so please arrive early or request an invitation using the email kenbioscope@gmail.com.