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We all know that the music can make or break our experience of a film. Even now, with special effects and 3D, the film score continues to be the thing which transports us to the world on the screen and has us on the edge of our seats. Commencing on Sunday 4 March, City Eye and Turner Sims, as part of the Art at the Heart project, present The Sound of Silents, a series of events and activities which celebrate the wonderful marriage of film and music. The season will include classics of the silent era, opportunities to learn and be inspired and will reach an exciting finale on 31 March in Guildhall Square with an event which will showcase a new programme of music and short films produced specifically for the event by professional composers, music groups and students of all ages.
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Sunday 4 March
Charlie Chaplin - City Lights (1931)
Director: Charlie Chaplin | 83 minutes | Cert U
Director: Charlie Chaplin | 83 minutes | Cert U
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Time: 3pm
Venue:
City Gallery Lecture Theatre
Commercial Road
Southampton SO14 7LP
Presented as part of Southampton's Musical Alphabet coordinated by Turner Sims www.turnersims.co.uk
Sunday 25 March
The Best of Bristol's Slapstick Festival
Buster Keaton's Masterpiece feature
The General (1926) plus classic shorts
For more information about this event click on the picture below
Time: 3pm
Venue:
Turner Sims
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
£10 (concessions £9, Friends £9, students £6)
Booking at Turner Sims www.turnersims.co.uk
Saturday 31 March
The Sound of Silents - Grande Finale
Join us for a fabulous day celebrating films and music, composers, live performances and bands...
With all taking place in the beautiful Groovy Movie solar-powered cinema tent which will be located on the site for Southampton's new arts complex (the old Tyrrell & Green department store) in Guildhall Square at the heart of Southampton's Cultural Quarter!
We have 3 fantastic classic features to screen. Everything will begin at
10.30 am with the 1952 MGM classic Singin' in the Rain. Ok it's not a silent but how could we resist this wonderful telling of the transition from silents to talkies. Our second film is a true gem of the silent era, Chaplin's seminal The Gold Rush, and the day will come to an end with Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein. Also not a silent, but always fun and great to watch in an audience - and so much of its style and humour plays homage to the early studio days. Timing for both The Gold Rush and Young Frankenstein will be confirmed very soon but as a guide they will commence at around 2.30/3.00pm and 7.30/8.00pm respectively.
Intermingling with these wonderful features is a a really exciting collection of short films and new musical scores. With archive treasures from Wessex Film and Sound Archive and Hampshire Cricket, artists films, animations, archive and contemporary dramas - all complemented by new music from composers, bands, choirs and even an iPad Orchestra - the day promises to provide an amazingly rich opportunity to enjoy and share in the celebration of music and film together.
Take a look at the full programme on the Sound of Silents Programme page.
... and don't forget, themed fun and costume cool is encouraged but not compulsory! We may, however, find prizes for the best appropriately themed dress- up!
Hope you can join the party!
City Eye, Tower House, Town Quay Road, Southampton SO14 2NY 023 8071 1672
We have 3 fantastic classic features to screen. Everything will begin at
10.30 am with the 1952 MGM classic Singin' in the Rain. Ok it's not a silent but how could we resist this wonderful telling of the transition from silents to talkies. Our second film is a true gem of the silent era, Chaplin's seminal The Gold Rush, and the day will come to an end with Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein. Also not a silent, but always fun and great to watch in an audience - and so much of its style and humour plays homage to the early studio days. Timing for both The Gold Rush and Young Frankenstein will be confirmed very soon but as a guide they will commence at around 2.30/3.00pm and 7.30/8.00pm respectively.
Intermingling with these wonderful features is a a really exciting collection of short films and new musical scores. With archive treasures from Wessex Film and Sound Archive and Hampshire Cricket, artists films, animations, archive and contemporary dramas - all complemented by new music from composers, bands, choirs and even an iPad Orchestra - the day promises to provide an amazingly rich opportunity to enjoy and share in the celebration of music and film together.
Take a look at the full programme on the Sound of Silents Programme page.
... and don't forget, themed fun and costume cool is encouraged but not compulsory! We may, however, find prizes for the best appropriately themed dress- up!
Hope you can join the party!
City Eye, Tower House, Town Quay Road, Southampton SO14 2NY 023 8071 1672
