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28 September 2024 Morecambe (United Kingdom)
Northern Silents: Museum of Dreamworlds
Northern Silents musicians - Morecambe Winter Gardens
Program Info: The Emperor Nero sets fire to Rome, and Odysseus encounters the Cyclops on his journey home. This quartet of early silent films brings the ancient world alive on the screen.
The Films In the early twentieth century, silent cinema brought the classical world out of the distant past and the schoolrooms of the elites, and put it on show for millions of spectators across the globe. Ancient Greece and Rome gave cinema prestige and a remarkable set of stories about gods on earth, murder, love, slavery, and war.
A short 1901 Pompeii travelogue starts the show, before the two dramatic centrepieces of the programme - Nero, or the Burning of Rome (1909) and a forty-minute high-octane dash through Homer’s epic in The Odyssey (1911). We round the show off with a cartoon chariot race!
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