Since the launch of the silent movie nights in Second Life, it has been our tradition to present silent horror films in the weeks leading up to Halloween. In keeping with that tradition, this year we’ll be watching Der Hund von Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles), the very first film adaptation of this Sherlock Holmes novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Released in 1914, it was directed by Rudolf Meinert, starring Alwin Neuß as Holmes, Friedrich Kühne as Stapleton, and Hanni Weisse as Laura Lyons. Long considered lost, luckily the film has been rediscovered.
If you want to brush up on the celebrated novel, here’s the link to the free e-book, available in several different digital formats (although I should add that the film we’ll be watching doesn’t follow it closely).
The screening is scheduled to take place on Friday, 28 October 2022, starting at 12 noon SLT at the Wannsee beach in the 1920s Berlin sim. If you get lost in the sim and have no idea where the Wannsee lake is, don’t hesitate to IM me inworld at abinoam.resident and ask for a teleport).
The film will be available on demand at our usual spot, Kino Babylon, until 24 November.
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