The Big Smoke: Films from a Lost London 1896-1945

From June 2009

Experience London life in a bygone age, from the bustle of the Victorian commute to the ordeal of the Blitz, with this programme of silent films from the BFI National Archive - brought to dazzling life with a newly-commissioned score and featuring a selection of treasures from the Imperial War Museum and London's Screen Archives.

Score composed and performed by celebrated pianist James Pearson with the Ronnie Scott's All Stars.

All Films
Blackfriars Bridge
Old London Street Scenes
City of Westminster
The Smallest Car in the Largest City in the World (extract)
Hoxton... Saturday July 3rd, Britannia Theatre (extract)
London Street Scenes c.1920s (extract)
The Fugitive Futurist: A Q-riosity by "Q"
Cosmopolitan London (extract)
The Port of London (extract)
London's Contrasts (extract)
The Open Road (extract)
Wedding at Belmont Free Church
Scenes at Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner Underground
Some Activities of the Bermondsey Borough Council (extract)
Views from Hackney Library Roof (extracts)
Lunch-Hour (extract)
Colour on the Thames (extract)
Britain at War: The London Blitz (extracts)
Amateur Film by Lieutenant Sidney Sasson (extracts)