This month’s movie night at Kino Babylon will take place on Friday, 24 February, starting at 12 noon SLT.
We’ll be watching a 1922 silent mystery “Sherlock Holmes” directed by Albert Parker, starring John Barrymore.
Our Kino is located in the heart of the 1920s Berlin sim, which you can reach by clicking on this link. Alternatively, IM me inworld for a teleport (abinoam.resident).
Join us at Kino Babylon on Friday, 30 December 2022, for another silent movie night. We’ll be watching “The Blacksmith”, a 1922 short comedy co-written and co-directed by Buster Keaton, starring himself, Joe Robert and Virginia Fox.
The screening will start at 12 noon SLT, but if you can’t make it at that time, the film will be available on demand at Kino Babylon until 27 January 2023. The film last a little over 20 minutes.
Our Kino is located in the heart of the 1920s Berlin sim, which you can reach by clicking on this link. Alternatively, IM me inworld for a teleport (abinoam.resident).
Join us at Kino Babylon on Friday, 25 November 2022, for this month’s silent movie night. We’ll be watching “The Fall of the House of Usher”, a 1928 French film adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic story by the same title.
Directed by Jean Epstein, screenplay by none other than Luis Buñuel (and Epstein), the film is now considered one of the best adaptations of Poe. The leading roles are played by Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt and Charles Lamy.
The screening starts at 12 noon SLT, and if you can’t make it on that day, the film will be available on demand at the Kino until 23 December.
Kino Babylon is located in the heart of the 1920s Berlin sim, which you can reach by clicking on this link.
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.
All events take place at Kino Babylon in the 1920s Berlin sim, starting at 12 noon SLT.
25 March 2022: “Man with a Movie Camera” (experimental documentary, Ukraine/USSR, 1929, dir. Dziga Vertov)
29 April 2022: “The Matinee Idol” (comedy, USA, 1928, dir. Frank Capra)
27 May 2022: “The Seashell and the Clergyman” (experimental, France, dir. Germaine Dulac)
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December 2021: no scheduled movie night – but the film “Santa Claus” (1925, dir. Frank E. Kleinschmidt) available on demand at Kino from 24 December 2021 until 27 January 2022.
28 January 2022: “Kohlhiesel’s Daughters” (1920, comedy, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
25 February 2022: “The Pony Express” (1925, Western, dir. James Cruze)
Our events start at 12 noon SLT; please check this post from time to time, as I’ll be updating it with any changes.
To reach Kino Babylon in the 1920s Berlin sim, please follow this SLurl. Please be mindful of the general sim rules regarding the use of period clothing etc.
Dear friends of Kino Babylon, here’s the latest schedule of our silent movie nights.
24 September 2021: “The Bells” (crime; 1926, dir. James Young)
29 October 2021: “The Tell-Tale Heart” (horror; 1928, dir. Charles Klein, Leon Shamroy)
26 November 2021: “Peter Pan” (adventure; 1924, dir. Herbert Brannon)
Our events start at 12 noon SLT; please check this page, as I’ll be updating it with any changes.
To reach Kino Babylon in the 1920s Berlin sim, please follow this SLurl. Please be mindful of the general sim rules regarding the use of period clothing etc.
Join us on Friday, 24 September, for this month’s silent movie night at Kino Babylon. Starting at the usual time, 12 noon SLT, we’ll be watching a thrilling silent crime movie “The Bells”, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff.
Directed by James Young, the film was released in 1926, and is one of several adaptations of an original play written in 1876 by French authors Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian under the title “Le Juif Polonais” (The Polish Jew). There’s murder, mesmerism, hallucinations and nightmarish dreams…
Just the right stuff to usher in the Halloween season! 🙂
To reach us, please follow this SLurl to the 1920s Berlin sim – Kino Babylon is located in the very centre of the city, opposite Hotel Adlon. Please be mindful of general sim rules regarding period clothing etc.
Hope to have you with us!
Join us on Friday, 27 August 2021, for our third annual Sommerkino! It will take place at the lovely Wannsee beach in the 1920s Berlin sim.
Starting at 12 noon SLT, we’ll be watching “The Saphead”, a 1920 silent comedy that was Buster Keaton’s very first feature film, co-starring Beulah Booker.
There will be free popcorn and cold drinks, and we’ll probably go for a swim afterwards, so do bring a bathing suit – or come in one, it will be a hot day!
If you can’t make it for the movie night, the film will be available on demand at Kino Babylon until 30 September.
P. S. If you are not familiar with the sim and have no idea how to get to Wannsee, feel free to IM me inworld at abinoam.resident for a TP invite. Please respect the sim rules regarding period clothing etc.
This month’s silent movie night at Kino Babylon will take place on Friday, 25 June, starting at 12 noon SLT (2100 CET). We’ll be watching the silent western “Wolf Lowry”, starring William S. Hart and Marjery Wilson, directed by William S. Hart. It was released in 1917, as lasts 51 minute. The version we’ll be watching comes with embedded German subtitles.
For more details about the film, please have a look at the following IMDB entry.
To reach us, please follow this SLurl to the 1920s Berlin sim – Kino Babylon is located in the very centre, opposite Hotel Adlon.
Hope to have you with us!
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