COLOUR COMES TO THE MOVIES: David Cleveland and Christopher Bird will present some of the earliest colour films, from 1896-1912, on a 1919 hand-cranked projector, with live musical accompaniment from John Sweeney. Tinting, hand colouring and stencil colour will all be on display in the work of Georges Méliès and other pioneering filmmakers. The show will finish with an incredibly rare opportunity to see the first successful natural colour system, Kinemacolor, in action.
About John Sweeney
John Sweeney has played for silent films for many years, and has performed at festivals all over Europe, including Cinema Ritrovato and the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy, Babylon StummFilm Fest in Berlin, and Slapstick Festival in Bristol. He has recorded music for DVD releases of silent films and is a founding member of the Kennington Bioscope, which puts on screenings of neglected silent films at the Cinema Museum London
