Apr20

Silent Cinema Galway - 'Harold Lloyd's Birthday Party!'

Silent Cinema & Film Studio, Galway City

On the occasion of Harold Lloyds 131st birthday, we invite you to the screening of his four shorts: Never Weaken (1921), Captain Kidds Kids (1919), Pistols For Breakfast (1919), and The Big Idea (1917). In Never Weaken, a man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse. In Captain Kidd`s Kids, after a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates. In Pistols For Breakfast, a young man eats breakfast with his friend. As a restaurant "regular" with a pistol threatens to eat everyone's bacon, the two friends flee.

Finally, in The Big Idea, a clerk in a failing antique store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl. Screening with live piano accompanimentby Mila Maia.

€10 - €27