Three Enchanting Silent Films from The National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive Accompanied by Talented Young Musicians from the Falkirk Area.

An encore event from the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival 2022, this unique and always popular schools’ initiative invites talented young people to create and perform music to accompany archive silent films.

Three piano students from Falkirk schools, mentored by professional musicians, will reprise their new score for Early Birds – a delightful tale about a tiny tot’s raid on the family kitchen.
This will be followed by two remarkable shorts accompanied by the Falkirk Schools Trad Bands.
The Junior Trad Band will accompany Da Makkin o’ a Keshie. A beautiful and lyrical snapshot of Shetland life, filmed and directed by pioneering Scottish filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson (née Brown), in which a Shetland crofter demonstrates how to make a ‘keshie’ to carry home his peat.

The final film with accompaniment from the Senior Trad Band will be The Coming of the Camerons (directed by award-winning amateur Frank Marshall) which follows Cairngorms postie Jean Cameron’s convention-defying campaign to secure uniform trousers for postwomen instead of the regulation skirt.

Trinity Church, Manse Pl, Falkirk, FK1 1JN
1h 10m incl. Q&A
Venue is wheelchair accessible, and the event is BSL-English supported.
Tickets £5/£3

This event is supported by Falkirk Community Schools Charity Board Funding.

 

Photos credit: Tom Duffin