CLASSIC films from the age of silent cinema will be the subject of a series of free illustrated talks.
Film historian David Williams will give the fourth instalment in his lecture series, Studies in Silent, at Clayport Library, in Claypath, Durham next month.
Titled the Teens and Twenties in Hollywood, the course will start on Wednesday, January 12, at 7pm.
Mr Williams will investigate the development of the feature film from 1913 to the advent of sound in 1927.
He will start with an early example of social drama made in 1913 called Traffic in Souls, a controversial film about the white slave trade in New York.
Other films to be screened include comedies starring Gloria Swanson and Bebe Daniels as well as Snow White, the 1917 film that inspired Walt Disney to make his first animation ten years later.
Mr Williams said: "With Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, The Last of the Mohicans and Oscar Wilde's Salome, the free course is bound to offer an intriguing insight into the lost world of silent cinema."
Sessions will take place in the library each Wednesday, from 7pm to 9pm, until March 16.
To book a place, call 0191-386 4003.
Published: 20/12/2004
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