Tickets - £10 Available here
Tickets will also be available from the Customer First Center, Whitley Bay from 30 July
Tickets - £10 Available here
Tickets will also be available from the Customer First Center, Whitley Bay from 30 July
The Mediators
This year the Mediators are celebrating 10 years of providing live sound tracks to silent movies for the Whitley Bay Film Festival. Electronic musicians, Steve Brown, Andy Eardley and Oran Milstein blend old time sounds with modern digital technology to provide a unique audio visual experience.
The Stephenson Steam Railway
Stephenson Steam Railway is a living celebration of the North East’s proud railway heritage. Nestled at Middle Engine Lane in North Tyneside, it carries forward a story that stretches back more than 200 years—from the earliest wooden waggonways and coal haulage to the dawn of passenger travel and the modern preservation movement.
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Special thanks to the staff and volunteers at Stephenson Steam Railway, North East Museums for hosting this event.
Refreshments will be available from the museum cafe.
100th Anniversary Event
Buster Keaton's
The General
with a Live Electronic Soundtrack
by The Mediators
at the Stephenson
Steam Railway Museum
The General (1926)
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Many critics consider The General to be the last great comedy of the silent era, and it consistently ranks as one of the greatest comedies of all time on international critics' polls. and what a fantastic setting for this 100th anniversary screening, the Stephenson Steam Railway Museum!
Buster Keaton was arguably the greatest comedian of the silent era and certainly one of the funniest and most talented performers to ever work in the movie business. The General is his masterpiece: co-directed, co-written, co-produced and starring Keaton, it is a side-splitting document of a comedy genius at the peak of his powers and boasts some of the finest slapstick set pieces ever committed to film.
Western & Atlantic Railroad train engineer Johnnie Gray (Keaton) loves two things: his sweetheart Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) and his prized locomotive, The General. When the Civil War breaks out, Johnnie intends to enlist in the Confederate Army, but is rejected – ending his budding relationship with Annabelle. As the war rages on, though, spies working for the Union steal Johnnie’s beloved engine and inadvertently kidnap Annabelle, leading him to doggedly pursue them both across enemy lines.
When: Thursday 17th September
Doors open 7.00pm
Event starts 7.30pm
Where: Stephenson Steam Railway Museum
Middle Engine Ln, Wallsend, North Shields NE29 8DX