FREE EVENT
FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
Film and Music
LEONARD’S BEAUTIFUL PICTURES
Time:
FRIDAY APRIL 15th
2.30pm & 5.00pm
LOCATION:
Cobargo School of Arts
Featuring:
Dean Stevenson: composer & Musical Director
Accordion: Paolo Campanari Brancondi
Guitar: Dean Gray
Ticketing Information:
This is a free event
Bookings are required for this event.
‘’Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures was one of my absolute favourite things from the 2021 Ten Days on the Island festival in Tasmania. I’m delighted to bring this gem to Four Winds!”
Presented by Four Winds in association with the National Film and Sound Archive.
The whole family will enjoy this quirky live music twist on the Edwardian fantasy world of silent films.
Over a century ago, the ground-breaking vaudeville entrepreneur, Leonard Corrick, first delighted and amazed Australian audiences with the original Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures – a treasure trove of hand-tinted silent films promising extraordinary visions of faraway lands, stage magic and fantastical imaginings. On Leonard’s death, the Corrick family stored his precious collection in a Tasmanian garage, where they languished for over 70 years….until now.
Newly digitised by the National Film and Sound Archive, Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures are ready to thrill a new generation of Australian audiences. You, your children and grandparents alike will adore these magical films enhanced by Dean Stevenson’s brilliantly inspired new score, with foley effects performed live by a versatile, if eccentric, trio of musicians.
Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive Digital Restoration Program
NFSA Restores – Reviving Australia’s cinema icons
Originally commissioned by Ten Days on the Island