The Kennington Bioscope is a regular cinema event featuring live accompaniment to silent films that takes place at the Cinema Museum.

The Bioscope presents a rarely screened gem, Bare Knees (1928), directed by Eric C. Kenton, and starring Virginia Le Corbin, Donald Keith, Forest Stanley, Jane Winton, Johnnie Walker and Maude Fulton.

Bare Knees is a flapper film that’s fun to watch just to see Virginia Lee Corbin showcasing her independence and her pretty figure. This film was made before the Wall Street crash which ushered in the Great Depression. Afterwards, flapper films quickly lost their appeal and were replaced by breezy musicals and social dramas. Roll back the clock and watch one of the fast moving, light-hearted, flapper films of the late 1920s.

Jack Hardy at Grapevine has generously allowed us to show this film in aid of the Cinema Museum.

The first part of the programme will be a screening of The Empty Cradle (1923) on a Kodascope 16mm print courtesy of the Cinema Museum. The film was directed by Burton King and stars the actress Mary Alden, the Broadway actress whose first major role was in D.W. Griffiths’ Birth of a Nation (1915).

Anyone interested in silent film should visit the website for more info and to request an invitation using the email kenbioscope@gmail.com.

Tickets & Pricing

£3 (£2 of which goes to the Cinema Museum).