The Black Pirate (1926) With live piano score by John Sweeney

About this event

A new series of silent-era classics arrives at The Pound Arts Centre, all accompanied by live piano score. Note: Pianist John Sweeney will be standing in for our initially advertised performer Meg Morley. A tale of adventure on the high seas. An aristocrat joins a pirate crew in order to avenge the death of his father and, along the way, rescues a princess. This is the first major feature film to be made entirely in Technicolor and contains one of the silent screen’s most spectacular stunts. Starring the legendary Douglas Fairbanks. John Sweeney John Sweeney has played for silent film since 1990, starting at Riverside Studios in London and subsequently playing at many venues in Britain including the National Film Theatre, the Barbican Cinema, Broadway in Nottingham, the Imperial War Museum, and Watershed in Bristol. He has played for the British Silent Cinema Festival since its inception and has since 2000 been a regular pianist at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy. He is a regular performer at the Slapstick Festival of silent comedy in Bristol, and has also played at other festivals in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Slovenia. He has recorded DVDs for the BFI ('Wonderful London', parts of 'Pioneers and Primitives') and also Cineteca di Bologna ('Albert Capellani') and Edition Filmmuseum ('Crazy Cinématographe') as well as recording a soundtrack for Hitchcock's 'Downhill' for broadcast on Sky TV.