Past Events Archive

Personal memories of stage and screen legend Elisabeth Welch are shared by her biographer Stephen Bourne, illustrated with rare and wonderful film extracts from his private collection.

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Schlock horror - don't miss Cinetopia’s Halloween Spooktacular at the Cinema Museum! Mystery movie, quiz, food & bar + more. Dress to kill!

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How Chaplin drew upon his childhood in Kennington and Southwark when searching for suitable locations and building his sets: film historian David Trigg reprises his popular illustrated presentation. With Chaplin shorts and live piano.

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Senior model maker at Aardman Animations Jim Parkyn presents a unique, hands on, crash course in ‘Gromit Building’. Come along and get cracking with the modelling clay – create your very own piece of movie magic! Ages 6-12

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Jon Davies presents Jacques Tati’s first, and for many his greatest, film achievement, with a comprehensive portrait of the man and his work.

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Film format home movies can be brought for inspection by a trained archivist. You don’t have to have home movies to attend, and there will be a special presentation of 1950s-1970s location cine footage shot by film publicist Ralph Cooper, plus tea and cake, and prizes to be won! , .

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Territory play a mix of their Latin and African influenced jazz as the Museum is transformed into a jazz club for the night. The programme will include a short 1920s avant garde film screening with a new score by Duncan James.

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Kim Newman and Jonathan Rigby are our guides on a journey from monsters, ghouls and horror-of-Armageddon in the 1960s to slasher, splatter and the occult in the 1970s, rediscovering the classics and exploring the less well-trodden paths.

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