Doors: 7pm till 11pm
Entry Price: £5 at the door
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The Lucky Dog Picturehouse specialise in screening classic silent films with original, era-specific live musical soundtracks composed and performed by some of the UK’s finest young musicians. Since its inception in 2012, The Lucky Dog Picturehouse has performed at the British Film Institute, LOCO – the London Comedy Film Festival, Wilton’s Music Hall, Standon Calling Festival, Hackney Attic and Abney Park’s Outdoor Cinema series.

Think of silent comedy and Buster Keaton will be on of the first names on people’s lips. Like Chaplin, Buster started performing from a very early age, joining his father in a comedy stage show which, more often that not, featured Keaton being thrown around by a handle sown in to his outfit. Upon seeing the young boy take a particularly death-defying tumble one day, the great Harry Houdini exclaimed “That was quite a buster!”, and ‘Buster’ Keaton was born.

Laurel and Hardy are the original odd couple and notable for their popularity through the silent era to the ‘talkies’. Stan Laurel is a brit with incredible comic connections, starting out in the same clog-dancing ensemble as Charlie Chaplin, and later going on to be a Chaplin impersonator before getting his big break in The Lucky Dog (1921). Oliver Hardy played the villain of the piece, but we wouldn’t hear of the double act Laurel and Hardy until the late 20s when fate threw the two together once again and how glad we are!

At Stan Laurel’s funeral Buster Keaton stated “Chaplin wasn’t the funniest, I wasn’t the funniest, Stan Laurel was the funniest.” We’ll leave you to decide.

With an original era-authentic score played live by The Lucky Dog Picturehouse followed by live 1920s jazz till closing with The Picturehouse Quartet.

Doors: 7pm
Films: 7.45pm
Jazz: 9.30pm
Tickets £5
*Reseved tickets must be collected before 7.30pm; after which time they will be release to the public.