The Thousands

Lads and lasses grab Nan, Pop, or the oldest person you can find and head to the State Library for Australia’s Silent Film Festival. This unique event showcases some of the finest silent cinema of the early 1900s, with dishy film icons such as Greta Garbo and Douglas Fairbanks Snr bound to set hearts a flutter, both young and pacemakered.

Notable program entries include the Buster Keaton civil war action film The General, Fritz Lang’s gothic fantasy Destiny and a collection of four classic slapstick shorts featuring comedy screen legends Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy. Also screening is the surviving sixteen minutes of the world’s first feature film – The History of the Kelly Gang – made in Australia in 1906.**There is live musical accompaniment to most of the films helping to create an antique film atmosphere. You would have to be a right nong not to appreciate it. Do it for Nan.