Sunday 3 May 2015

142 Golden Silents


First  watched  :  Autumn  1973

Well  Genome  has  surprised  me  here. I  remember  regularly  watching  a  programme  about  silent   movie  stars  on  a  Saturday  morning  but  I  would  have  put  it  much  earlier  than  the  latter  part  of  1973. They  were  repeats  of  a  show  first  broadcast  in  1969  in  the  evenings  and  can't  have  worked  as  a  Saturday  morning  feature  for  it  was  pulled  after  just  four  weeks  and  hasn't  been  broadcast  since.

The  programme  was  broadcast  from  the  National  Film  Theatre  and  presented  by  Michael  Bentine   who  would  lecture  in  a  fairly  straight  manner  about  a  theme  illustrated  by  plenty  of  clips  of  the  greats. Here's  where  I  first   saw  Charlie  Chaplin, Harold  Lloyd, Buster  Keaton  et  al  and  found  them  reasonably  funny.

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