ELIZABETH-JANE BALDRY harp
CHRIS SERLE special guest

Herbert Brenton's Peter Pan was released in 1924 by Paramount Pictures and was the first film adaptation of J M Barrie's timeless play Peter Pan.

One of the most popular films of the silent era, it starred Anna-May Wong, Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, and Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell. As recently as 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film was celebrated at the time for its innovative use of special effects (mainly to show Tinker Bell).

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The live, improvised music is performed on solo harp by Britain's most celebrated 'Fairy Harpist', Elizabeth-Jane Baldry. Her extensive research into fairy harp music has led to a revival in the medium. Many of her compositions have been used by ITV, the BBC and by Irish, Japanese and Canadian film and television companies. This screen version, justly considered a silent classic, is set off perfectly by the ethereal music of the harp.

The performance includes a pre-show discussion on the Victorian fascination with fairies and fairy culture with presenter, reporter and actor Chris Serle.

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Bristol Silents was formed in August 2000 to promote and celebrate silent cinema and has gone from strength to strength with national tours of silent programmes and the hugely successful Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival establishing an international reputation for live silent film events.

'Bristol Silents has done a great thing for silent films. People as a whole have forgotten how wonderful they could be – how wonderful they still are.' PAUL MERTON

'Bristol Silents is an inspired idea. It is the first time anyone has linked their community to the lost art of silent films ...'
KEVIN BROWNLOW