Essex Book Festival: A Criminally Good Day
Sherlock Jr. (1924) (dir. Buster Keaton) – A film projectionist (and amateur detective) offers to solve the case of a missing watch, but is instead framed for the crime himself. Desperate to clear his name, the projectionist dreams of being the great Sherlock Jr., and in one of cinemas most iconic sequences, literally steps into the screen to bring his fantasies to life.
This film will be screened using the cinemas original 1911 silent screen.
With Recorded Soundtrack featuring Original Music Score by Timothy Brock