Silent movie night – December 2019

Please join us in Second Life for a special Christmastide silent movie night. As always, we’ll be meeting on the last Friday in the month – this time it’s 27 December – in the 1920s Berlin sim, namely at its Kino Babylon. Starting at 1 pm SLT, we’ll be watching a relatively short silent (half an hour long), “A Christmas Carol” (a.k.a. “Scrooge”), based on Charles Dickens’ celebrated tale.

This British movie was released in 1923 by the British & Colonial Kinematograph Company, starring Russell Thorndike and Nina Vanna, directed by Edwin Greenwood.

As this will be our last get-together in 2019, after the movie we’ll celebrate a bit over mulled wine. Do join us if you can at this SLurl. (If you have any trouble finding us, don’t hesitate to IM me: abinoam.resident)

Last Friday we ended the season 2017/2018 at the Odie Cinema. Silent movie nights will resume in September!

Silent movie night: “The Ghost Train” (1927)

This June we’re going to get to know a bit about the silent cinema of Mexico!

The first film we’ll watch is “El tren fantasma” (The Ghost Train), released in 1927. It is considered to be one of the best early Mexican movies, directed by Gabriel García Moreno – the leading Mexican filmmaker of the silent era.

The film is a thriller about a gang of bandits sabotaging a railway line, with a lot of stunts and action! 🙂 Intertitles are in both Spanish and English.

As always, we’ll meet at 1 pm SLT, and the movie lasts about 70 minutes. SLurl: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odie/73/234/53

Hope you can join us!

Silent Movie Night: The General (1926)

Join us for the next silent movie night at Refugium. It will take place on Friday, 10th June at 1pm SLT at the following Second Life location: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/East%20Fjord%20Grieg/163/186/25. We’ll be watching The General, starring Buster Keaton.

Orson Welles considered it “the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest civil war film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made.” This story of an American civil war train hijack – inspired by the true event, the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862 – is filled with crazy stunts, humour and a touch of romance. One of Keaton’s legendary performances. Duration: 1hr 19min.

Please share the invitation with anyone you think might be interested.

Snapshots from the public viewing of the 1919 silent movie “Different from the Others” (”Anders als die Andern), the first in a series of old films to be shown at monthly movie nights on Norgaard Island.